This past Sunday was the Feast of Christ the King and the end of the Catholic Church year. Next week the new year begins with the start of Advent.
We are instructed to be like Christ. How can we do that? We are but mere mortals. The writer of the Gospel makes it clear: feed the hungry, give to the poor, clothe the naked, and visit those in prison. We usually skimp on that last one, but they are all of that and more: sick and tired, poor and hungry, living in the street.
There are a number of organizations that I am aware of who try to do the right thing by those system-involved. They have come to realize that society cannot do it all, so they make a strong effort to educate as well as to help them develop job skills and find housing. These are:
Paulists Prison Ministry - (Rev.) Frank DeSiano 800-237-5515
The Fortune Society: Building People, Not Prisons – JoAnne Page, info@fortunesociety.org
Inner-city Scholarship Fund – 212-753-8583
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Institute of Justice and Opportunity – Ann Jacobs Justiceandopportunity@jjay.cuny.edu
SARDAA (Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America) – Linda Stalters - 240-423-9432
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David Geiger is a licensed and awarded electrical engineer who spent 7 years in psychiatric hospitals and over 40 years since 1979 in the courts as a result of his schizophrenia.