tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44446231589730383272024-03-14T01:27:23.088-04:00Grateful for Lifeone grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-91081056162247134652013-05-15T10:39:00.000-04:002013-05-15T10:39:17.060-04:00Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila's Life-changing Personal Experience of Abortion<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<strong> I went to college in 1968 with the idea of becoming a doctor, like my father. College campuses in the late ‘60’s and throughout the 70’s were places of turmoil. I didn’t practice my faith much in the first three years of college and I certainly never imagined that the Lord would one day make me a bishop.</strong></div>
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<strong> I spent my first three years of college working as a hospital orderly and assisting in the emergency room, at a university student health center and in a hospital in California during summer break. </strong></div>
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<strong> When I began the job, I hadn’t thought much about human suffering, or about human dignity.</strong></div>
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<strong> But during my employment in hospitals, something changed. At that time, some states had approved abortion laws that I wasn’t even aware of. Because of those laws, when I was in college I witnessed the results of two abortions.</strong></div>
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<strong> The first was in a surgical unit. I walked into an outer room and in the sink, unattended, was the body of small unborn child who had been aborted. I remember being stunned. I remember thinking that I had to baptize that child.</strong></div>
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<strong> The second abortion was more shocking. A young woman came into the emergency room screaming. She explained that she had had an abortion already. When the doctor sent her home, he told her she would pass the remains naturally. She was bleeding as the doctor, her boyfriend, the nurse and I placed her on a table.</strong></div>
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<strong> I held a basin as the doctor retrieved a tiny arm, a tiny leg and then the rest of the broken body of a tiny unborn child. I was shocked. I was saddened for the mother and child, for the doctor and the nurse. None of us would have participated in such a thing were it not an emergency. I witnessed a tiny human being destroyed by violence.</strong></div>
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<strong> The memory haunts me. I will never forget that I stood witness to acts of unspeakable brutality. In the abortions I witnessed, powerful people made decisions that ended the lives of small, powerless, children. Through lies and manipulation, children were seen as objects. Women and families were convinced that ending a life would be painless, and forgettable. Experts made seemingly convincing arguments that the unborn were not people at all, that they could not feel pain, and were better off dead.</strong></div>
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<strong> I witnessed the death of two small people who never had the chance to take a breath. I can never forget that. And I have never been the same. My faith was weak at the time. But I knew by reason, and by what I saw, that a human life was destroyed. My conscience awakened to the truth of the dignity of the human being from the moment of conception. I became pro-life and eventually returned to my faith.</strong></div>
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<strong> I learned what human dignity was when I saw it callously disregarded. I know, without a doubt, that abortion is a violent act of murder and exploitation. And I know that our responsibility is to work and pray without ceasing for its end...</strong></div>
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<strong>Finally, dear brothers and sisters, I wish to remind you of the power of prayer. Our prayer and sacrifice for an end to abortion, united with Christ on the cross, will transform hearts and renew minds. In prayer we entrust our nation to Jesus Christ. In doing so, we can be assured of his victory.</strong></div>
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<strong>Today I ask you to join me in a new resolve to build a culture which sees with the eyes of God—which sees the dignity of the unborn, of women and men, of the poor, the elderly, the mentally ill and the disabled.</strong></div>
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<strong>Our forefathers saw with the eyes of God when they recognized in the <em>Declaration of Independence</em> that “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”</strong></div>
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<strong>I ask you, dear brothers and sisters, to join me in building a culture of life which ends the brutal killing of the unborn—the smallest and least among us. There is no greater task we can undertake. I pray that the words of Scripture may burn within our hearts, “You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works!”</strong><a href="http://www.archden.org/admin/index.cfm?fuseaction=siteCategories.edit&ipageContentCategoryID=9025&dup=1#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><strong>[16]</strong></a></div>
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<strong>Sincerely yours in Christ,</strong></div>
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<strong>Most Reverend Samuel J. Aquila, STL</strong></div>
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<strong>(Excerpt from <a href="http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/9723">here.)</a></strong></div>
one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-9084093038811618112013-04-11T10:56:00.000-04:002013-04-11T11:03:21.698-04:00USA Faces God's Justice For Allowing the Killing of His Unborn Children<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Criminals convicted in our nation of the most <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/04/08/gosnell-worker-baby-screamed-during-live-birth-abortion/">heinous crimes</a> have never been treated with the barbaric cruelty that over fifty million unborn babies have suffered during induced abortion from their mothers’ wombs. Tiny, innocent babies are trapped in an enclosed space and killed mercilessly, totally unable to defend themselves. They are poisoned, burned, dismembered, skulls crushed, brains sucked out. </strong><br />
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<strong>When we bemoan the shortage of workers to fund Social Security, think of the unborn who could have been part of the work force. When we cry because there is no cure for serious diseases, think of the aborted unborn who might have discovered those cures. When we worry about the economy, energy needs, health care, etc., think of the more than fifty million unborn babies that were never given a chance to use their God-given talents to contribute to our society.
