Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Posted on 09/25/2005 9:25:59 PM PDT by UnbornChild
On Sunday, October 2nd, thousands of pro-lifers across the US and Canada will participate in Life Chain, a silent, prayerful, hour-long protest to tell the truth about abortion: that abortion kills babies.
I strongly urge all pro-lifers reading this to look up Lifechain.net to find out where their local Life Chain will be held. It is not an easy thing to witness to the truth of abortion. The media continues to treat those who oppose abortions as extremists and mindless zealots. However, considering the scope of the evil that plagues our countries, it is vital that pro-lifers speak up, because if they don't speak up, no one else will: politicians won't, the media won't, academics won't, and even most clergy won't either. Those of us who understand the moral reality of abortion must stand up for the unborn child: the weakest of the weak and the poorest of the poor.
Western societies are plunging ever deeper into a moral abyss, but there is a positive momentum that is beginning to be felt. In the United States, restrictions on abortions are starting to curb their number, whereas in Canada, conservative-minded people have finally become conscious of the moral situation of their country after the passage of the "same-sex" marriage bill. In order to build on that momentum, those who support family values must not let up the fight for social and political change. If we succumb to our individual inertia, we will lose that positive energy.
Social change does not result from a few prominent individuals hosting prominent events. It is built on the many small gestures of thousands of people. The fight against abortion will be won by convincing one individual at a time, one day at a time. Life Chain is an important event because it is a collective witness. Through it, pro-lifers can show that they are not as marginal a group as some would have us believe. We are numerous, and our message is important enough to justify a cross-country demonstration. The strength of our faith in the right to life will help people understand how important an issue it is, that it is worth thinking about.
Those who subscribe to family values must also consider that we must speak out against abortion while we still can exercise our freedom of speech. In Canada, gay militants have taken advantage of the climate created by the passage of the hate crimes Bill C-250 to lodge human rights complaints against those who would dare speak out against the evil of sodomy. The tax-exempt status of churches has also come under fire from these militants in an attempt to intimidate the faithful into silence. We know that the US has a stronger tradition of free speech, but the threat still looms, just like the prospect of legalized gay marriage. The more people speak out for family values, the easier it is to refute the claim that social conservatism is a marginal position. If social conservatives give in to despair and do not speak, it will only embolden the opposition to put more restraints on us and continue to paint us as "extremist."
I urge you to make the commitment to come to Life Chain. The demonstration is quiet, prayerful and without major incident. There may be some passers by who make negative comments or gestures, but that only goes to show how urgent the situation is. It does take courage to stand up for one's beliefs, but if they aren't worth standing up for, are they worth living by?
Come on out, Sunday, October 2nd.
Thanks for the post.
bttt
Thank you for posting this.
We are having our second Life Chain, Sunday October 2, 2005 at the Square in front of the Old Court House, Lewistown, PA.
Last year we had about 100 people and this year we hope to have about 200.
Support your local Life Chain. Sunday is also Respect Life Sunday in the Catholic Church in Harrisburg, Diocese.
We are having our second Life Chain, Sunday October 2, 2005 at the Square in front of the Old Court House, Lewistown, PA.
Last year we had about 100 people and this year we hope to have about 200.
Support your local Life Chain. Sunday is also Respect Life Sunday in the Catholic Church in Harrisburg, Diocese.
Citizens Concerned for Human Life
Mifflin-Juniata Chapter, Inc
LIFE CHAIN SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2005 is a time for serious self-analysis, repentance, and intercession.
For all who are mindful that LIFE CHAIN is a “church oriented and pastor focused” ministry, the key to a successful Chain is to persuade local pastors to educate their congregations about abortion and to lead their church families to the sidewalk where their LIFE CHAIN is to be held.
Can the unborn look for your Church to participate?
In 2004, over 1,000 LIFE CHAINS were held in the U.S. and Canada, and over 1,000 are hoped for in 2005. National Life Chain Sunday 2005 will be held on October 2, Lord willing, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in each time zone. Over 100 people participated in Mifflin-Juniata’s Life Chain in front of the Old Court House on the Square in Lewistown. This year it would be nice to have 200 or more.
Annually, on the first Sunday in October, LIFE CHAIN invites the churches in each city and town across North America to stand on a designated local sidewalk and pray for one hour, while holding one of the following approved pro-life sign messages. Again, Mifflin-Juniata’s Life Chain will be in front of the Old Court House on the Square in Lewistown.
Accordingly, LIFE CHAIN is not a demonstration intended chiefly for the general public. Instead, its first goal is to minister to its own participants—to those who hold the pro-life messages and declare abortion a grave evil that defames the name and righteousness of God (Leviticus 18:21). Indeed we who call Christ our Savior have failed to intervene as we should have during the past three decades, while over 40 million boys and girls in America alone have been killed through surgical abortion and with additional millions dying from chemical contraceptives and the once prevalent IUD.
With Jesus’ Blessing,
Citizens Concerned for Human Life Mifflin Juniata, Inc.
Thanks for the post, I'll join my prayers to those said on Oct. 2nd.
To see into the hidden womb! ... But according to Hatellary Rodhamster, Barbara Catbox Droppings, and the entire Democrat Party, 'it's only alive if the mother wants "it", don'tchaknow.' I wonder what that is sucking 'its' thumb and touching 'its' head? Reckon the smartest woman in the lieberal world would answer that for us peons?
It is also the 21st anniversary of the birth of my cousin Charles. He died as an infant a month later on November 2nd, the Feast of All Souls. I vaguely remember his baptism (I was only 4 at the time), so he is in heaven now with God his Creator.
I thought September 29 was the Feast of Saints, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels.
Unbelievable, isn't it? There are some among US here on FR who say a "fetus isn't a life."
And, defying their twisted logic, every one of them lived through that 'age' in their individual lifetime, to become ... death-embracers for convenience and lust. In the lieberal mind, liberty trumps life ebery time it's tested.
And, defying their twisted logic, every one of them lived through that 'age' in their individual lifetime, to become ... death-embracers for convenience and lust. In the lieberal mind, liberty trumps life every time it's tested.
Respect Life Sunday, Catholic Church
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Feast of Guardian Angels
Pope John XXIII - Meditation for the Feast of the Guardian Angels
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Perhaps no aspect of Catholic piety is as comforting to parents as the belief that an angel protects their little ones from dangers real and imagined. Yet guardian angels are not just for children. Their role is to represent individuals before God, to watch over them always, to aid their prayer and to present their souls to God at death.
The concept of an angel assigned to guide and nurture each human being is a development of Catholic doctrine and piety based on Scripture but not directly drawn from it. Jesus' words in Matthew 18:10 best support the belief: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father."
Devotion to the angels began to develop with the birth of the monastic tradition. St. Benedict gave it impetus and Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century reformer, was such an eloquent spokesman for the guardian angels that angelic devotion assumed its current form in his day.
A feast in honor of the guardian angels was first observed in the 16th century. In 1615, Pope Paul V added it to the Roman calendar.
Comment:
Quote:The concept of an unseen companion has given rise to many childish titters about leaving room for an angel in a crowded seat and teacher-induced terrors about the danger of sudden death for a child who fails to honor the angel with prayer. But devotion to the angels is, at base, an expression of faith in God's enduring love and providential care extended to each person day in and day out until life's end.
"May the angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs come to welcome you and take you to the holy cit, the new and eternal Jerusalem." (Rite for Christian Burial)
It's only an hour. Please consider.
I would if I wasn't working, but I'll be taking care of God's most precious angels.
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