Reclaiming Our Children

Faith Quote

"And those whose faith has made them good in God's sight must live by faith, trusting Him in everything. Otherwise, if they shrink back, God will have no pleasure in them." Hebrews 10:38,

CDC stats

With the new CDC stats out, everyone is reporting the decrease in abortions. I question those stats and wonder if it is only surgical abortions. I also wonder why they leave left out the stats of deaths from supposed "safe legal abortion" in the same report, especially since that is the argument they use all the time to promote abortion in other countries, but we all know this is not about women and their health. If it were, we would be told the entire truth, it is about the god of abortion, which seems to be more important than anything else to many. So,  Planned Parenthood, why aren't you yelling about these deaths?

12 women died from abortion complications in 2008, double previous year: CDC

by John Jalsevac

November 23, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While pro-life activists have welcomed a CDC study reporting that the abortion rate dropped 5% in 2009, they have also highlighted a more disturbing statistic that has received little to no media coverage.

According to the CDC study, 12 women died from complications related to legal abortion in 2008 – double the number of the previous year.

Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest called the news of an apparent historic 5% drop in the abortion rate “a real cause for giving thanks.”

However, she highlighted the figure of the number of maternal deaths, observing, “That number is double the deaths reported the previous year and it’s the highest since 1994.”

“We have to ask why the abortion-related deaths of 12 women are buried in the very last table of the report and unremarked on in the news,” she said. “The news from this report is that abortion harms women, as well as their babies.”

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/12-women-died-from-abortion-complications-in-2008-double-previous-year-cdc

Faith Quote

"What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen.

It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead." Hebrews 11:1,

The Media Hides What Others Already Know: Abortion Hurts Women

The Media Hides What Others Already Know: Abortion Hurts Women by Steven Ertelt | WASHINGTON, DC | LIFENEWS.COM | 11/23/06 9:00 AM

The Media Hides What Others Already Know: Abortion Hurts Women Email this article Printer friendly page by Karen Malec November 23, 2006 LifeNews.com Note: Karen Malec is the president of the Coalition on Abortion-Breast Cancer. Abortion industry consent forms admit that abortion is associated with a number of serious health risks. Nevertheless, when it comes to induced abortion, many U.S. journalists and their medical experts "see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil." Although the evidence shows otherwise, they continue to represent abortion as a "safe" procedure. Planned Parenthood of Australia’s website includes consent forms that list 12 serious complications from a first trimester abortion (not counting the risks of anesthesia). It says that some complications include: "infections … a tear in the cervix that may require stitches … incompetent cervix/stenosed cervix (too tight or too loose cervix which may impair future fertility), Asherman’s syndrome (cessation of periods and adhesions in uterus that may impair future fertility), depression or mood disturbance, suicide. …" Although the consent forms do not say so, infection and a damaged cervix are recognized risk factors for premature birth. Impaired fertility – which causes women to have few or no children – is a known risk factor for breast cancer. These are inconvenient facts for the "safe abortion" lobby. The truth, however, is not an impediment for abortion enthusiasts in the media and Congress – like Rep. Henry Waxman and other Democratic members at the House Government Reform Committee – who periodically accuse crisis pregnancy centers of "misinforming" women about the risks of abortion.

http://www.lifenews.com/2006/11/23/nat-2784/

Faith Quote

And Jesus said unto them ... , If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

Romans 1:17

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Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13

Madonna

not about abortion but certainly about hope for those of you who may not have seen this....

Amid the Ashes, a Statue of Mary Stands as a Symbol of Survival

Mark Lennihan/Associated Press

The Breezy Point Madonna, still standing after 100 homes burned to the ground, has become a place of faith.

By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN

Published: November 16, 2012

Where the McNulty home once stood on the corner of Oceanside and Gotham, a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean on the spit of land in Queens called Breezy Point, there now remains a charred, twisted ruin. Flooding and fire have left behind nothing but the foundation. Within it are strewed a dislodged bathtub, an air-conditioner casing battered into a helix shape, a mailbox coated with ashes.

the rest is here:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/us/a-madonna-that-survived-the-storm-in-breezy-point.html?_r=0

Faith Quote

"...and seeing that his faith was being driven by the waves of unbelief on the rocks which would cause a fearful shipwreck, asks of the same Lord an aid to his faith, saying "Lord, help mine unbelief."[186] So thoroughly then did those Apostles and men in the gospel realize that everything which is good is brought to perfection by the aid of the Lord, and not imagine that they could preserve their faith unharmed by their own strength or free will that they prayed that it might be helped or granted to them by the Lord

St CAssian

Faith Quote

God Is The Only One To Rely On

Faith is relying on nothing apart from God. We cannot rely on any of His gifts, only on Him alone, on His infinite power and infinite love.'" (The Gift of Faith, Third Edition, pg.31)

Our Lady of Czestochowa - amazing grace

OK, Just have to bring this up again as God keeps confirming what He gave to me in prayer over 20 years ago by making Our Lady of Czestochowa the patroness of post abortive work. For those who have not read it, here is the story:http://www.enteringcanaan.com/our-lady-of-czestochowa.html

"So in the Litany of Our Lady of Czestochowa we shall invoke her prayers as the Mother of those who resist evil, the Mother of Orphans and the Mother of the mothers who weep. We bring to her our prayers tonight for all mothers who have suffered from the effects of abortion, those infants who have never seen the light of this world because they were killed through abortion, for all mothers who lose children because human life is not given its due respect and dignity." Bishop Alan Hopes

Now I just read this about the pilgrim image and was totally blown away. It is the homily of Bishop Alan Hopes from when the image was in his Cathedral.

