DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY
ST. VINCENT
BETHLEHEM
E-mail: creche@p-ol.com
23 April 2009
The Stars of Bethlehem
Dear Friends,
It is with deep appreciation and sincere gratitude that I thank you for your continuous kind gestures towards the deprived children of the creche of Bethlehem. You have shown great kindness and goodness towards our children, « The Stars of Bethlehem ». These children are deprived of their most basic right of belonging, and carry with them the distress and suffering of an entire population. As soon as they are born, they are abandoned like objects; but we are here to care for them and try to compensate for their misery and hardship.
Dear Friends, you have shown immense love and care regardless of race and religion, and you have received these children in your heart. In turn, Christ our Lord opens his arms and expresses his Love, as in Luke 9, 48:
« Jesus … said to them: whoever receives this young child on the basis of my name receives me too, and whoever receives me receives him also that sent me forth. For he that conducts himself as a lesser one among all of YOU is the one that is great. »
Dear Benefactor and messenger of hope, for your precious gift, please be assured of our deep gratitude and acknowledgement.
In prayer,
The blossomed flowers of Bethlehem
Sister Sophie Bouéri,
Daughter of Charity.