March 17,  2012                      Daily Blog                  John W                       Previous 2012 blogs 

 

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Thank you Ireland for the gift of faith in my family - from my mother's mother Anne Marie Quinn, born near Galway in 1872
who travelled from Toowoomba in Queensland to Ireland for the 1932 Eucharistic Congress

May Ireland soon be blessed with happier times....with smiling Irish eyes

Yesterday for me was a happy day....10am to 6pm spent in Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre....visiting the men in their 
rooms/cells + centre hospital (..about 30 -50 new drug addicts each day..). The little booklet "Doctor Jesus" has had
a really good reception by the men....with quite a few being physically healed after praying to Jesus...and hopefully even more given the grace to get off drugs etc

Last night being the 3rd Friday of the month, I joined the volunteer team of Fr Slawek o.m.i. (Notre Dame Parish, Kowloon)
for the distribution of some 100 rice boxes to needy people....nearly all men...most of them ex-inmates....many of them know  me from "inside"

Distribution point is outside the Yau Ma Tei clinic where the men go for their daily dose of Methadone....and where not a few drug deals are done

Over the past few 3rd Fridays....now that the men know me well....I have gone down the queue (before the rice boxes come) and put my right hand on each man's head for a silent blessing for about 15-30 seconds (...praying in my heart:
"Jesus, may he feel your love in his heart, and may your love give him hope and good health"

Last night a new development: at several stages of the queue...where "business" was being done.....the business was suspended to allow me to put my hands on the businessmen for a blessing....while they were holding their business in their hands. Some looked up at end of blessing with eyes that carried the message "If only I didn't have to do drugs"

May the love of Jesus soon help them not need business ...or Methadone!

An earlier Friday night drug reflection - from November last year

God bless!

John W

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