Thank you for the beautiful gift of your prayers for us. The prayers of “the Suffering Servant” have great power. Sometimes the friends we lose through death have even greater power to sustain and srengthen us even though we miss their physical presence and with living friends even the tyranny of distance or incarceration cannot prevent their love and prayers going out to the one who is loved.

Your powerful writing and heroic carrying of your cross is an inspiration and a help to all who read “These Stone Walls”

I have just discovered and read through this site–be assured of my prayers and support! May God bless you this day and always, and may the light of Christ always comfort and guide you!

Alone, we can do so little, but perhaps, together with all of you other readers, we can take some “new little steps” this new year…some untravelled steps to bring freedom. God is really good at taking our “littleness” and turning it into something “big”. My first step is to write this.

My second step is to ask all of you readers to pray and consider what “new step” you could make or commit to today for this new year. Maybe we should ask….hat can WE do together this year that could make a difference for Father Gordon? Inspiration comes quietly. Let’s listen.

It is the day after Christmas and I am preparing for a funeral in a few minutes. I hear the mourners lamenting as is usual in these country parts. It will me, as people say here, “very mournful”.

Thank you for your beautiful post and the “letter that was not sent” which you decided to share this year. I feel privileged you published it. Your last line sums up everything: darkness can never ever ever overcome the light of Christ.

I offered my midnight mass for you and your intentions. Thay you may regain your freedom and testify to the Light ! On Christmas morn I prayed for so many people, especially the youth who are “free” and yet imprisoned in so many things.

Merry Christmas !

your brother priest in the missions !

Thank you for sharing your letter with us. May God’s love abound in your heart this Christmas and throughout the year.

Peace and prayers!

just wanted to let you know that I am thinking of you today christmas day and my prays are with you.

god bless you

love

Jan

Thank you so much for the post. I consider it a priviledge to be here among you and to be able to offer support however,flimsy. Please know you are in my thoughts this Christmas eve and at my church this evening I was allowed by my Reverend to lead a special prayer for you.

I have told your story far and wide! No one escapes me. Please find comfort in the fact that you are thought of with love and respect across the widest boundries of our countries. I pray that 2010 brings new hope and justice for you Father and above all freedom.

with love and blessings

Jan

To think poor Mary and Joseph were in a stable on the night of His birth such a quiet and modest entry into the world for our Saviour and how cold and empty would the world have been if he had never come.

Thank you for your wonderful example pf priestly fidelity and your uplifting writing .

Your offerings and spiritual support sustain us.

Peace be with you Fr.

Patricia I.O.L.
JMJ

As this letter was not originally intended for your blog, I consider it a privilege and a grace to have been able to read it.

You will be in my prayers. I pray you will be permitted to say a Christmas Mass but if not know that mine and my Communion will be offered for your intentions.
Have a Blessed Christmas!