MIA Prayer Intention: Victims of the Fuego Volcano in Guatemala

June 12, 2018

We pray with the families of the victims, now numbering 110, of Guatemala's Fuego volcano eruption, the most most violent eruption in four decades. We pray with those whose relatives are still missing and for those whose homes and villages have been destroyed. We give thanks for the efforts of the rescue teams which in dangerous conditions have made desperate efforts to locate the missing and the dead, and for the efforts of Catholic Relief Services in helping on the ground.

We also remember in our prayers the people on Hawaii's Big island where Kilauea has been erupting continuously for over a month and where an estimated 600 homes have been swallowed by lava flows. We give thanks that no lives have been lost there.