Clinica MAXEÑA 2018

                                                            A VERY SPECIAL CHILD                                             WENT HOME TO GOD KARLA GUARCHAJ WAS 16 YEARS OLD.  THIS WEEK SHE DIED FROM LEUKEMIA IN A HOSPITAL IN GUATEMALA CITY.  THERE IS EXCELLENT HOSPITALS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN.  SHE STRUGGLED FOR THREE YEARS, ALWAYS IN GOOD SPIRIT AND WITH GREAT FAITH. SHE WAS A SPECIAL CHILD.  SHE WAS IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND LIVED IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE WITH HER PARENTS AND SIBLINGS. KARLA WAS SPECIAL FOR ME.  I WAS GOD MOTHER FOR HER FIRST COMMUNION!  I GAVE HER A ROSARY  THAT HAD BELONGED TO MY MOM.  SHE IMMEDIATELY PUT IT ON!  I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE WITH HER ON THIS DAY.  SHE WAS ALWAYS SMILING.  SHE WAS NOT EMBARRASSED WITH THE LOSS OF HER HAIR FROM CHEMOTHERAPY.  HER FAMILY CARED WONDERFULLY AND WERE WITH HER WHEN SHE PASSED QUIETLY ON.  SHE SUFFERED THREE YEARS.   HER FUNERAL MASS WAS FILLED TO CAPCITY! WE HAVE THREE OTHER CHILDR

ASUNCIÓN IS A MISSIONARY, CATHOLIC JUNIOR -SENIOR -HIGH SCHOOL AND "BACHEORATO". STUDENTS ARE PREPARED TO GO ON TO UNIVERSITY LEVEL.  THIS INSTITUTE  WAS STARTED BY MISSIONARY PRIEST, OF THE THE DIOCESE OF HELENA MONTANA, PADRE JAMES HAZELTON OF MONTANA, 23 YEARS AGO.  THERE ARE PRESENTLY OVER 200 STUDENTS.  THIS INSTITUTE IS NOW PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL JESUIT PROJECT,  "FE Y ALEGRIA"!  THIS PROJECT PROVIDES FREE TUITION FOR STUDY AND THE PROFESSORS ARE PAID BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.  THIS INSTITUTE OF STUDY IS TRULY A BLESSING FOR THE POPULATION OF THE AREA WE SERVE! DEACON MICHAEL SEIPP STANDS WITH THE ADMINISREATION OF THE INSTITUTE!!  THE OTHER PICTURE IS OF THE FOUNDER, FATHER JAMES HAZELTON!!

THE COMMUNITY OF PASAC, IS A SMALL MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, ABOUT 4 KM FROM OUR MISSION HOME!  THERE WERE MANY LEADERS THERE, THAT WE HAD CONTACT WITH.  JAMES MONDLOCH, ONE OF OUR FIRST YOUNG MISSIONARY PRIESTS, FROM THE DIOCESE OF HELENA, MADE THIS HOME.  HE LEARNED THE MAYAN DIALECT OF QUICHE.  HE DIRECTED THE BUILDING OF A PARISH CHURCH AND A SMALL PARISH CLINIC.  HE WAS A FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE!  THE CHURCH HAS BEEN REMODELED AND IS BEAUTIFUL AND MUCH LARGER. AS YEARS WENT ON AN HE LEARNED MORE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND NEEDS. HE FORMED A SMALL COFFEE COOPERATIVE.  HE SOUGHT HELP FROM THE COFFEE ASSOCIATION FOR COOPERATIVES.  IT BLOOMED AND TODAY IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL COOPPERATIVE THAT HAS OVER 50 ASSOCIATES, MORE WOMEN THAN MEN..THAT WAS OVER 50 YEARS AGO AND IT STILL THRIVES AND EXPORTS ORGANIC COFFEE TO THE UNITED STATES AND ELSEWHERE!  THERE ARE SONS, DAUGHTERS, WIVES NOW LEADERS OF THIS COOPERATIVE. THEY DO ALSO SELL IN SMALL QUANTITIES TO VISITORS TODAY!  THEY HAVE OVER 800, O

"DIRECTOR OF MISSION, DEACON MICHAEL SEIPP, VISIT PASTORAL  HEALTH  PROJECT OF NEW BABIES IN THEIR FIRST MONTHS OF LIFE!!" THIS IS A PROGRAM OF PASTORAL HEALTH OF OUR CLINIC AND PARISH!! MAGALI, DIRECTOR OF THE CLINICA MAXEÑA, AND REPRESENTATIVE, AND  COMPANION OF CLINIC, FELICITA  GUARCHAJ,  HAVE TAKEN THIS PROGRAM TO  FOUR COMMUNITIES.  TODAY THEY WENT WITH OUR DEACON, MYSELF AND ANOTHER OF CLINIC, TO SHARE THE PROGRAM, IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE.  SNACKS ARE PROVIDED FOR ALL!  RECENTLY IT WAS ALSO DECIDED THAT THIS PROJECT WILL BE SHARED WITH SEMINARIANS IN THEIR LAST YEAR OF PREPARATION, WITH PARISHES THAT HAVE THIS PROGRAM OF PASTORAL HEALTH;  "PRIMER INFANCY"!! WE WELCOME THEM TO OUR PARISH AND TO THE PROGRAM OF PASTORAL HEALTH!! THEY WILL BE PRESENT ONE WEEKEND DAY EVERY TWO WEEKS. THIS CELBRATION OF BABIES WHO HAVE GIVEN BIRTH RECENTLY, WERE BLESSED BY OUR DEACON, MICHAEL,  AND GIVEN SMALL GIFTS!  WE WERE HAPPY THAT OUR VISITING DIRECTOR OF MISSION,

MISSION DIRECTOR COMES TO VISIT AND KNOW MORE OF REALITY OF  OUR LIVES AND THE PERSONS WE SERVE AND PROJECTS WE SUPPORT!   THANK YOU FOR WALKING WITH US WITH THE POOR WE SERVE IN  GUATEMALA!  OUR MISSION BEGAN IN 1964!!!  MANY OF OUR DIOCESE  HAVE SERVED HERE, VISITED THE MISSION, GIVE DONATIONS!!!  THANK YOU! OUR MISSION DIRECTOR, DEACON, MICHAEL SEIPP, OF THE DIOCESE  OF HELENA IS VISITING US FOR A WEEK!!!  OUR MISSION BEGAN IN  1964.  LITERALLY WE HAVE HELPED THOUSANDS OF FRIENDS, WHICH  WE COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT YOUR GENEROSITY!!   THANK YOU!!! MICHAEL IS VISITING OUR PROJECTS IN RELIGION, HEALTH AND  EDUCATION.  WALK WITH ME AS I SHARE SOME OF OUR REALITIES  AND PROGRESS WE HAVE SHARED WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE  MISSION. EDUCATION:  INSTITUTO ASUNCIÓN:  CATHOLIC JUNIOR, SENIOR,  HIGH SCHOOL!  OVER 300 STUDENTS, CLASSES IN WELDING, SEWING,             DORMITORY STUDENTS, SPORTS, CULTURAL, AND MUCH MORE!  THE  SCHOOL IS  SPONSORED BY THE DIOCESE OF HELENA MT.