Hello Everyone,
I am asking for your help for a friend of mine who is in a critical situation.
Through the Latin Mass circles in Toronto, I’ve been blessed to have journeyed with Mr Andrew Rivera. Knowledgeful in the Catholic Mass of both the Latin Mass and the regular/Novus Ordo, he has contributed to teaching many laity and priests in carrying out the Mass with dignity and reverence in the Roman Rite. Outside the Church, Mr Rivera is a skilled graphic designer, and proud Father to a young boy around the same age as my eldest son.
However, just after Easter, a medical emergency afflicted Andrew, placing him initially in an intensive care unit (ICU) in hospital. Currently he is still in hospital in urgent care. You may read the details below in the crowdfunding link below.
In short, Andrew has a long road of recovery ahead, and between living expenses and the care for his only son, he needs help. This help is ever more urgent, as Andrew is a widower, raising his son with some family help.
A friend of his has set up a crowdfunding page to cover his foreseen living and medical expenses for a year.
Regardless of what creed, or state/stance in the Church you are, I beg of you to help my friend with support for his family and his health. Spread the link with family and friends.
https://www.givesendgo.com/andrewandson
“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.” - Teresa of Avila
Finally besides monetary donations, I ask you to pray for him and his family. Rosaries, chaplets, Mass … all prayers and thoughts, storm Heaven and the Saints, and/or the divine realm to intercede for Andrew. Also pray for ALL medical personnel whom his care is entrusted, not just doctors and nurses but technologists, therapists, workers, chaplains, professionals, service assistants, and clericals. Physical ($/Medical) help is primary, but we cannot ignore the spiritual.
In sincere hope you will be His hands, Julian Barkin.
