"To the Mystery" by Michael Card: The Father's Only Son Became a Holy Embryo

To the Mystery Lyrics

Michael Card

When the Father longed to show

The love He wanted us to know

He sent His only Son and so

Became a holy embryo

Chorus

That is the Mystery

More than you can see

Give up on your pondering

And fall down on your knees

A fiction as fantastic and wild

A mother made by her own child

A hopeless babe who cried

Was God Incarnate and man deified

Chorus

Because the fall did devastate

Creator must now recreate

So to take our sin

Was made like us so we could be like him

Repeat Chorus

Mother Mary Song by Deanna Jones

Mother Mary...song and singing by Deanna Jones author of the pro life memoir TO BE A MOTHER and artwork by Joe Nicosi of Rockford Illinois

Bringing Jesus to Planned Parenthood Through the Blessed Virgin Mary

STOPP Planned Parenthood is launching a new campaign to bring Jesus to Planned Parenthood through Mary.

Get your official campaign signs at http://www.prolifegear.com/

Randy Albright: "Mary Said Yes"

Without Mary...

Randy Albright's Message in Song: "Child of Mary"

Randy Albright's beautiful song, Child of Mary, is addressed to all of Mary's children--which includes all of humanity. The most perfect Mother of all time--chosen for Jesus Himself--was given to all of God's children by Jesus as he hung dying on the Cross. How blessed we are!

In the second video, Randy tells how he was encouraged to develop his musical talent by his adoptive parents. God bless his biological mother for choosing life for her son! One life affects countless others-all according to God's plan!

Child of Mary, kneel and pray; a lion seeks your soul today.You're the prize he hopes to gain with sinful lies, soil and stain. O run to Mary and you won't be lost; she wants to lead you to the Cross. Through her intercession, you'll find grace in our heavenly Father's embrace. So struggle onward down soldier's path as you endure temptation's wrath; but, no matter what the hour, once you turn to Mary evil has no power over you. So do not stray from her protection; you're still the lion's prime selection. Send him away in frightful flight; kneel and pray in God's grace and light. Child of Mary, kneel and pray.

~ Randy Albright lyrics and music ~

The Angelus

THE ANGELUS

The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
And she conceived of the Holy Ghost.
Hail Mary, ...

Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
Be it done unto me according to Thy word.
Hail Mary, ...

And the Word was made Flesh.
And dwelt among us.
Hail Mary, ...

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let Us Pray

Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ Our Lord.
Amen.

Fr. Thomas Euteneuer: "The Mother of Life"

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protectress of the Unborn

"Of all the many manifestations of Mary's loving presence among us throughout the centuries, in this apparition alone does she appear to us in the manner of a pregnant mother. She holds within her the unborn Christ, proclaiming the sanctity and blessedness of life within the womb. Her reverence and tenderness communicate to us the joy and awe with which we must approach each nascent life."

"When Mary first appeared to Blessed Juan Diego in 1531, Mexico had been in the hands of Christian leaders for only a short time. Human sacrifice, where blood of infants was often spilled to appease the thirsty demons of the old rite, was still practiced surreptitiously, a gruesome continuation of the country's long enslavement to pagan fears. Into this cavern of darkness and ignorance, our Lady of Guadalupe brought a message of maternal compassion. "I am the merciful Mother, the Mother of all of you who live united in this land, and of all mankind, of all those who love me, of those who cry to me, of those who seek me, of those who have confidence in me. Here I will hear their weeping, their sorrow, and will remedy and alleviate their suffering, necessities, and misfortunes." No more did the people need to cower in abject terror before the bloodthirsty gods who demanded the death of their children. They found refuge beneath the gracious protection of a gentle Mother."

~ From an article by Father Paul Marx, Founder of Human Life International ~

An Emmy winning filmmaker claims that miracles occured while filming the above movie. A cloud appeared and settled on the hillside they were filming on, just like in the original story. Birds appeared and sang when the script called for it. Contrails formed cloudlike rays of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The filmmaker has been to 250 cities telling audiences about what happened. Every time he filmed, something miraculous happened in front of the camera or behind the camera. The first day they filmed was the worst rainstorm in 100 years, yet not a drop of water fell on them as they filmed. Other things happened in the full length film not talked about here. To learn more go here.

Our Immaculate Mother Mary

Tribute to Mary, Mother of God

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 a 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".

...The church is fully aware that she bears within herself the Saviour of the world, Christ the Lord. She is aware that she is called to offer Christ to the world, giving men and women new birth into God's own life. But the Church cannot forget that her mission was made possible by the motherhood of Mary, who conceived and bore the One who is "God from God", "true God from true God". Mary is truly the Mother of God, the Theotokos, in whose motherhood the vocation to motherhood bestowed by God on every woman is raised to its highest level...

~ Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae) ~

40 DAYS FOR LIFE DAY 39: Shine a light on the truth

The Dignity of Motherhood

40 DAYS FOR LIFE DAY 25: The truth always works

Mary, Mother of the Unborn

It is an encouraging sign to see the prayer initiatives being inspired by the Holy Spirit to help bring about an end to abortion! In addition to the 40 Days for Life Campaign that began September 23, 2009, there are very many groups and individuals throughout the world praying, fasting, offering up sufferings, witnessing and working to help bring an end to the great destroyer of lives, abortion.

The Saint Michael the Archangel Organization has scheduled their second annual WORLDWIDE ROSARY FOR UNBORN BABIES on October 16-17-18 of this year. Cardinal Francis Arinze, Archbishop Raymond Burke, and Mother Assumpta, (Prioress General of the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist), are encouraging participation in this worldwide Rosary. The organization's hope is to offer one million Rosaries during the scheduled three day period asking the Blessed Mother's powerful intercession. A person wishing to participate is asked to pray at least one Rosary during those three days "for an end to the surgical and non-surgical killing of unborn human persons." There are other suggestions of ways to help on their website.

MARY, MOTHER OF THE UNBORN

40 DAYS FOR LIFE DAY 4 : UNEXPECTED BLESSINGS

Pope John Paul II Prayer to Mary, the Light of Hope

Immaculate Heart of Mary, help us to conquer the menace of evil,

which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today,

and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world

and seem to block the paths toward the future.

From famine and war, deliver us.

From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction,

from every kind of war, deliver us.

From sins against human life from its very beginning, deliver us.

From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.

From every kind of injustice in the life of society,

both national and international, deliver us.

From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.

From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.

From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.

From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.

Accept, O Mother of Christ,

this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings,

laden with the sufferings of whole societies.

Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all sin:

individual sin and the "sin of the world," sin in all its manifestations.

Let there be revealed once more in the history of the world

the infinite saving power of the redemption: the power of merciful love.

May it put a stop to evil. May it transform consciences.

May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope. Amen.

Blessed Virgin Mary, the Ideal Mother

"Motherhood is too noble to be without an ideal. God, Who became Man, preexisted His Own Mother, as an artist preexists his own painting...She, the Ideal Mother, conceived because she cooperated with the love of God...And she, the Mother, was overshadowed by the Spirit of Love and bore within herself the Guest Who was really the Host of the World. This was the greatest love that the world ever knew--the Love that came down into a Woman and ended in an Incarnation.

"This Mother gave further example to all mothers by caring both for the Body and the Soul of her Son. She cared for His Body, for she wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger. She cared for His Soul and His Mind, for He was subject to her. What a lesson for children to learn! This Child, Who was subject to His Mother, was also the Creator of the world. Every mother, when she picks up the young life that has been born to her, looks up to the heavens to thank God...But here was a Mother, a Madonna, who did not look up. She looked down to Heaven, because this was Heaven in her arms.

"...like every mother, she gave her Child a name...He was given the name Jesus, which means Saviour. It was an irreplaceable name, before which the heavens and earth trembled, and before which our knees bow."

~ Excerpts from Life Is Worth Living by Fulton J. Sheen ~

Mother of Sorrows

Today Catholics honor Our Blessed Mother under her title of Our Lady of Sorrows. Not only Catholics, but all of humanity owe a great debt of gratitude to her. When she was called to be the Mother of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, her "yes" had eternal repercussions for the benefit of all mankind. Out of love for God, she willingly took on not only the responsibilities of her divine calling, but also all of the sacrifices and sufferings that might be involved. Then from the Cross, Jesus gave his perfect Mother to all of us to be our Mother of Grace. She loves and watches over all her children of the world, even those who are so unfortunate as to not know her and love her.

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THANK YOU, BLESSED MOTHER,

FOR SAYING "YES" TO BEING THE MOTHER OF JESUS AND OUR MOTHER!

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O Mary conceived without sin,

pray for us who have recourse to you.

You have been so closely associated with the whole work of our redemption,

associated with the Cross of our Savior.

Your Heart was pierced by it, beside His Heart.

And now, in the glory of your Son,

you do not cease to intercede for us, poor sinners.

You watch over the Church and are the Mother of the Church.

You watch over each of your children.

You obtain for us from God all those graces symbolized

by the rays of light emanating from your open hands.

The sole condition on our part is that we come to you

with confidence, with boldness, and with the simplicity of a child.

~ Pope John Paul II ~

Our Lady of Pro-life

Pope John Paul II Entrusts the Cause of Life to Mary

O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living,

to you do we entrust the cause of life:

Look down, O Mother,

upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born,

of the poor whose lives are made difficult,

of men and women who are victims of brutal violence,

of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference

or out of misguided mercy.

Grant that all who believe in your Son

may proclaim the Gospel of life

with honesty and love to the people of our time.

Obtain for them the grace to accept that Gospel as a gift ever new,

the joy of celebrating it with gratitude throughout their lives,

and the courage to bear witness to it resolutely,

in order to build,

together with all people of good will,

the civilization of truth and love,

to the praise and glory of God,

the Creator and lover of life.

Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae