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bro. Douglas Greer OP
Instructor of Theology
Fenwick High School
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Extracurricular:
- The Fenwick Preaching Team
- The Lyceum (Philosophy Club)
- The KAIROS Retreat
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Academic Degrees:
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B.A., (Political Science), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 1991.
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M.A., (Moral Theology; Systematic Theology; Biblical Languages & Literature), Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL, 2000.
Thesis: "Charity, Prudence, & the Natural Law: Another Narrative Interpretation of Thomistic Ethics"
Professional Degree:
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M.Div., Aquinas Institute of Theology & Ministry, St. Louis, MO, 2005.
It's best to contact me via E-mail:
E-Mail: dgreer@fenwickfriars.com
Telephone: 7 0 8 . 3 8 6 . 0 1 2 7 ( Ext. 2 1 8 ) |
The bronze statue of the Mawon Inconnu fronts the Palay Nasyonal in Haiti, West Indies. The statue & the palace are in ruins today.
The statue’s name means ‘unknown escapee [slave];’ it’s a tribute to Boukman, a holy man, who sounded the lanmbi shell to call his people to revolution in 1791. I woke to the haunting sound of the lanmbi every morning when I lived on the Central Plateau in the village of Pandyassou.
The Haitians were the first subjected people of the Western Hemisphere to secure independence (1804), twenty-eight years after the Colonials defeated the British Empire, to begin the political experiment that is today the United States of America.
And, the people of Haiti have been paying for it ever since.
Let's help, hope, pray, & work, that the Haitian people might rise again with their ancestors---men & women & children from West Africa, who liberated a people, whose names we’ll never know.
Let’s pray & work, conscious of the command of Jezikri (Jesus the Christ), & in memory of Boukman, to help the Haitian people rise from rubble.
We are, after all, the keepers of our brothers & sisters, fathers, mothers, friends, & ancestors.
The gran moun-yo (the wizened, old men & women) speak in proverbs:
“No one hears the cry of the poor, or the sound of a wooden bell.”
Anpil men, chay pa lou.
Many hands make a burden light.
W pa ka manje gonmbo avek yon sel dwet.
You can’t eat okra with just one finger.
Woch nan dlo-a pa konnen doule woch nan soley-la.
The rock in the water doesn’t know the pain of the rock in the sun.
Pa gen lapriye san “Amen.”
There’s no prayer without an “Amen.”
PLEASE do something prayer-full & practical for Haiti.
If you'd like to assist our Dominican sister parish in Baudin, Haiti, WI, please contact Fr. Patrick Baikauskas OP, at St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center, Purdue University, IN (765.743.4652).
