INTENTION OF THE PIOUS UNION

«Prayer from prison»

 

Crucified Lord, look at us, we are those like you. 

Condemned. On the gallows and behind the bars of shame. Even awaiting execution, by poison, by rope around the neck, by firing squad or electric chair. This is enough for you: like You, nailed to the cross. Unlike you, we are more often guilty, even if there is no shortage of innocent people among us. Friend, if you knew the immense mystery of detention, where I am! If I saw and heard what I see within these dark walls. And I think bitterly of my loved ones. Who unjustly suffer because of me.

“I know the devil that was inside me, I was linked to Evil, my life was one of violence. But since I met the Lord, nothing has managed to make me commit an act of violence: in these 14 years on death row, Jesus, with his forgiveness, has entered my heart! If you decide that you must kill me, do so based only on the brutality of my crime, but please do not base me on me as a future risk to society, because I have changed now… I love you all, I hope my death gives you peace, of again I ask for forgiveness from the families I have affected, now I go to meet Jesus, I wait for you all in Heaven, He has already prepared a place for me".