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<strong>We are all God’s children. Will He bless a nation that continues to insult Him by allowing the destruction of His unborn sons and daughters? When we turn away from God and His law of love, might He allow us to wallow in our own misery until we learn the hard lessons needed to humbly return to the most loving and wisest of Fathers?</strong> </div>
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<strong>Consider the words of Thomas Jefferson, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."</strong>
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<strong>"And by that measure, can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we’re doing enough to keep our children -- all of them -- safe from harm? ...Can we say that we’re truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?"</strong></div>
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<strong>“You have to become a bit schizophrenic. In one room, you encourage the patient that the slight irregularity in the fetal heart is not important, that she is going to have a fine, healthy baby. Then, in the next room you assure another woman, on whom you just did a saline abortion, that it is a good thing that the heartbeat is already irregular… she has nothing to worry about, she will NOT have a live baby… All of a sudden one noticed that at the time of the saline infusion there was a lot of activity in the uterus. That’s not fluid currents. That’s obviously the fetus being distressed by swallowing the concentrated salt solution and kicking violently and that’s to all intents and purposes, the death trauma… somebody has to do it, and unfortunately we are the executioners in this instance[.]”
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<b>“We’re Catholics before we’re Democrats. We’re Catholics before we’re Republicans. We’re even Catholics before we’re Americans because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.”
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<strong>"We just thank God every day we have her. I would say Bella makes us better. Some people describe people like Bella as disabled children; and I look at her and I look at the joy and I look at the simplicity and the love that she emits and it's clear to me that we're the disabled ones, not her. She's got it right. She's got a...great beautiful spirit--one that emits unconditional love--and we can learn a lot from that."</strong>
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<strong>460</strong> <strong>Bella Babies Saved to date: Click here and you will read the inspiring Bella baby stories from Pregnancy Care Centers throughout the country and see how Bella is continuing to change lives and save babies. </strong><a href="http://www.bellahero.com/en-us/stories/default.aspx"><strong>MORE</strong></a><strong> »</strong></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Her name is Joanne Schiebel. In 1954, she was a young unmarried college student who discovered that she was pregnant. In the 1950s, her options were limited. She could have had an abortion – but the procedure was both dangerous and illegal. She could have gotten married, but she wasn’t ready and didn’t want to interrupt her education. Joanne opted, instead, to give birth to the baby and put it up for adoption.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>And so it was that in 1955, a California couple named Paul and Clara Jobs adopted a baby boy, born out of wedlock, that they named Steven.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>We know him today…as Steve Jobs.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>It would not be overstating things to say that Steve Jobs is my generation’s Thomas Edison. As one observer put it, he knew what the world wanted before the world knew that it wanted it.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>If you have an iPhone or an iPad or an iPod, or anything remotely resembling them, you can thank Steve Jobs.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>If your world has been transformed by the ability to hear a symphony, send a letter, pay a bill, deposit a check, read a book and then buy theater tickets on something roughly the size of a credit card…you can thank Steve Jobs.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>And: you can thank Joanne Schiebel.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>If you want to know how much one life can matter, there is just one example.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Excerpt from Deacon Greg Kandra's <a href="http://www.patheos.com/community/deaconsbench/2011/10/01/homily-for-october-2-2011-27th-sunday-in-ordinary-time/">Homily</a> Oct 2, 2011 ~</strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-30609424298890758022011-10-05T11:34:00.002-04:002011-10-05T11:36:53.493-04:00Legal Killing of Humans: German Holocaust Compared to Abortion Holocaust<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A new 33-minute documentary film titled 180 is changing public opinion on abortion 180 degrees in a matter of minutes, as author and film producer Ray Comfort uses the new film to ask students a question that challenges their abortion views.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
Abby Johnson, who resigned her position as the director of a Texas Planned Parenthood abortion business, has also seen the film and said pro-life advocates “must check it out,” saying it is “one of the best things you will ever watch.”</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<strong>~ Excerpts from <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/26/180-movie-changes-opinions-from-pro-abortion-to-pro-life/">here </a>~</strong></div><br />
