Service held in the Odessa prison
in serene holiday of Christ's Resurrection.
I served in the prison hospital, in the cooler,
and the maximum level of security sector
- From prisoners sentenced to death -
life imprisonment.
Christ is Risen - for everyone!- truly risen!
Photo by Boris Buchman
In the prison hospital, there is a need - in test tubes for blood tests - with plastic screw caps ...
It is also very much needed ultrasound machine and cardiograph – it may be second-hand, but functioning.
Because if the person suddenly becomes ill – it takes too much time to reach the professionals who have the diagnostic equipment,
When it’s urgent to make diagnosis and treat ... or do surgery ...
Even more so - in the hospital, as a rule, there is always a few pregnant women,
Who also need to make ultrasound - tests ...
The Liturgy of pre-sanctified gifts was held in the AIDS hospice in Kriva Balka.
Several people partook of the Holy Mysteries of Christ in the church, but most - right in the wards ...
One of the sick, who took communion last Wednesday, is much better today, and can get out of bed, I thought he would not survive this week ...
Are great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord!
Charity organization "Charity Fund" Hodegetria "
holds spiritual, rehabilitation and social work in prisons,
supports the released from prison,
supports AIDS patients in the AIDS center --,
in the pediatric departments of several hospitals,
and assists all those in need who ask for help ...
You can participate in this activity in sector "HELP" of this site.
Patience and compassion for the sick, the needy and the prisoners ...
Prepeared a parcel (package) for prisoners: food, clothing, spiritual literature ...
Handed on…
http://mission.tyurem.net/…/tyurma-beskraynee-pole-dlya-del…
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.
