Thinking Of Christmas - Oblate Mission Associates

Our hospital was originally constructed in 1965 by the
Sisters Missionaries of Our Lady of the Angels from Lennoxville,
Que., who served the mission’s medical needs with nursenuns
for 40 years, beginning in 1951, long before our arrival
(Jack MacCarthy, OMI, and myself) in 1986.
The original wiring is still in service in the older part of
the hospital, but the new 20-bed wing built in 2007 has upto-date
wiring. However, the old part has been a hazard to
our current sensitive diagnostic equipment, and worse, a fire
hazard. The urgency of the need had been heightened for the
last three years by the additional electrical requirements of the
new wing.
We were also offered (and are in the process of receiving) a
lesser but still substantial donation to the project (whose total
cost is $55,000) from a petroleum company active in the area
(perhaps anxious to repair the damaged image of petroleum
companies for environmental contamination in the wake of
the Gulf of Mexico disaster).
Fr. MacCarthy and the Oblates in charge of the parish in
Santa Clotilde, Frs. Edgar Nolasco and Roberto Carrasco, have
assumed an insistent role with the oil companies invading
our area to assume a co-ordinated and responsible role in the