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>Episcopal News Service
>February 8, 2010

Presiding Bishop pays pastoral visit to Haitian bishop

'You have already had your Good Friday,' Jefferts Schori tells Duracin

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
paid a poignant visit to Port-au-Prince Feb. 8 to survey with
Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin the devastation
wrought by the Jan. 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake.

After climbing over the ruins of the diocese's Cathédrale Sainte
Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral), the presiding bishop turned to
Duracin and said "You should skip Lent this year; you have already had
your Good Friday."

"Yes, we can all sing Alleluias together," Duracin replied, according
to the Rev. Lauren Stanley, who accompanied Jefferts Schori on her
five-hour visit.

Pointing to some of the cathedral's 13 bells that were visible among
the ruins and that appeared to be salvageable, Jefferts Schori said
"they will ring again" and that the cathedral "will rise again,"
according to Stanley.

While at the cathedral, Jefferts Schori and Duracin said prayers at
what the Haitian bishop is calling the diocese's "open-air cathedral,"
which consists of some plastic sheeting stretched over a frame of
two-by-fours that shelters some pews rescued from the cathedral ruins.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_119285_ENG_HTM.htm