Redeeming The Time

Here is a report on Fr. Seraphim's recent trip to a prison with four volunteers, during which he baptized two men. Included is a description of a typical day in prison ministry and advice about who is qualified (and not qualified) for prison ministry. If you have fire in your belly, and you are adaptable to change, you are perfectly suited to prison ministry. If you are OCD, or like the expected to happen, you are not suited for prison ministry. Fr. Seraphim also uses the report as an opportunity to think about Romans 6 and about being baptized into Christ's death. Included, too, is an explanation about the oil of gladness, and chrism, and the laying on of hands, and why we blow over the oil and anoint certain parts of the body.