David Bereit: What Is God Asking of You?

David Bereit's personal message to the Life Fair and Toledo. Ohio: We all need to do our part to end abortion in our lifetime and to cultivate a culture of Life.

2 main points: Depend on God and pray! Get involved! Visit ProLifeConnection.com to educate yourself and find out what YOU can do in the pro-life movement!

2010 Northwest Ohio Life Fair--David Bereit from ProLifeConnection on Vimeo.

Keep GOD in America: HOPE for America

40 Days for Life at Keep God in America rally from David on Vimeo.

Fr. John Hardon: Pro-Life Responsibility of Catholics

"Our focus in this conference (you may be surprised) will be on the responsibility that we Roman Catholics have throughout the world to stop the global homicide which is plaguing most of the nations in the twentieth century. Over the years I have been telling one audience after another, one of the main reasons for the world wide homicide of millions of innocent unborn children is because Catholics are not living up to practicing their faith.

"How well I know so many Catholics, and I mean every syllable, are cowards. Over the years I have been saying that there is no stopping the crime of abortion without the Catholic Church. Until Christianity came into the world with the death of Christ on Calvary abortion was universally, and I mean that adverb literally, was universally practiced and legally approved throughout the whole Roman Empire."

"Our present conference has a thesis. Our thesis may be stated in one declarative sentence. Professed Catholics must become channels of extraordinary grace to the modern world. And they will become channels of grace to others in the measure, I repeat only in the measure, of their own reception of grace through the Holy Eucharist as the sacrament sacrifice of the Mass, as the Communion sacrament of Holy Communion and as the presence sacrament of Christ’s Real Presence now on earth in the Holy Eucharist.

"We are only channels of grace to others in the measure that we are possessed of God’s grace ourselves. Let me repeat in the clearest words in my disposal. I would restate our thesis in two propositions. Proposition #1 There is no stopping abortion without an ocean of grace from Jesus Christ. No way will human means stop abortion.

"#2 The principle source of this grace is the Holy Eucharist."

~ Servant of God Fr. John Hardon, S.J.

from There is No Stopping Abortion Without the Eucharist ~

What If the Blessed Virgin Mary Had Said "No" to Life for Jesus ?

Patrick Henry Hughes: The Mystery and Wonder of God's Plan For Each Human Life

"As we look upon the disabled, the handicapped, those who struggle with deformity, mental illnes, profound and/or mild mental disability we are often moved to sadness and even horror. And we easily ask, “Why does God allow this?!” We quickly conclude that such people’s lives are unhappy or that they will never reach full potential.

"And yet I wonder if we really know what we are talking about. Who of us can really say what our own purpose in God’s plan is let alone anyone else’s? We are like paperclips in a drawer who know only one thing. Our minds are too small for us to ever understand the very special and significant role that even the most “impaired” in our world play. Perhaps in heaven we will realize what an indispensable and central role role they had in God’s plan and victory.

"...the knowledge of the dignity and essential purpose of every human being to God and his plan. Our judgments in this matter cannot be much better than a paperclip in a drawer compared to God’s omniscient wisdom. If it is absurd for us to think a paperclip could understand our ways is it really much less absurd to think we can understand all God’s ways? And if we cannot understand his ways, why do we make judgments as to another person’s role, usefulness, beatitude or status? We look down on the poor but scripture says we should look up to them and that God is especially close to the poor, the suffering, the brokenhearted and the humble. Scripture says he uses the lowly to humble the proud. And yet still we so easily look with pity on those we consider disadvantaged.

"One day in the great by and by we may well be surprised to learn that the most central and critical people in God’s plan were the most humble and often the most broken and that we would never have made it without them."

~ Excerpts and video found at Msgr. Charles Pope's blog. ~

God Chose to Become a Child for the Sake of All of His Children

"The medieval theologian William of Saint Thierry once said that God – from the time of Adam – saw that his grandeur provoked resistance in man, that we felt limited in our own being and threatened in our freedom. Therefore God chose a new way. He became a child. He made himself dependent and weak, in need of our love. Now – this God who has become a child says to us – you can no longer fear me, you can only love me.

"With these thoughts, we draw near this night to the child of Bethlehem – to the God who for our sake chose to become a child. In every child we see something of the Child of Bethlehem. Every child asks for our love. This night, then, let us think especially of those children who are denied the love of their parents. Let us think of those street children who do not have the blessing of a family home, of those children who are brutally exploited as soldiers and made instruments of violence, instead of messengers of reconciliation and peace. Let us think of those children who are victims of the industry of pornography and every other appalling form of abuse, and thus are traumatized in the depths of their soul. The Child of Bethlehem summons us once again to do everything in our power to put an end to the suffering of these children; to do everything possible to make the light of Bethlehem touch the heart of every man and woman. Only through the conversion of hearts, only through a change in the depths of our hearts can the cause of all this evil be overcome, only thus can the power of the evil one be defeated. Only if people change will the world change; and in order to change, people need the light that comes from God, the light which so unexpectedly entered into our night."

~ Pope Benedict XVI, Midnight Mass, December 25, 2008 ~

The Wisdom of Today Well Lived

Look to this day
For it is life,
The very life of life.

In its brief course lie all
the realities and truths of existence
the joy of growth
the glory of action
the splendor of beauty.

For yesterday is already a memory
and tomorrow is only a vision
but today well lived makes every
yesterday a memory of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!

Author Anonymous

Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Gift of Life

THANKSGIVING FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE

Heavenly Father, You are the giver of ALL life.

I thank You, Lord, for the gift of life which You have given me.

Teach me to recognize the sacredness of my life.

Teach me to honor the sacredness of others.

Remove from me the selfishness

that prevents me from experiencing the majesty of each soul.

Help me to recover from the indignities that I have suffered

and which have diminished my self respect.

Restore in me the conscious understanding that

Your Holy Spirit lives in me

and that all my actions and thoughts should reflect

the holiness of Your indwelling Presence.

Sanctify my life, Heavenly Father,

that I might be a blessing to all whom I meet.

Let this world be a brighter place

because You reached out to others through my simple acts of kindness.

Help me to believe in my own goodness that I may resist temptation

and celebrate Your gift of life this day. Amen.

~ Prayer from Prayers of Thanksgiving ~

Abortion Destroys Love and Peace

"...THE GREATEST DESTROYER OF LOVE AND PEACE IS ABORTION."

~ Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta ~

The Impact of One Life

THE IMPACT OF ONE LIFE

WHEN A STONE IS DROPPED INTO A LAKE,

IT QUICKLY DISAPPEARS FROM SIGHT--

BUT ITS IMPACT LEAVES BEHIND A SERIES OF RIPPLES

THAT BROADEN AND REACH ACROSS THE WATER.

IN THE SAME WAY,

THE IMPACT OF ONE LIFE LIVED FOR CHRIST

WILL LEAVE BEHIND AN INFLUENCE FOR GOOD

THAT WILL REACH THE LIVES OF MANY OTHERS.

~ Roy Lessin ~

40 DAYS FOR LIFE DAY 37: Major milestone--2000 saved

One Creator: One Pair of Hands

When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars which You set in place--

what is man that You should be mindful of him,

or the son of man that You should care for him?

You have made him little less than the angels,

and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him rule over the works of your hands,

putting all things under his feet:

all sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field,

the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,

and whatever swims the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our Lord,

how glorious is your name over all the earth!

(Psalm, 8: 4-10)

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40 DAYS FOR LIFE DAY 33: Changed lives