{"id":228691,"date":"2026-03-17T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/?p=228691"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:15:39","slug":"sacerdote-haiti-meses-sin-celebrar-eucaristia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/sacerdote-haiti-meses-sin-celebrar-eucaristia\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitian priest: \u00absometimes a year passes without celebrating the Eucharist\u00bb.\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Catholics in Haiti<\/strong> often experience a situation that is surprising in other parts of the world: they are communities of the faithful who spend months without being able to celebrating and living the Eucharist<\/a>. Hugues Paul<\/strong>, from the diocese of Jacmel, has known this reality since his childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That experience was decisive in his life. \u00abIn these church communities, sometimes almost a year can go by without the celebration of Holy Mass,\u00bb he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was precisely this shortcoming that awakened in him the vocation<\/a>. He grew up in a small community that in Haiti is known as the chapel<\/strong>, a church attached to a parish where, in the absence of priests, the faithful keep the faith alive with celebrations of the Word led by lay people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God called him to help as a priest in his vineyard.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u00abNormally there is a pastoral agent, whom we call the chapel director, in charge of presiding over celebrations of the Word in the absence of the priests\u00bb. In the midst of this reality, Fr. Hughes Paul felt God's call: \u00abIt was in this context that I felt God's call to lend a hand in his vineyard, to help his people to encounter him and to live the faith in a deeper way where the Eucharist was at the center\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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