Prayers for Father Kieran

Please remember in your prayers Father Kieran Creagh C.P., founder of the Leratong Hospice in South Africa, who is in intensive care in hospital. Father Kieran received multiple gunshot wounds from a gang of youths on Wednesday night. One bullet is still in his lung. Otherwise he is stable but in pain. He is lucid and, according to doctors, “his condition is on the highest end of the scale it could possibly be on given the circumstances”. We can thank God that he was not killed and that he is on the mend (although fighting an infection).
Father Kieran was vocations director of the Passionists in Ireland after his ordination 1993. He then went to South Africa where he was pastor at Saulsville, a township beside Pretoria. In his parish, he saw poor people dying, many of them suffering from HIV/Aids, without adequate care. The eighteen bed Leratong Hospice Hospice opened in 2004 to provide palliative care for the terminally ill; its website says: Leratong Hospice operates in the City of Tshwane (formerly Pretoria) and specifically targets the communities of Atteridgeville and Saulsville, two African townships 20 km west of the capital. It is located in the squatter camps surrounding Attridgeville and its patients are mostly from Atteridgeville, Saulsville and Meshongoville informal settlements including: Jeffsville, Brazzaville, Siyahlala, etc. Approximately 500,000 people live in the locality. However, the hospice is open to all patients in need of palliative care especially the most disadvantaged.
Here is Father Kieran with patients, staff and volunteers at the Hospice.