Haiti, like the rest of the world needs a "new spiritual springtime" has considered Mgr Saturné, Bishop of Jacmel, who was speaking this week at the 13th General Congregation of the Synod. The Bishop of Jacmel, focused his speech on the need to "rebuild and build" the Man in General, and particularly the Haitian man in particular, beyond the physical evils that afflict it.

March 9, 1983 on Haitian soil, Pope John Paul II said "Something must change. It is necessary that things change here," words that still resonate today in the hearts, reminded Mgr Saturné.

Today, through this synod and the proclamation of a Year of Faith, echoing the words of Benedict XVI "The line is the same," stressed Mgr Saturné, which called for a reflection face "to the misfortunes," face to the "degradation" of a context "in crisis at all levels," recalling that in Haiti, the Church wished to strengthen his pastoral work with young people, who become adults, could "engage on behalf of their faith in the society."

Because, added the Bishop of Jacmel, "the reconstruction and the construction of physical buildings is not enough, we must rebuild the Haitian people." It is necessary to have a "construction and reconstruction ad intra et ad extra, based on the evangelical values, Christians and human for a conversion of hearts and of structures with the evangel and Jesus Christ."

HL/ HaitiLibre