Thursday, October 1, 2015

SVG - Where I Am Volunteering




The runway into Kingstown, SVG, airport. Not a lot of room for mistakes. 


The Kingstown Port

Downtown Kingstown SVG 

A busy market right off the main drag. 

Locally grown produce for sale.

At a distance, the poverty is almost hidden in the beautiful landscape .

The devastation of hurricanes is, unfortunately, a common happening. The poor get poorer. 
Bishop Jason Gordon's Episcopal Coat of Arms.
Notice the two smaller shields.
He is the only bishop of two dioceses in two different countries:
Bridgetown, BARBADOS and Kingstown, SVG 


St.Mary of the Assumption Cathedral and Complex, Diocese of Kingstown, SVG
SOME OF THE PRIESTS 

Father Andrew Roache
Msgr. George Bardowell
Msgr. Michael Stewart 
Father Alando Williams
Father Richard Paynter (former Anglican priest)
Daphne Paynter, Secretary to Bishop Jason Gordon and wife of Father Richard Paynter (above) 

Fergal Redmond and Martin Folan, wonderfully generous volunteers from Ireland

Kingstown street procession during their 2015 Diocesan Synod .







This is one of several students from Kenya, west Africa, who are attending medical school in SVG. We met at Easter Sunday Mass at St. Therese Church. (below)


SOME MORE CHURCHES




St. Mary School children.This school is connected to the Cathedral parish.

SOME MORE PRIESTS

Father Rex (top) has help with his three islands, a brother priest from the Philippines, Father Edmundo Caballero (below). Together they serve the islands of Canouan, Mayreau and Union Island. I hope to meet up in my December or February trips down.

Father Rex, I guess this means even more time for fishing?

Kirt Prospere
Seminarian at Saint Meinrad Seminary, Indiana, USA
studying for the Diocese of Bridgetown, Barbados, Bishop Gordon's other diocese.