Reclaiming Our Children

Prayer need

I was shocked to learn about the death of late term abortionist George Tiller today. Good never comes out of evil and this was truly an evil act that has caused damage to everyone.

Having worked with couples who had their abortions performed by him when pressured because of a poor pre natal diagnosis, I was very familiar with his work.  I was deeply saddened and trembled for him when I heard of his murder. I also tremble for this misguided man who murdered him.

Perhaps one of the moms whose baby Tiller killed said it best when she heard of his murder..."This was the first time I know someone who died who I am truly afraid for..." In spite of the pain she was caused, she was truly concerned for his soul.

As of now, they do not know the motive behind the killing although of course, everyone is assuming it was a pro life person.  These comments only do more injury to an already terrible situation. In truth, we know nothing yet and no truly pro life person would commit such an act of violence and disregard for human life. Every life is sacred in the eyes of God and His mercy is available to all.

We  all, pro life and pro abortion,should condemn this action, we can also all join in pray for Tiller, his family, our nation and all those damaged by this horrific act.

Lord have mercy on us all!

Trust in the midst....

darkness...A short while ago I asked for prayers for Ashli, a post abortive mom and blogger who was undergoing a tests for pancreatic cancer. http://thesiclecell.blogspot.com/

I am very sad to say that they found some suspicious peripancreatic lymph nodes which could mean metastatic activity.

Please keep Ashli and your family in your prayers. If you remember, Ashli has a 5 year old and a 10 year old with autisum. While she trusts in God, as you can imagine, the situation is so difficult. She does not want to leave her children motherless. She i s "heartbroken and terrified", something so normal no matter how faith filled you are...in spite of those feeling she is trusting as always in the Lord. Isn't that what faith truly is? Believing and trusting no matter what?

Tomorrow, June 1st, Ashli will be undergoing an MRI. She will also be meeting
with a physician that she believes the Lord led her to. 

Today, as we all invoke the Holy spirit, let's all ask for the gift of Ashli's healing...

PS...If you woul d like, post prayers and well wishes and I will forward them to her. I know this would lift her spirits... thanks

Pentecost

It i s hard to imagine the joy of Mary and the apostles when the Holy Spirit  finally came to them.

Being someone whose worse virtue is patience, I often think of them hiding in the Upper Room praying for the gift of the Holy spirit and wonder if they were saying.."what is taking so long?". But they kept trusting and praying....

I know that I did a novena for my dad's conversion for 15 years! Everyday I would pray for to Our LAdy of Czestochowa asking for his conversion...in the end, my prayers were answered, although many times in those years I wondered why I even bothered to pray.

In our trials of life when it seems like God has a deaf ear and our prayers are not being answered, we need to think of Mary and the apostles and the way they perservered as they waited for the coming of the Holy Spirit.

"The Holy Spirit will come to you, depending on the extent of your hunger for His presence and your yearning for His works in your heart."

(The Gift of Faith, pg. 163)

Charnette Messe

Our brave friend and fellow post abortive woman, Charnette Messe, who battled breast cancer was on Oprah last week.

As Charnette continues her fight against cancer, she works to spread hope by shining a spotlight on the disease. "In this world, it's not about how long we live but what we do with our time while we are here. That's why I have dedicated my life to doing everything I can to make sure that no other mother has to tell their child that they're not going to live long enough to see them grow up," she says. "I just hope, from bringing awareness to so many people, that together we can make this work and that we can end breast cancer in this lifetime."

read the rest here:
http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20080911_tows_breastcancer/13

Charnette was pressured to abort her son when she was pregnant because of the cancer....having experienced an previous abortion and knowing not only that it was wrong, but believing it contributed to her breast cancer, she refused to give in to the pressure and brought her beautiful son Christian into the world.

Now she writes and speaks out about abortion and breast cancer..we are so proud of her...
Charnette experienced remission but now the cancer has returned and spread to her lungs and brain...please pray for this wonderful faith filled woman and her family!

we love you Charnette!

here is another article about Charnette and abortion & breast cancer

http://www.worldmag.com/articles/8156

Book Project

Seeking Entries - Love Letters To Our Children

From Carla Stream..

Hello...

I am seeking submissions for a book -- a book of letters from mothers who have aborted to their lost children. The purpose of the book is to allow mothers to express their grief and love, and to demonstrate the very real pain and loss caused by abortion.

I would gratefully welcome your contributions. The book will be made available worldwide through Amazon.com, and I have a commitment from a donor to distribute 1,000 copies to pregnancy resource centers and related organizations. Contributors will also receive a free copy of the book.

