Customer Services • Tel: +44 (0) 20 7640 0042 • Fax: +44 (0) 20 7640 0046 www.ctsbooks.org Thank you for the Catholic Bible. It is beautiful and has helped me with my faith. It has been a long journey and it has put me on the track to rightness, faith, hope and goodness. Mark, HM Prison, Isle of Wight CTS booklets are a lifeline for many of our poor men. RC Chaplain, Chelmsford Prison The appreciation that the prisoners are prayerfully connected to the Church helps them to keep in mind that they are not forgotten and still a valued member of the Church. RC Chaplain Category B Men’s Prison It gives Catholics on the outside responsibility to share their Faith with their less fortunate brothers and sisters who are imprisoned and in some cases these prisoners are themselves victims of circumstance and need that fellowship. RC Chaplain, Bronzefield Prison I have been in prison now for 6 years and have another six to serve. Knowing that these booklets can come every month and that there is some generous and caring person praying for me outside is very comforting’ John (aged 29) CTS booklets can be taken back to their cells by the prisoners and read during the night especially when they are struggling. RC Chaplain YOI By reading just one of the CTS booklets I have learnt a lot about my faith. I felt at peace and would like more of the same kind. Female Prisoner Category A gives a person in prison a pack of 4 booklets for their own personal use on their faith journey. The titles could include some of the books below... £10 £10 Provides a person in prison with their own Catholic Bible for personal study and prayer £50 Provides Catholic Bibles for a prison library £100 Provides Catholic Bibles for study groups in prison, so prisoners can read scripture and pray together £500 Covers the needs of 3 or more prisons, allowing copies for personal use, libraries and study groups Covers the needs of 6 or more prisons, allowing copies for personal use, libraries and study groups £1000 CTS booklets are simply excellent – and can bring many lapsed Catholics and Christians of other persuasions back to the true Church. Guys Marsh Prison Dorset For how to donate to our Prison Appeal see overleaf. gives a person in prison a subscription to 12 CTS booklets for a year, one a month. It gives the confidence and reassurance that there is someone outside who is thinking and praying for them. They are not forgotten. St Paul said £30 Gift of a Bible Packs for Prisoners Sponsor a person in prison Three Gifts of Hope to People in Prison Let us be renewed by God’s mercy, let us be loved by Jesus, let us enable the power of his love to transform our lives too; and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth. Pope Francis
Thank you for the Catholic Bible. It is beautiful and has helped me with my faith. It has been a long journey and it has put me on the track to rightness, faith, hope and goodness. Mark, HM Prison, Isle of Wight
CTS booklets are a lifeline for many of our poor men. RC Chaplain, Chelmsford Prison
The appreciation that the prisoners are prayerfully connected to the Church helps them to keep in mind that they are not forgotten and still a valued member of the Church. RC Chaplain Category B Men’s Prison
It gives Catholics on the outside responsibility to share their Faith with their less fortunate brothers and sisters who are imprisoned and in some cases these prisoners are themselves victims of circumstance and need that fellowship. RC Chaplain, Bronzefield Prison
I have been in prison now for 6 years and have another six to serve. Knowing that these booklets can come every month and that there is some generous and caring person praying for me outside is very comforting’ John (aged 29)
CTS booklets can be taken back to their cells by the prisoners and read during the night especially when they are struggling. RC Chaplain YOI
By reading just one of the CTS booklets I have learnt a lot about my faith. I felt at peace and would like more of the same kind. Female Prisoner Category A
gives a person in prison a pack of 4 booklets for their own personal use on their faith journey.
the titles could include some of the books below...£10£10
Provides a person in prisonwith their own Catholic Bible for personal study and prayer
£50 Provides Catholic Bibles for a prison library
£100Provides Catholic Bibles for study groups in prison, so prisoners can read scripture and pray together
£500Covers the needs of 3 or more prisons, allowing copies for personal use, libraries and study groups
Covers the needs of 6 or more prisons, allowing copies for personal use, libraries and study groups £1000
CTS booklets are simply excellent – and can bring many lapsed Catholics and Christians of other persuasions back to the true Church. Guys Marsh Prison Dorset
For how to donate to our Prison Appeal see overleaf.
Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them. (Hebrews 13.3)
gives a person in prison a subscription to 12 CTS booklets for a year, one a month. It gives the confidence and reassurance
that there is someone outside who is thinking and praying for them. They are not forgotten. St Paul said
£30Gift of a Bible Packs for Prisoners Sponsor a person in prison
Three Gifts of Hope to People in Prison
Let us be renewed by God’s mercy, let us be loved by Jesus, let us enable the power of his love to transform our lives too; and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth. Pope Francis
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1. Gift of a Catholic Bible
£10 | £50 | £100 | £500 | £1000
2. A Pack for a Prisoner 3. Sponsor a Prisoner
(4 booklets) £10 A Year’s Subscription £30 (12 booklets)
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My Gift of Hope to people in prisonThere are three gifts of hope; I wish to donate [tick your choice(s)]
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There are about 15,000 Catholics in prisons in England and Wales, and for many of them their time inside and away from home reawakens their faith in an amazing way. They are thirsty to find out more about the Catholic faith, and the CTS and its supporters have a crucial role in this. Faith is a big issue behind bars, and your support can be of real help to those who wish to become more confident in the truths of our Catholic faith.Father Roger Reader, Prison Adviser to the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
NOTE: In the event that we are unable to supply the books you have requested we shall substitute similar publications. Also, in the event that donations exceed requests from prison Chaplains, your gift will be added to the General Fund and be used to support the work of CTS. Your donation covers the full costs including postage. CTS cannot claim Gift Aid on this Appeal.
payMent detailsHere’s how to make your gift of hope:1) Go to www.CTSBooks.org/PrisonAppeal to pay by credit or debit card2) Text ‘BIBL15 £10’ to 70070 to donate a Bible 3) Text ‘PACK15 £10’ to 70070 to donate a Pack for a Prisoner4) Email [email protected] 5) Call +44 (0) 20 7640 0042 6) Return this tear off form to Catholic Truth Society, FREEPOST SW1 182, 42-46 Harleyford Road, London SE11 5AY
We constantly receive requests from prison chaplains and prisoners for CTS resources, so we have decided to co-ordinate efforts into one major appeal.We ask you to give as much as you can for this Appeal to supply Catholic bibles and resources to those in prison. They are crying out for our support and we are aiming to respond to each and every request we receive from those in prison and their chaplains across the country.
