Pedophiles like my own father and his circle of perverted friends did not warrant any prayers from me.
A simple story, when my mother passed away (awaiting an urgent non emergency cardiac surgery) , she did a bedside confessional with my youngest brother John who was local. It weighed heavy on my brother, very , unfair guilt transfer to him, he’s not a priest. She was a pedophile enabler and felt relief. I learned of my father’s history of perversion at her funeral. “We don’t speak of such things.”
Two years later when my father (ours) was in failing critical health, (cardiac failure), my same brother, still local, got “the call” from the hospital to “come quick, your father wants to talk to you”. John called me to let me know (distant) , and i told him that “no, you’re not going there to hear anything. we will talk on the phone until he’s dead”. Fortyfive minutes, he was outside in the hospital parking lot, and the old pedophile who molested my brother’s daughter, among others, died alone awaiting God’s judgment.
I have no sympathy for everyone evil. I would not have done anything to help with his salvation.
I am a sinner, absolutely. And i pray for my own Grace and Redemption. in fact, i will include you because unlike my father , you have compassion and selflessness.
I am so sorry. May everyone else in your family gain healing and security in baptism, true repentance and assurance of Salvation.
And yet Christ died for your father