Prepeared a parcel (package) for prisoners: food, clothing, spiritual literature ...
Handed on…
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Today, after the Liturgy in the health resort Lermontovskiy
I held a prayer service for the health in the children's department of TB hospital.
Prayed, read the apostolic letter, Gospel,
Listened to the Sermon ...
After the service, all were anointed - Get Well !
Few people want to take communion ... I do not know yet how to organize it ...
As the Lord wills – we ‘ll think, coordinate and consult ...
I thought that this place - a place of deprivation of liberty: it means - I came to the right place ...
The Service of God in the penal colony is the most important event of all ongoing, for it prepossesses prisoners’ souls to repentance and their lives – to improvement...
On sermons – repeat all the same thing: that every lie is sin. Same as deception and, and stealing...
And that one of the main conditions that the Lord will accept (host) us –is our desire not to touch the unclean (dirty) things - in any form: not to please our greediness and self-interest, not desire anything that belongs to your neighbor, and in general -not to wish anybody the evil ...
Peace to you and your loved ones!
The charity organization “Charity fund "Odigitriya"” leading its activities in Odessa, Ukraine, and the Prison Mission, working in two penal colonies, prisons and the settlement, is in deep need of a vehicles - economy class car, or small van, and utility motor vehicle - to work with prisoners who have been released from prison, the sick and the homeless, juvenile prisoners, the children who are in the 9th ward of Odessa Psychiatric Hospital №9, and
Communication - a dialogue with each prisoner of the Southern Penal Colony №51 and Odessa Detention facility №21. To to meet and talk with each inmate of these two institutions during 6 months. 14 people a day. 30 minutes per person.
Today visited the AIDS hospice in Kriva Balka (Crooked Beam.)
I walked all the patient’s rooms, talked with heavy aching.
Next week I will go to make communion and serve as a prayer for the health.
It is necessary to put in order the worship cross, which is in front of the Chapel of the hospital ...
... And in the Chapel itself some places need a lick of paint and finish in plaster.
Today the Liturgy was served in the convict colony of intensive regime .
Let us pray for peace and for Ukraine, for the soldiers, for our city, and for those who did not live to see this day.
Holy Communion took place...
Abstract from the sermon:
"We all are so far from a state when we will take with joy any event in our lives – as the one from the Lord, even such as the looting of our property.
We “sour” at home in cabinets and on shelves things that we can never wear out,
Prisoners of the convict colony of intensive regime ask for shoes of 43rd and 42 size.
Prisoners of jail also ask for sports trousers, shirts and light jackets.
Also, they also need the food products, linens (for bed and underwear), drugs
and basic necessities.
The work of the Prison Mission today is also woefully inadequate - there is a need to invite an ophthalmologist -
check the eyesight of prisoners, and order glasses for those who need them. So that they could read ...
I had a conversation with one of the police department heads.
Do You know, what is the percentage of repeated criminal offenses today?
90%!!! and a couple of years ago it was 70% ...
What does it mean?
This means that out of 900 prisoners of the convict colony of intensive regime, who were imprisoned for the first time, 810 will repeat the crime..
I will continue to do what I can do. And if these repeated offenders will be one less – the time spend and the efforts were not in wain.
