While many people are offering thoughts and prayers to the people of Haiti and those who are there to help after this week's earthquake, there is one person in particular with Scranton connections who is making a big difference in Haiti right now.
Father Rick Frechette is a Passionist priest who appeared on ABC's World News Thursday night and on Good Morning America Friday morning. If the name sounds familiar, you may have heard him at Saint Ann's Novena in Scranton.
When the earthquake struck Haiti, Frechette was in Connecticut with his mother who has cancer.
"His mother said, 'Go, go be with your people.' And so he went there," said Father Richard Burke of Saint Ann's Basilica.
His mother said that with good reason. Not only is Father Rick a priest, he's also a doctor.
"For now, it's wound management, pain management, infection control, and wait for the competent help to come," Father Frechette told ABC News.
Frechette and the children's hospital he opened in Port-au-Prince a year ago were featured on World News with Diane Sawyer Thursday night,and then on Good Morning America Friday morning.
Frechette said the Novena at Saint Ann's in Scranton several times, most recently this summer. The latest update from Frechette on the website www.thepassionists.org said the hospital has sustained serious damage:
"We spent the rest of the time managing the countless people with serious and severe wounds, coming to our hospital. We are doing our best for them, under trees and in the parking lot with ever diminishing supplies. Diesel is running out. Will be out in two days if we don't find a solution, which will mean no power at all. The hospital is without water since there is some broken line between the well and the water tower."
JMJ Catholic Radio will be playing his interview from this past summer all next week on the air, as they pray for his safe return.
"We can't imagine someone giving their life as he did, but anybody that has met Father notices a very unselfish way, almost like that of Mother Teresa," said host Carol Niewinski.
Father Rick Frechette is a Passionist priest who appeared on ABC's World News Thursday night and on Good Morning America Friday morning. If the name sounds familiar, you may have heard him at Saint Ann's Novena in Scranton.
When the earthquake struck Haiti, Frechette was in Connecticut with his mother who has cancer.
"His mother said, 'Go, go be with your people.' And so he went there," said Father Richard Burke of Saint Ann's Basilica.
His mother said that with good reason. Not only is Father Rick a priest, he's also a doctor.
"For now, it's wound management, pain management, infection control, and wait for the competent help to come," Father Frechette told ABC News.
Frechette and the children's hospital he opened in Port-au-Prince a year ago were featured on World News with Diane Sawyer Thursday night,and then on Good Morning America Friday morning.
Frechette said the Novena at Saint Ann's in Scranton several times, most recently this summer. The latest update from Frechette on the website www.thepassionists.org said the hospital has sustained serious damage:
"We spent the rest of the time managing the countless people with serious and severe wounds, coming to our hospital. We are doing our best for them, under trees and in the parking lot with ever diminishing supplies. Diesel is running out. Will be out in two days if we don't find a solution, which will mean no power at all. The hospital is without water since there is some broken line between the well and the water tower."
JMJ Catholic Radio will be playing his interview from this past summer all next week on the air, as they pray for his safe return.
"We can't imagine someone giving their life as he did, but anybody that has met Father notices a very unselfish way, almost like that of Mother Teresa," said host Carol Niewinski.
