We forgive to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld
Maxims, 330, 1665

Hi friends,

Our Springtime issue of Voices From Prison presents a story of how God is acting in the lives of people in prison. It is often a case of despair to realize that so many of our citizens are in jail (1 in 100), especially our Black people. How can it be that we settle on building more and more jails instead of schools? How can it be that so many of our young people are caught up in a world of drugs and guns? How can it be that there is so little rehabilitation that goes on in prison? Yet, in all our questioning, it is equally obvious that God is alive in prison, moving people to amazing transformations. Like St. Augustine’s Confessions, this story of God’s action needs to be told so we can hope.

Download: Voices From Prison – Issue #3

Love and hope,
Fr. Paul and the Adeodatus group

“In the evening of life, we will all be judged on love.”

“In the ineffable knowledge of God, many who appear to be outside are inside, and many who appear to be inside are outside.”

St. Augustine
De Baptismo 5,27,38

“And I talked with you as friends talk.”

St. Augustine,
Confessions, Book 9,1

“I would like to live like a river flows
Carried by the surprise of it’s own unfolding.”

John O’Donohue
From the poem “Fluent”

Quietness

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.

Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.

Escape.
Walk out like somebody suddenly born into color.

Do it now.
You’re covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side.

Die,
and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
that you’ve died.

Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.

The speechless full moon
comes out now.

–Rumi

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