Creer y actuar para renacer

Prison Ministry and the Environment: “From Garbage to Compost - Belief and Action Towards Reconstruction” Fr. Paul Francis Morrissey, O.S.A. spiritual director and prison chaplain I only know a few phrases in Spanish –Hola! Amigo! and “Mucho trabajo y poco dinero!” (I learned this from a Puerto Rican woman who was bussing dishes in the restaurant where we worked when I was 14 years old. We made 75 cents an hour). Yes, for all of us, life can be: ¡ Mucho trabajo y poco dinero! Before we continue, we have to ask ourselves, as I do when I go to celebratemass at prison, tobe silent for a fewmoments, to let any anxieties and preoccupations go, to take a breath together… to acknowledge and breathe in the Holy Spirit who wants to help us… I am very glad to be with you on your beautiful island! I was asked by President Jorge Vélez Arocho to speak about prison ministry. When I read the program –in Spanish– it seemed to me that the conferences were mostly related to the hurricane, and the environment, and our call as Catholics to believe and act towards reconstruction. How can I talk about prison ministry in such a setting, I wondered? I thought of all the headlines in the U.S. at the time of hurricaneMaria. The pictures of Puerto Rico and its people devastated by the hurricane. Your whole island without electric power. When I prayed about this, gradually a link came to me: After hurricane Maria, the island of Puerto Rico became an island of people without power. In some way, you are like the people I meet in prison who also have no power. Yes, prisoners and Puerto Ricans

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