Reclaiming Our Children

HAppy New Year

This prayer is on the front page of the Rockville diocese in NY...a blessed New Year!

Prayer for the New Year

O God of new beginnings and wonderful surprises, thank you for the gift of a new year.  May it be a time of grace for me, a time to grow in faith and love, a time to renew my commitment to following Your Son, Jesus.  May it be a year of blessing for me, a time to cherish my family and friends, a time to renew my efforts at work, a time to embrace my faith more fully.  Walk with me, please, in every day and every hour of this new year, that the light of Christ might shine through me, in spite of my weaknesses and failings.  Above all, may I remember this year that I am a pilgrim on the sacred path to You.   

Amen

The delay of the messiah

"Adding to the gravity of this transgression is the fact that it impedes the coming of redemption."

http://www.vosizneias.com/45764/2009/12/29/israel-chief-rabbis-abortions-delay-the-arrival-of-the-messiah

If the baby had a voice

Don't know anything about this author but it should make for an interesting book from both perspectives...

Internet outpost of writer Christopher Allen Jones

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I'm currently at work on my next novel. It is the story of a man who travels back in time to convince his mother not to abort him, even though the world is crumbling around her.

http://writerjones.com/?p=196

Nancy Pelosi

Although I try not to get political on here, I thought that it was worth mentioning the response Nancy Pelosi gave in an interview to Newsweek magazine relating to her faith and abortion.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/2277

"I have some concerns about the church's position respecting a woman's right to choose. I have some concerns about the church's position on gay rights. I am a practicing Catholic, although they're probably not too happy about that. But it is my faith. I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. And that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will."

Yes, Nancy, you do have free will, and that free will and the decisions you make, you will have to answer for before God.

She just does not get it. The church truly does respect women . They respect the fact that no woman should have to take the life of her child and you cannot have an abortion without consequence, not only  the obvious death of the baby but to yourself. The impact of her decision is something she will come face to face with God on, somehow I think that "free will" choice is not going to be so freeing then.

we know that this is true

Hat tip to http://livingjourney.wordpress.com

for this post from the movie Alfie...we have come a long way since then but I truly believe in our hearts we all know this is truth...

Aborted "would-be" child

"Later on in life, she did decide to become a mother. Throughout having a child, she tells of “dreams permeated by thoughts of my aborted would-be child.” However, she states that her “What if’s” about her unborn baby are short-lived and superficial."

So goes a post on "A Positive, Personal testimony of having an  Abortion" found here:

http://beingfeminist.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/a-positive-personal-testimony-of-having-an-abortion/

Sounds to me like if she is dreaming of her aborted "would-be" child, there is not as much peace as she would like us to believe.

I sometimes wonder why it is so important for women to think abortion does not bother some people at all...I would never want to be a person who could kill their own baby with ease...it just is not natural no matter what the circumstances. Of course, admitting it bothers you would mean it actually may not be good for women, and the price of that is just too high to those who want to keep abortion legal no matter what. After all, that is the lie the whole thing was based upon, a "good" for women.

In the end, the story of Maria's abortion sounds like a "me" story, which in the end is what all of our abortions were about...perceived self perservation for some reason or another. We were not ready, or someone forced us or threatened to leave..the list is endless, as if any of that can justify taking a life.

We are told:

"Look at that, a women who knows herself and knows what decision she needs to make, despite our society not being trustful of the capabilities that women have in decision-making when it comes to their bodies and their lives.  "

Perhaps the blogger at Being Feminist needs to do some research to find out what science has now taught us, the baby has its own body and life.

As for Maria, the woman who had the abortion, chances are the dreams will continue. No matter how "short lived" or "superficial" she claims them to be, there is obviously some part of her struggling with her decision, and that is a good thing since she is the mom, and no mom shoul dbe at peace with killing her own child.

Why Jesus Came As A Baby

Why Jesus Came As A Baby

"You cannot fear the defenseless Jesus who comes to us in His powerlessness. If you fear God, the mystery of Bethlehem reminds you that you must not fear God. He humbled Himself so much, stripped himself of everything and became so defenseless, to make it easier for you to adhere to Him and entrust yourself to Him." (The Gift of Faith, pg. 48)

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A Blessed Christmas

I probably will not be posting much, if at all the next few days. I am back in the office on Monday afternoon so probably nothing until then. Monday morning I will be heading down to Holy Innocents for the prayer vigil with Fr Groeschel http://reclaimingourchildren.typepad.com/lumina_a_ray_of_light_aft/2009/12/holy-innocents.html

In some ways this has been a difficult year. From some crosses in the family, to the general landscape of abortion in our country, it has been trying at times to see the road we seem to be going down, but I am grateful for many things, amongst them that I am so fortunate that my son and his wife are coming in from California today so the whole family will be together for Christmas.

This blog deals with the devastation of life and lies of abortion, but this season is truly about joy and the gift of life.

The gift of eternal life brought to us, no matter what our sins,  through the birth, suffering, death, resurrection and ascension of Mercy Himself, Jesus Christ our Savior.

May you and yours feel His peace in your hearts and His joy in your lives in the coming days and always

Merry Christmas!

 

Another "safe" abortion

California Doc in trouble with Med Board after prescribing the abortion pill “Plan B” and other “Drugs” to lover

Read Report on David Neal Glaser, MD Here
David Neal Glaser charged by medical board with gross negligence, prescribing without examination, etc.

On December 14, 2009, the Medical Board of California filed an Accusation against psychiatrist David Neal Glaser, alleging gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, prescribing without appropriate examination and medical indication; failure to maintain adequate and accurate medical records; self use of dangerous drugs and

read the rest here http://saynsumthn.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/california-doc-in-trouble-with-med-board-after-prescribing-the-abortion-pill-plan-b-and-other-drugs-to-lover/

The Child born for us

As the often difficult time of Christmas comes to those still struggling from abortion, I once again thought it would be good to look at this joyous time in the truth of what it is..the birth of Mercy....so from Pope John Paul II's Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life): Conclusion

102. At the end of this Encyclical, we naturally look again to the Lord Jesus, "the Child born for us" (cf. Is 9:6), that in him we may contemplate "the Life" which "was made manifest" (l Jn 1:2). In the mystery of Christ's Birth the encounter of God with man takes place and the earthly journey of the Son of God begins, a journey which will culminate in the gift of his life on the Cross. By his death Christ will conquer death and become for all humanity the source of new life.

The one who accepted "Life" in the name of all and for the sake of all was Mary, the Virgin Mother; she is thus most closely and personally associated with the Gospel of Life. Mary's consent at the Annunciation and her motherhood stand at the very beginning of the mystery of life which Christ came to bestow on humanity (cf. Jn 10:10). Through her acceptance and loving care for the life of the Incarnate Word, human life has been rescued from condemnation to final and eternal death.

For this reason, Mary, "like the Church of which she is the type, is a mother of all who are reborn to life. She is in fact the mother of the Life by which everyone lives, and when she brought it forth from herself she in some way brought to rebirth all those who were to live by that Life". ¹³⁸