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<b><div style="text-align: center;">~ Lynn Wachtmann, Ohio State Representative and New Chair of the House Health Committee ~</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Knowing that I killed my own precious baby, who had a beating heart, has traumatized and devastated me beyond description and has destroyed so much happiness and has lead to chronic migraine pain easily triggered by inconsolable grieving. An unplanned pregnancy would have lead to unplanned joy. I regret this choice with every fiber of my heart and soul... I've thought about and loved this baby intensely every day of my life for almost 30 years. And I never was a mom to another child-due to infertility. This means that in a moment of haste, in my youth, not fully informed, I killed the only child I ever conceived. If I would have seen an ultrasound--would have seen that beating heart-wild horses couldn't have kept me in that clinic. I would have known the truth and my baby would be alive today. That's why I'm here. Please vote yes on this important legislation." </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">~ <strong><a href="http://heartbeatbill.com/">HeartbeatBill.com</a></strong> ~</div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-21243924974952407882011-05-19T13:07:00.002-04:002011-05-19T13:11:39.786-04:00Dr. Paul Byrne: What Everyone Should Know About Organ Donation<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Uploaded by franciscanfriars on Jun 24, 2008</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ave Maria! In this Roving Reporter, Dr Paul Byrne alerts us on the laws being passed by states nation wide called 'Presumed Intent', which states that all persons are perspective organ donors (... or involuntary organ donors) unless the individual declares otherwise, under the guise of 'brain death'. </strong><br />
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<strong>About Zack Dunlap who was declared brain dead: </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The young man himself told NBC that he heard the doctors pronounce him brain dead, and said, "I’m glad I couldn’t get up and do what I wanted to do." When asked what he wanted to do, he responded, "There probably would have been a broken window they went out." (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2008/mar/08032709">Source)</a></strong></div><br />
<strong>A more detailed interview with Dr. Byrne:</strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Zen Garcia interviews Dr. Paul about the uniform anatomical gift act and how this law requires people to give up their organs without consent especially if they are not of sound mind or have disabilities. This video also warns people about the living will and why you should use a durable power of attorney for health care decisions for protecting one's life in an emergency situation. Living wills do not protect you, they only protect the doctors and institutions which take your life and organs.</strong><br />
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<strong>~ <a href="http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/byrne">Articles</a> written by Dr. Byrne on life issues ~</strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-48586003633758611832011-05-16T18:10:00.008-04:002011-05-16T18:16:50.547-04:00Bl. Teresa of Calcutta: "America...Roe vs. Wade has deformed a great nation."<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe vs. Wade has deformed a great nation. </strong><strong>The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. </strong><strong>It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. </strong><strong>It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. </strong><strong>It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience. </strong><strong>It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the dependent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, </strong><strong>it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners."</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. The Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany recently ruled: 'The unborn child is entitled to its right to life independently of its acceptance by its mother; this is an elementary and inalienable right which emanates from the dignity of the human being.'"</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Blessed Teresa of Calcutta ~</strong></div><strong></strong>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-47068767172377999852011-05-04T17:32:00.001-04:002011-05-04T17:34:09.737-04:00A Pro-Life Prayer for Our President and Public Officials<strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord God, Author of Life and Source of Eternal Life, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>move the hearts of all our public officials and especially our President, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>to fulfill their responsibilities worthily and well to all those entrusted to their care. </strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Help them in their special leadership roles, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>to extend the mantle of protection to the most vulnerable, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>especially the defenseless unborn, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>whose lives are threatened with extermination by an indifferent society.</strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Bring our nation to the values that have made us a great nation, </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>a society that upholds the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all. </strong></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Mary, the Mother of the living, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>help us to bear witness to the Gospel of Life with our lives and our laws, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>through Christ, Our Lord. Amen. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Imprimatur: January 22, 2009 + Most Reverend Robert J. Baker Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama<br />
</strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-14909986992184471202011-04-05T17:52:00.000-04:002011-04-05T17:52:18.398-04:00Pope John Paul II: Children Are the Future of a Nation<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong> "I wish to express the joy that we all find in children, the springtime of life, the anticipation of the future history of each of our present earthly homelands. No country on earth, no political system can think of its own future otherwise than through the image of these new generations that will receive from their parents the manifold heritage of values, duties and aspirations of the nation to which they belong and of the whole human family. Concern for the child, even before birth, from the first moment of conception and then throughout the years of infancy and youth, is the primary and fundamental test of the relationship of one human being to another. And so, what better wish can I express for every nation and for the whole of mankind, and for all the children of the world than a better future in which respect for human rights will become a complete reality throughout the third millennium, which is drawing near?"</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">~<strong> Pope John Paul II, excerpt from <em><a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_19811122_familiaris-consortio_en.html">Familiaris Consortio</a> ~</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://dayoftheunbornchild.com/">This site </a>was developed to advance the movement toward international recognition of March 25th as the “Day of The Unborn Child,” and equally to promote among Christians the observance of this traditional feast day of the Incarnation honoring Christ’s conception (once celebrated as the old New Year’s Day) which is currently named “The Feast of the Annunciation.” The date was chosen because it falls nine months before the most celebrated birth in Western civilization, known throughout the world as Christmas. Regardless of whether one emphasizes the secular or religious aspects of the March 25th memorial, the symbolic interval of a full-term pregnancy reminds us of the reality and dignity of life from conception.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>PRAYER TO CHRIST UNBORN</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Dear Lord Jesus in the womb</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>of Blessed Virgin Mary,</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>before your birth You filled</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>the unborn Baptist</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>with the joy of the Holy Spirit.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Inspire us to see You</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>in every unborn child.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Grant us the perseverance</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>to defend vulnerable human life</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>from abortion, abandonment,</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>experimentation, and all violations.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Fill us with reverence for the moment</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>of your Incarnation in Nazareth</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>when the Word became flesh.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Celebrate the March 25th Feast of the Annunciation </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>(Festum Incarnationis) as the <a href="http://dayoftheunbornchild.com/">“Day of the Unborn Child”</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lk 1:15, 30-44; '94 Cat., pass. 717, 486, 495</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>REDEEMER IN THE WOMB</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lord Jesus Christ, You took our human nature upon Yourself. You shared our life and death, our childhood and adulthood.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>You also shared our time in the womb. While still God, while worshiped and adored by the angels, while Almighty and filling every part of the universe, You dwelt for nine months in the womb of Mary. You were our Redeemer in the womb, our God who was a preborn child.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lord Jesus, we ask You to bless and protect the children who today are in their mothers’ womb. Save them from the danger of abortion. Give their mothers the grace to sacrifice themselves, in body and soul, for their children. Help all people to recognize in the preborn child a brother, a sister, saved by You, our Redeemer in the womb. (<a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/annunciation/">Source)</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<strong> "The Most Dangerous Place for an African Americam is in the Womb", go <a href="http://thatsabortion.com/">here</a>. ~</strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-25392406147904261992011-03-18T14:34:00.000-04:002011-03-18T14:34:43.726-04:00Quiet Euthanasia: Death by Dehydration<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Evil has a way of mixing in truth with untruth, partial truth rather than whole truth, or using something appropriate at one time but misusing it at another time. In the 'active phase of dying' — the very, very end — a person does not eat or drink naturally, for he or she is truly dying: The individual's organs and bodily systems are shutting down. At that time, it would be inappropriate to provide food — he or she would choke on it or it would be aspirated into the lungs — and a good amount of fluid would easily go right into the lungs.