The target publication date is December 22, 2009. The deadline for submissions of September 30, 2009. If you are interested in participating in this project, please observe the following guidelines:

1. Limit your letter to 200-250 words.

2. Name your child if you have not already done so.

3. You may sign your letter Love, Mommy or I love you, Mommy. Include also your name or initals and the year or exact date of your abortion.
[For example: I love you, Mommy
Carla, Abortion September 5, 1990]

4. You may submit more than one letter if you have had multiple abortions.

5. A submitted letter may or may not be included in the book, depending on adherence to guidelines.

6. Please send all letters to Carla Stream PO Box 1418 Hudson, WI 54016.

7. Once submitted, all love letters will become the property of Carla Stream and will not be returned.

8. Carla Stream may take creative license with the format of the book, including but not limited to the inclusion of illustrations.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to comment in this forum discussion or contact me at carlastream@gmail.com

Beneath the Veil

Beneath the veil of Holy Bread

My Savior comes to me

He calls me to His perfect love

And all I’m meant to be

 

He pushes through my many fears

To show me He is there

And in those times of deepest pain

With me the cross He’ll bear

 

Mary guides me on the way

Encouragement she gives

She’s trodden down this path herself

And know that Jesus lives

 

A call to deep abandonment

And trust beyond compare

She tells me when I reach the end

They’ll all be standing there

 

But in this present moment

He is alive as well

Our meeting in the Eucharist

His life in me to dwell

 

And through this veil of living bread

My son I get to feel

Until my journey comes to end

And God lifts up the veil

For those in NY who would like to participate

Dear Friend of Life:

 

     The Advocates of Life sponsor an annual Mass and Rosary procession to the Yonkers Planned Parenthood facility located at 20 South Broadway (in the heart of Getty Square).  This year, the event will take place on the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, June 20, and will also include a "re-consecration" of our pro-life efforts to the Blessed Mother (the last time the Advocates did this was on the same day it was prayed, at the request of Pope Benedict XVI, at the Fatima shrine in Portugal during a pro-life conference a couple of years ago).  We are calling on all Catholic pro-lifers to attend this beautiful event and to try to get as many people to join us.  It will be held rain or shine!  The details are as follows:

 

                                 ANNUAL YONKERS  PRO - LIFE VIGIL

 

DATE:  SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009

 

FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

 

 

TIME/PLACE:  10 A.M:   HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS,

                            St. Mary's Church (also called the Church of the Immaculate

                            Conception), located on South Broadway...one block south of

                            City Hall and next door to St. Joseph's Medical Center and

                            Nursing Home.         

 

              MAIN CELEBRANT:  FR. JOSEPH ESPIALLIAT, ADMINSTRATOR OF

                                                      ST. PETER'S CHURCH, YONKERS (The Mass will

                                                      be in English and Spanish)

 

              HOMILIST:  FR. MICHAEL MORROW, PAROCHIAL VICAR OF

                                     ST. EUGENE'S, YONKERS

 

              PRIEST LEADING US IN THE CONSECRATION FOLLOWING THE

              MASS:  FR. JUNIPER OF THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE RENEWAL

 

              11 A.M.     ROSARY PROCESSION TO THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD

              FACILITY AT 20 SOUTH BROADWAY...ONE BLOCK FROM THE

              CHURCH. 

 

 

*** note of trivia:  This church in Yonkers was the FIRST IN THE NATION to be

       named after Our Lady's title of the Immaculate Conception.  Just a little

      "Jeopardy trivia."  :)

Rose, you go girl!

LOS ANGELES • With a video camera hidden in her backpack, college student Lila Rose has become a rising star in the U.S. anti-abortion movement for her clandestine tactics in taking on Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of surgical abortions.

Rose stages her own sting operations at Planned Parenthood clinics, posing as a pregnant teenage girl to shine a light on what she says is the taxpayer-subsidized organization's cover-up of sexual abuse.

She claims Planned Parenthood counselors routinely ignore their duty to report statutory rape when dealing with young girls impregnated by older men and often tell them to lie about their age or the identity of their sex partners rather than alert authorities.

Rose, a 20-year-old history major at University of California, Los Angeles, posts the secretly obtained tapes on the website of her nonprofit group, LiveAction.org, prompting authorities in three states to launch investigations of Planned Parenthood.

"Planned Parenthood is looking at these young girls as a plumbing problem: 'We'll get you that abortion and send you on your way,'" Rose told Reuters in an interview. "And that's disrespecting two human lives. It's destroying her pre-born child and sending her back to an abuser."

A spokesman for Planned Parenthood declined to discuss the specific cases involving Rose but said the organization has strict policies and procedures regarding mandatory reporting and takes seriously laws protecting minors.

"In rare instances where health center employees violate those policies, immediate corrective action is taken," he said.

Thirty-six years after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the landmark Roe v. Wade case that termination of pregnancy was legal, abortion is still a bitterly debated social and political issue in the United States.

A Gallup poll conducted earlier this month showed 51 percent of Americans identified themselves as "pro-life."

Because minors cannot legally consent to sex with an adult, health providers are required to alert authorities when an underage girl has been impregnated by an older man.

A grand jury in Marion County, Indiana, is investigating Planned Parenthood based on Rose's videotapes and authorities in Tennessee and Arizona say they are reviewing the matter.

Officials in Tennessee and Orange County, California, have considered suspending public funds to the organization.

Rose's activities have won her support from conservatives, anti-abortion activists and some child abuse experts and umbrage from abortion rights supporters -- at least one urging donations to Planned Parenthood in her name.

Planned Parenthood clinics have posted Rose's picture to alert workers and U.S. News and World Report blogger Bonnie Erbe demanded to know why she had not been arrested for trespassing or fraud.

Rose, who was raised in a large family in California and started LiveAction.Org at the age of 15, decided to conduct her own investigation after seeing Planned Parenthood sued by girls who said the clinics covered up their sexual abuse and reading a study that found that the practice was common.

Walking into two Los Angeles area Planned Parenthood clinics with a hidden video camera in March 2007, Rose, then 18, told the staff she was 15 and had been impregnated by her 23-year-old boyfriend.

She says the workers at the first center encouraged her to lie about her age so that they would not have to report statutory rape. At the second center, she says, counselors aggressively pushed her to have an abortion.

Since then, Rose has conducted stings at six other clinics, pretending to be a 13- or 14-year-old girl carrying the baby of a much older man. She says staff members at all six clinics told her they did not care about her age or would not report it and in three instances instructed her to lie.

"The laws are set up so that the children don't have to ask for help. It's the job of mandated reporters to be looking at this girl and figuring out her well being. Is she OK? Who is her sexual partner?" Rose said.

"And it's set up that way because these girls are dealing with shame, fear, manipulation. They can't say, 'Hey, he's 21, make the report please.'"

© Thomson Reuters 2009.

http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=1639217

Come Holy Spirit

So, Pentecost is just a few days away.  Have you been praying for the gifts?

Everyday I pray this prayer to the Holy Spirit that I may not waste the graces He obtains for me...

Veni Creator

Come, O Creator Spirit blest! And in our souls take up Thy rest; Come with Thy grace and heavenly aid, To fill the hearts which Thou hast made. Great Paraclete! To Thee we cry, O highest gift of God most high! O font of life! O fire of love! And sweet anointing from above.

Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts art known, The finger of God's hand we own; The promise of the Father, Thou! Who dost the tongue with power endow.

Kindle our senses from above, And make our hearts overflow with love; With patience firm and virtue high The weakness of our flesh supply.

Far from us drive the foe we dread, And grant us Thy true peace instead; So shall we not, with Thee for guide, Turn from the path of life aside.

Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow The Father and the Son to know, And Thee, through endless times confessed, Of both, the eternal Spirit blest.

All glory while the ages run Be to the Father and the Son Who rose from death; the same to Thee, O Holy Ghost, eternally. Amen.

I think sometimes we forget that we have this Advocate...
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because

..and the truth will set you free....

Majority of Americans Believe Abortion Hurts Women

I have to admit it amazes me that this would even be a question..of course it hurts women...but I am glad it is coming into the open....one heart at a time..
Poll: Majority of Americans Believe Abortion Hurts Women Physically, Mentally
Life News ^ | 5/25/09 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on Monday, May 25, 2009 2:38:58 PM by wagglebee

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a new national survey conducted by the Polling Company for the pro-life organization Americans United for Life, a majority of Americans say they know someone who has had an abortion. A majority of those surveyed also believe that abortion hurts women.

The Polling Company, a nationally known firm, asked the questions about abortion's effects during a May 17-18 survey with 800 adults across the country.

Asked if they personally knew someone who has had an abortion, some 68 percent said they know a woman who had one while 30 percent said they did not.

Of those who knew a post-abortive woman, 55 percent described her abortion as a negative experience while just 33 percent described it as a positive one and 12 percent either didn't know or would not answer the question.

Asked to think of abortion and women in general, the survey asked respondents if they thought abortion "is almost always a good thing for a woman or almost always a bad thing for a woman."

The survey found 53 percent say abortion is almost always a bad thing and a tiny 13 percent said abortion is almost always a good thing for women. Another 21 percent said neither and 13 percent didn't know or didn't answer the question.

Asked to describe any ways in which women may be adversely affected by an abortion, respondents to the Polling Company survey gave multiple answers.

Some 51 percent said an abortion would cause women negative emotional impact, 46 percent said an abortion would hurt women psychologically, 38 percent cited adverse spiritual or religious impact, 33 percent said abortions might cause medical or physical problems for women, and 25 percent cited abortion as potentially causing a negative impact on future relationships with men.

Another 24 percent said abortion would cause all of the above problems for women -- making it so all of the potential problems, except for an impact on future relationships, are post-abortion problems a majority of Americans say women will likely experience.

Just 3 percent of those polled said women would face none of the five potential problems after an abortion and another 3 percent either didn't know or did not answer the question.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257902/posts