Fr. Matthew and his team are trying some new initiatives to grow the Prison Oblate Ministry.  The vast majority of our oblate population are men, largely due to the historical fact that all of the prisons around Cañon City are men’s prisons. 

• CONTACT HAS BEEN MADE WITH WOMEN’S PRISONS, YIELDING SOME GROWTH. 

• THE PROGRAM CONTINUES TO REACH OUT TO MORE PRISONS IN NEW STATES TO HELP BRING THE INCARCERATED TO FIND GOD. 

• CATHOLIC CLERGY AND PRISON CHAPLAINS HAVE BEEN, AND CONTINUE TO BE, VERY ENCOURAGING, AND ARE HELPING US IDENTIFY CATHOLIC INMATES. 

In order to carry out this work and continue growing our program we need your support.

Many men and women continue to suffer, and their lives could be transformed through your help. 

• WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR PEN PALS TO HELP FORM A BOND WITH THOSE INCARCERATED. 

• WE ALWAYS NEED DONATIONS OF BOOKS, BIBLES, INSPIRATIONAL LITERATURE, ROSARIES, SCAPULARS, MEDALS, AND THE LIKE. 

• WE CAN ALWAYS USE YOUR DONATIONS OF CASH TO FUND OUR NEWSLETTER AND OUR LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGNS. 

• LASTLY, AND MOST IMPORTANT, PLEASE PRAY FOR US, AND FOR OUR INCARCERATED BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
  BEING EVER MINDFUL OF THE WORDS OF GOD IN PSALM 69:

For the Lord hears the needy, and does not despise those of His who are prisoners.

THIS IS A 100% VOLUNTEER EFFORT, NO ONE RECEIVES COMPENSATION.

The Lord meets us wherever we are and as we are.  He wants us to recognize our God-given human dignity, and to use that as a basis of building a constructive life.  He loves us, and forgives us, and will shower us with His graces, for a mere prayer.