COVID TUESDAY  29 JULY 2021

Dear Everyone

  

FOLLOW THE FOOD – FOLLOW THE FOOD. WE MUST KEEP SLUM EDUCATION TOP PRIORITY ALIVE AND WELL. NO MATTER WHAT. BUT FIRST OFF FEED THE CHILDREN AND THEY SURELY WILL LEARN TO WRITE THEIR NAMES ‘PRETTY – LIKE’  ALONG THE WAY. THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE DOING AND THAT’S WHAT WE WANT YOU TO HELP OUR CHILDREN WITH TODAY FOLLOW THE FOOD AND FEED THE KIDS SO THEY CAN LEARN EACH DAY TO WRITE THEIR NAMES PRETTY LIKE  AS SISTER MARIA FIRST TAUGHT THEM 49 YEARS AGO. 

 

 

A proper cup of tea (or even whiskey in the ‘tay’) as you might hear mentioned in a pub in Dublin)  to thank you in the name of our bedraggled Klong Toey 4, 5 & 6 year olds, their slum kindergartens closed now for over two months.  To thank you in the name of their grannies, who are both mum & dad for so many of them, plus the lucky few with real mums & dads, but now some dads, even mums leaving  home, leaving their kids once again with their grannies, having lost their jobs; looking for work, anywhere & everywhere.  

Dear everyone,
 
I can’t possibly dream of anything more angelic than the pure innocence sounds of 270  kindergarten 4 & 5 & 6 year, mostly Buddhist (a handful of Catholics) kids chanting their daily school morning prayers ending with our beautiful Hail Mary to Our Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, whom they know loves them all. 
A few days ago, in my Easter Blessing, I promised a letter.  Here is the best that I can do.   
 

That’s what it was this morning. A glorious stroll past that wall with the cracks in it – because as the song says:  that’s where the light gets in.  And the Easter Light came in this morning.  Came for you and me.
 

That Baby Jesus, and now Child Jesus and his Mum Lady Mary & Carpenter Joseph are safe here in the slums of Klong Toey and I pray and I know they are safe in your own homes and towns and cities and that you will love and Protect them. -  And that you, as our family will help us find the poorest of the poor and ask permission from them if they will allow us to serve.  Be of service according their own rules and ethics.

Christmas Present to the Poor – Construction Site illegals.  They have nothing to give us in return.  But they trust us.  do have our love & trust:  I send my only & most precious possession to you – my child – for you to care for, to look after while I work on a job site.
 
And our Christmas present to them, and to you, is only our word.  Our Promise.  We will do the best we can.  Come and see for yourselves.