Dear Friends and Fellow Parishioners,

   We are urgently but humbly appealing to your generosity to support our newly established NICARAGUA COVID EMERGENCY FUND.

   We all know that the Covid-19 crisis has caused stress, disruption and tragedy here at home.  However, the situation is even more frightening in Nicaragua, where suffering is widespread, information is limited and resources are scarce.

   Every cent we raise will be used by Padre Tomás and Cáritas (the local equivalent of our Catholic Charities) to help ease the suffering — specifically to purchase food, medicine, masks and disinfectant supplies and to help families buy coffins to bury their dead. To make a donation, please click on this link:  https://www.osvhub.com/stmarychardon/funds/nicaragua-covid-relief 

   If you prefer to write a check, please make it payable to the parish and include “Nicaragua Covid Emergency Fund” on the memo line. Sadly, we also learned that Bishop Emeritus Bosco Vivas Robelo, who graciously welcomed several of our mission teams during their visits to Nicaragua, died recently from Covid-19.

   Thank you in advance for your support of this emergency appeal, and let us all pray for the well-being of our families, friends and communities and for those of our brothers and sisters in Christ in Nicaragua.

   For details, please contact Dale George at maridalegeo@msn.com or 440-343-0329. Once again, let’s show our friends in Nicaragua that we are with them, that our hands and hearts are truly united in hope and love.