When Fr. Benedick Lazar was asked what his priority is this is his response:

Mobile Clinic at the dispensary and at the prison

We have a mission to work with poor people. Montfort’s Parish is very important in the community. Our Sister Parish St Anthony helps us very much. We must think with the pioneers who realized this relationship. I remember the committee asked me a question about my priority. I did not hesitate to answer a mobile clinic.  And the committee agreed with me.

With the medical staff, we organized the mobile clinic at the dispensary. Some pupils at the school came to take part. The staff worked with their heart. When I looked at people who came, I realized that this decision was good because we touched people who are in need.

With the medical staff, we went to the prison. This experience was extraordinary. It makes me understand this pericope of Gospel  when Jesus said : “For, I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you game me something to drink, I was stranger and you invited me in, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me” (Mt 25, 35-36).

Indeed, when we arrived at the prison, I really understood this pericope of gospel. I usually go to the prison, but not to the mobile clinic. I really feel touched by the situation of the detained at the civil prison in Port-de-Paix. Their situation is inhuman. I thought a lot. Hmmmm! They are sons and daughters of God. So, this mobile clinic allows me to understand my mission as a missionary. The detained are really in a bad situation. As Christians, it’s in the practice and in the reality that we can live the gospel. Mr Mel and Theresa, all the members of the Committee, all the faithful of the St Anthony’s Parish, your artworks are very great in God's eyes. I thank you very much for the mobile clinic. We touched sick people. Being healthy is golden. Thank you for your help!

May God bless you all!

I appreciate you!

Fr. Bénédick Lazar, smm!

Fr. Lazar with the medications purchased for the mobile clinic.

Patients waiting to be seen at the mobile clinic.