Dear Friends of Cross Roads Community

Over the past three years we have had over three thousand people come to us in need of prayer. The Mass, Rosary, Exposition, Divine Office, etc. that I do each day is always offered for these people. Their needs are generally desperate. They include young people in jail, children in hospital, victims of physical, emotional and sexual abuse and the general chaos caused to parents and other siblings as a result of addiction. The need for spiritual help is paramount and each day the need intensifies for a more spiritual response.

Hence, the reason I am writing this letter is to ask for spiritual support by way of prayer, without which Cross Roads Community would be ineffective. I value your friendship and prayerful support. It is my desire to initiate a large scaled prayer network within our Archdiocese and we can be proud of this fact.

What I ask is that each person pledge one hour per week in prayer for this cause. Whether that is 15 minutes 4 times a week, 30 minutes twice a week or whatever suits your prayer schedule.

It is my intention every few days that Cross Roads Community will send via conventional mail or email to you first names of all people coming to us needing your prayers. It is suggested that you place these names in your prayer corner and pray for them for three months. It is not necessary to read these names every time you pray, but simply during prayer the first time you receive them.

Please spread the word, we need as many people praying as possible. If someone does not have email, please ring us at Cross Roads Community as we will also be starting a prayer phone network.

God Bless and may Jesus and Mary protect you.

Each member of the Cross Roads Community Prayer Network undertakes:

• To pray for one hour per week. The prayers may be said alone or with others. They may be said over the week – e.g. 10 mins each day for six days, fifteen minutes each day for four days or thirty minutes each day for two days.
• To include while saying these prayers, the clients of Cross Roads Community, their families and friends.

Privileges of being a member:

• Participation in the prayers and good works of Cross Roads Community
• Helping those battling life problems who so desperately need , hope, to feel God’s love and your assistance
• One Mass will be offered for the friends of Cross Roads Community Prayer Network every three months

Prayer for the Addicted

Lord Jesus Christ, you came for the sick, not the healthy.
Many of my brothers and sisters have fallen to addiction and
are sick and lonely. Hear my cry that just as you released Peter and Paul from the bondage of their jail 2000 years ago, so too today you will release the addicted from their bondage. We pray that you give them freedom to allow them to live in the dignity of your freedom.

Amen.