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"But if one deprives a patient of food and fluid before he or she is at the very, very end, the patient is dying not of their terminal illness, but of dehydration. There is not enough fluid in the circulatory system and it collapses, causing death. It 'looks' peaceful if the patient is sedated, which is often the case nowadays." (<a href="http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/100429">Source</a>)</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Ron Panzer founder and executive director of </strong><strong><a href="http://www.hospicepatients.org/">Hospice Patients Alliance ~</a></strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Ave Maria! ...a two part series hostess Corinn Dahm discusses with guest Darlene Wagner the increasing rates of euthanasia being committed against our elderly since the Teri Schiavo case. They call it the "Quiet Euthanasia" a "third way" by using dehydration of elderly to quietly sidestep the law. Ave Maria! +++</strong></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>This happened to me for the first time when I was at the sanatorium. The doctors couldn't get to the bottom of it, and no injection or medicine helped me at all nor did I myself have any idea of what the sufferings were about. I told the doctor that never before in my life had I experienced such sufferings, and he declared he did not know what sort of pains they are. But now I understand the nature of these pains, because the Lord himself has made this known to me.... Yet when I think that I may perhaps suffer in this way again, I tremble. But I don't know whether I'll ever again suffer in this way; I leave that to God. What it pleases God to send, I will accept with submission and love. If only I could save even one soul from murder by means of these sufferings!</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ St. Faustina; excerpt 1276 from <a href="https://secure.marianweb.net/giftshop/product.php?DID=101&PID=07110053">The Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska</a> ~</strong></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Eduardo Verastegui ~</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ To see Eduardo's video <em>Dura Realidad</em>--<em>Hard Truth,</em> <a href="http://www.massmediamail.com/durarealidad/">click here</a><em>.</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Watch video in Spanish or English</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Eduardo's recommended links:</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://www.vidahumana.org/">Vida Humana Internacional</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://prolife.com/">ProLife.com</a></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-75631867899982419452011-02-13T18:14:00.000-05:002011-02-13T18:14:41.606-05:00Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Answering to God for Ending the Lives of His Children<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>"I find it a great, great poverty that a child must die </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>because we are afraid to feed one more child, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>to educate one more child. </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The fear of feeding one more old person in the family </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>means that that person must be put away, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>and yet one day we too have to meet the Master. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>What will we answer to Him about that child, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>that old father and mother, because they are His creation, </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>they are children of God." </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta ~</strong></div><br />
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</div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-62132742462539112122011-02-08T18:07:00.001-05:002011-02-08T18:11:45.822-05:00Pope John Paul II and Fr. John Corapi: A Nation That Kills Its Own Children<div style="text-align: center;"><b>"A nation that kills it's own children is a nation without hope." <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Death Wish! The Impending Suicide of a Once Great Nation</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>An excerpt from Father Corapi's book, <em>Letters.</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A large number of endangered, unwanted, and unborn children held a town hall meeting on the 4th of July - alarmed at the brutal and untimely killing of millions of their brothers and sisters in recent years. That the murderous war waged on them had the full force and respectability of the law made their plight all the more terrifying. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Their complaint was humble and it was simple. They were not distressed by rising gas prices, or the deteriorating economy in general. They were not even frightened by the exponential increase of natural disasters. The threat of global warming or global terrorism did not greatly disturb them. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>They had become an endangered species, and little had been done to answer their terrified and silent screams from the womb. They decided that the barbaric treatment that they and their fellow unwanted unborn human beings have had to endure for perilous decades was unconscionable and unbearable. They cried out to their Creator for inspiration and protection, and then unanimously they put forth a declaration. It began as follows: </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of nature and the Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS... </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>THAT AMONG THESE IS LIFE; THAT AMONG THESE IS LIFE; THAT AMONG THESE IS LIFE!" </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The first and pre-eminent right is the right to life. This truth the Founding Fathers were sure of, and anyone with any common sense at all is equally sure of it. 232 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed the amount of common sense that seems to be operative in many spheres of influence - most notably the courts and the political arena - can easily be poured into a very small thimble. The United States of America seems to have a death wish, and we have traveled far down the road to having that wish realized. When law divorces itself from common sense and spawns the illegitimate offspring of distortions of law, resulting in illegal laws - based neither on the natural law nor divine law - this undermines law itself, generating disdain for the law. Erosion of trust in the courts, or the system in general, is inevitable. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The genesis of the death wish is rooted in the fall of man that we see in the Book of Genesis. The substance of the fall is wrapped up in Lucifer's pride, transferred to Adam and Eve - "You can be like gods, knowing good and evil." The unholy, yet inevitable, consequence of that price is disobedience - eating the forbidden fruit. The ultimate end is death, as God said it would be. That's the way it was in the beginning. That's the way it is now. That's the way it will be until time breathes forth it's last moment. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The prototypical sin is pride, the pride that seeks to exalt the creature above the Creator: </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"I can be like God." Then, subjectively and arbitrarily, man tries to assert himself, imagining that he knows what's good and evil for himself without reference to God and God's law. This was the fall of the angels and the fall of man. The attempt by creatures to usurp what is only the province of God. Only God knows what is good for His creation. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In recent years it took the form of a self-inflicted heart wound when some dissident Catholics rejected the teaching of the Church, a teaching that clearly held that artificial contraception is intrinsically evil. Then, as Pope Paul VI had warned, it metastasized into abortion. From abortion it degenerated even further into partial-birth abortion. It was then a short and easy step to infanticide. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>It's hard to believe that we have degenerated to the point that we'll murder a helpless baby should it escape the violence of an abortion and be born alive. Can a Catholic vote for such persons? [who support abortion] We are told, "yes" for a "proportionate reason." What, I might ask, is the proportionate reason so weighty as to excuse supporting those responsible for what is tantamount to genocide? </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The judges and politicians that support such barbaric practices are truly guilty of genocide: genocide - the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, national, or social group. "What is the group so targeted?", you might ask. The group is unwanted, unborn children - tens of millions of them. The Supreme Court justices that gave us Roe v. Wade will have to plead temporary insanity in the court of history. There will be no defense in the highest Court that is the judgment seat of almighty God if they do not repent of the incalculable evil they have wrought. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Yet, despite the life and death importance of this travesty of authentic law, there will be no serious discussion among political candidates, or anyone else. It is as if society has been bewitched, blind to the splendor of truth, deaf to the cries of the most innocent, most vulnerable, and most utterly helpless. </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>From artificial contraception to abortion to partial-birth abortion, then on to infanticide we march toward the abyss of oblivion, a society marked for death... </strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Fr. John Corapi, SOLT, STD </strong></div><strong></strong><strong></strong><strong></strong><br />
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</div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444623158973038327.post-79148265283687859372011-01-22T09:49:00.000-05:002011-01-22T09:49:40.386-05:00Rick Santorem: The Denial of Civil Rights to Slaves and Unborn Human Beings<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"For decades certain human beings were wrongly treated as property and denied liberty in America because they were not considered persons under the constitution. Today other human beings, the unborn of all races, are also wrongly treated as property and denied the right to life for the same reason; because they are not considered persons under the constitution. I am disappointed that President Obama, who rightfully fights for civil rights, refuses to recognize the civil rights of the unborn in this country."</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Former Senator <a href="http://www.ricksantorum.com/2011/01/20/santorum-criticizes-president-obama-for-not-protecting-unborn/">Rick Santorem</a> ~</strong><br />
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