THE PRISON DESERT IN MAY
Dear generous supporters,
I am happy to report that Bubba is getting his TV as a result of your kind prayers and donations. I am hopeful that if things work out, he will also soon be cellmates with a young man who is very interested in learning about the Catholic Church. Contact with Deacon John Johnson of the Tulsa Diocese also makes me hopeful that Bubba will soon be receiving regular sacraments and preparation for Confirmation. Bishop Slattery of Tulsa makes visits to the prisons in his diocese and administers the rite of Confirmation.
I am slowly shifting the focus of DPM to center on men who are Catholics or who are genuinely interested in learning about the Church and its teachings. The experience of the last fourteen months has led me in this direction. After I heal from the installation of a pacemaker, I hope to resume prison visitation in Tennessee. I am also happy to report that correspondence with men interested in becoming Benedictine Oblates or who have already entered that status is going very, very well.
Compendium Catechisms, Shorter Christian Prayer (a short version of the Office), Father Ciszek’s He Leadeth Me, Jean Antier’s Charles Foucauld, GK Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, Orwell’s 1984, and other solid books and pamphlets are now the main assistance to prisoners.
DPM continues to need stamps (!), ink, gasoline, and prayers!
God bless you. Bubba blesses you!