Praying by His grace I can bring her here to the United states...

In his sermon at the Holy Mass at Westminster Cathedral in memory of all victims of abortion and in prayer for those affected by abortion Cathedral Bishop Alan Hopes gave a resounding appeal for the defence of the most vulnerable in society and the defence of marriage and family life.

Tonight we welcome into our Cathedral the replica of the famous and much venerated icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.  It was commissioned in January of this year to be a witness to the Gospel of Life and to the Civilisation of love – pro Life and pro Family.

It was solemnly blessed in the shrine at Jasna Gora in Poland and has been part of a pilgrimage since June, taking it from Vladivostok in Russia to Fatima by Christmas. It will make its way through many nations – from Ocean to Ocean – and will be a sign of healing, reconciliation and hope.

How appropriate that this Cathedral, the Mother Church of Catholics here in England and Wales, should be the first resting place for the Icon before she continues on her travels. From here the Icon will be brought to the Pan Orthodox Assembly of Bishops and priests in Great Britain and Ireland who will receive it at the Church of the Royal Martyrs in Chiswick. This has enormous significance as Christians of the two ancient Churches of East and West join together in prayer, entrusting to her maternal intercession a reclaiming of the dignity of human life and of respect and support for the Family and of a restoration of family values.

The distinctive features of Our Lady of Czestochowa make her instantly recognisable throughout the world. Her face is deeply darkened – so much so that she is known as the Black Madonna of Czestochowa. The blackness comes from a fire the soot of which penetrated the paint of the icon. Also on the face of Our Lady are two scars. They were inflicted during a raid on Jasna Gora, the monastery where the Icon is enshrined. The raid was carried out by a sect known as the Hussites, who plundered the shrine and stole the sacred image of Our Lady. They placed it on a wagon but the story tells us that the horses refused to move. The icon was thrown to the ground. The one of the plunderers drew his sword and, out of frustration and anger, inflicted two deep strikes on it.  To this day, the Icon bears the scars of that attack. And there is a third scar – inflicted by the arrow of a Tartar invader which struck Our Lady’s image in the throat.

The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, then, has been the object of desecration, abuse and contempt. Scarred by assaults the message of this sacred image is a reminder in spite of anything man can do, the true beauty of God’s love will shine brightly.

How marred is our own world by such assaults on the dignity of human life – from the easy discarding of innocent lives in the tragedy of abortion, to the easy discarding of life as it nears its completion in the so called “right to die” and “mercy killing”.  In a world which increasingly believes that it is in control of its own future and destiny, this cheapening of the value of human life leads to so many other indiscriminate killings of human beings through warfare, through crime and violence, through greed and self absorption.

So in the Litany of Our Lady of Czestochowa we shall invoke her prayers as the Mother of those who resist evil, the Mother of Orphans and the Mother of the mothers who weep. We bring to her our prayers tonight for all mothers who have suffered from the effects of abortion, those infants who have never seen the light of this world because they were killed through abortion, for all mothers who lose children because human life is not given its due respect and dignity.

How marred too, is our world by the assaults on the dignity and the sacred nature of marriage and family life. From the beginning God shows us that the family is a sacred unity given by him to provide stability for the human race. Jesus, God’s own Son, is born of a human mother. He is guided by her and by his foster father, Joseph.  He is surrounded by the love and commitment of them both in the security of that loving family.

Today’s ideas of living with one another and entering into the commitment of marriage, the acceptance of unfaithfulness and sexual immorality, the provision in law of pre-nuptial agreements which is symptomatic of a general disregard for marriage, the proposed marriage of same sex couples – none of these can replace the ideal of the family – mother, father children – which God intends should provide stability for society as a whole. And where the family unit breaks down there are very real threats to the social order.

Let us pray fervently, today, before the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa that those who are in power will seek to uphold the dignity of human life until the tragedy of abortion and assisted killing is no more; and to support and strengthen the family and the values of family life.

May the Gospel of God ‘s love, always shining through human sin and the atrocities that we are capable of, shine also through this image of his wounded Mother as this Icon continues her Pilgrimage from Ocean to Ocean. May she inspire all who come to venerate her, to work and to pray for the Gospel of Life and the Civilisation of Love.

Our Lady of Czestochowa – Pray for us

+Bishop Alan Hopes

Westminster Cathedral, 5 November 2012