Joe

This post has an update on our leadership for the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix Prison Ministry. Some of you may know this already. I also want to make sure you all are aware of the report that the Chaplain requires from you for each service you provide. These reports are Read more…

We get request for one-on-one counseling at Watkins Jail, and currently we aren’t able to fulfill all of them. The guys really appreciate getting these visits, and they are rewarding for us volunteers. Why do they want a one-on-one visit? There are many reasons. They may be in a pod that doesn’t have Catholic services. Or they may want to talk more in depth about the faith, and their problems, than they can at the larger service.

Welcome to the updated You Visited Me website. The website is exclusively for the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix Jail and Prison Ministry volunteers at the Maricopa County Watkins Jail. This website was previously used for the Lower Buckeye Jail, but, since we no longer serve at that jail, it has been updated to be used for Watkins Jail.

I thought you might be interested in a recent article in the Catholic Sun about seminarians who are working with Kevin in Prison Ministry this summer. If you haven’t seen the article, I think you will like it. Here is a link to it:https://thesoulfulcatholic.com/welcoming-the-boundless-energy-and-noise-of-youth/

You are all invited to the Prison Ministry Workshop. See below for details.

This post has the new Prison Ministry Newsletter, hot off the presses!

It’s been a while since we’ve had a post on our Diocesan Jail Ministry website for Lower Buckeye Jail. Unfortunately, I don’t have any news for you about when we will be able to return to services at the jail. This post is to update you about the Kolbe Mission, the new Kolbe Mission website, and an upcoming concert to support the Kolbe Mission.

This post has the first edition of our new Diocesan Prison Ministry Newsletter! By the way, the poem in the newsletter is from a man that used to come to our LBJ services, before he was sentenced, and went to the DOC.

This post gives Angel’s Testimony. Angel was an inmate at LBJ who attended our Catholic religious service for about 1.5 years. Rick and I looked forward to seeing Angel. He always participated in our scripture discussions, and was passionate, but also respectful and courteous. There were time when he was down in the dumps, and very quiet, which was out of character for him. I would ask him “Are you OK – it’s not like you to be so quiet”. He would just laugh. But I knew from discussions that Angel had a tough life before his incarceration, and that he was dealing with his personal situation and problems.