Dear God, I am praying to you now for {name}, as I have in the past. Please make his nightmares go away! Stop the screams of dying people within his mind. Make {name} whole again in body and in soul. Make his pain stop and the scars disappear. Forgive him, Lord, for all the people he was involved with killing—and for all the people that he wanted to kill. Please eliminate the bitterness from within his heart. Allow {name} to become...
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All-powerful, most holy, most high and supreme God Holy and just Father Lord, King of Heaven and Earth we thank you for yourself for through your only Son with the Holy Spirit You have created all things spiritual and corporal and, having made us in your own image and likeness, you placed us in paradise. And through our own fault we have fallen. And we thank you for as through your Son you created us so also, through your holy love,...
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O God, I thank thee for all the creatures thou hast made, so perfect in their kind— great animals like the elephant and the rhinoceros, humorous animals like the camel and the monkey, friendly ones like the dog and the cat, working ones like the horse and the ox, timid ones like the squirrel and the rabbit, majestic ones like the lion and the tiger, for birds with their songs. O Lord give us such love for thy creation, and all thy...
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Many are becoming more aware of the existence of prison volunteers through friends, media, and the Yellow Ribbon project. But mentioning the Roman Catholic Prison Ministry (RCPM) still draws curious responses from many Roman Catholics include: What’s that? Is there one? What do you do? Which parish are you from? It beckons therefore to inform our community of our mission, what do we do, who we are, and where we are heading. Our...
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Prison Fellowship trains and inspires churches and communities — inside and outside of prison — to support the restoration of those affected by incarceration. We equip correctional leaders, volunteers, and incarcerated men and women to make prisons more rehabilitative places; we advocate for a more restorative criminal justice system; and we collaborate with churches and local service providers to support former prisoners, their...
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