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TUCSON- There was a special mass Wednesday morning at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church on Tucson's eastside.

Students at the church's school presented a big check to help Haiti.

Msgr. Thomas Cahalane started the mass by telling the congregation, "We are most grateful for the ways in which the seed of God's love is taking root in your hearts."

For several years the congregation at Our Mother of Sorrows has supported a parish and hospital in northwestern Haiti.

Just since the earthquake, the church has donated $25,000. Children at Our Mother of Sorrows School raised $5,000 of it.

At mass, Mark Babicke, the student body president, stood up front and said, "We would like to present this check on behalf of the student council." Babicke says, "We handed out envelopes to all the students and we just said put whatever you can in there. If you can't give any money, then write a small prayer."

Babicke presented the check to physicians Drs. Scott and Dynse Wilson. Every summer the Wilsons, who are church members, go to Bombardopolis, Haiti to work at a hospital that the church supports there.

Bombardopolis is in Haiti's northwestern area. That area wasn't hit by the earthquake. But earthquake victims are pouring in. Scott Wilson says, "It's estimated some 200,000 refugees have of necessity left Port-au-Prince and perhaps 2,000 have arrived to Bombardopolis."

Dynse Wilson says, "They {hospital staff} need to purchase food to feed the patients that are there, to purchase diesel fuel to run the generators for the hospital." Our Mother of Sorrows considers Bombardopolis a sister parish and also supports a school there.