Posted on 04/11/2012 3:46:37 PM PDT by NYer
April 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Friends of longtime pro-life activist Fr. Norman Weslin are asking for prayers for the elderly priest as his health declines.
Weslin, 81, is the founder of the Lambs of Christ and estimates on his group’s website that he has been arrested 70 to 80 times in peaceful civil disobedience against abortion.
Jean and Kathy Plourde of Gabriel’s Corner on Tuesday asked for intercession for Fr. Weslin, who is expected to enter hospice care as soon as this week. The pro-lifers say that the priest currently is staying at an Alzheimer’s care facility in Michgan, where he has been for about the past two years.
Although a longtime veteran of the pro-life movement, Weslin became an icon during the Notre Dame scandal as the priest caught on amatuer video being roughly hauled off the school grounds by security personnel when he refused to end his peaceful pro-life witness.
Prior to his ordination in 1986, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. army and married to another pro-life activist, who died in a car accident in 1980. In honor of his wife, Weslin converted his Council Bluffs, Iowa home to “The Mary Weslin Homes for Pregnant, Unwed Mothers,” which has housed over 300 mothers in crisis pregnancies.
In 2007 Weslin was cleared of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act after entering the abortion facility of late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart and counseling women not to abort their children. He was convicted of the same charge in 2001 and sentenced to five months in prison after kneeling in prayer within a 60-foot buffer zone outside a Buffalo abortuary.
Prayers for Fr. Weslin, ping!
Godspeed. Probably headed for sainthood, at the rate he’s going.
Blood on Jenkin’s hands?
Met him at a protest long ago. Wonderful, saintly man. Inspiring... I pray for his comfort and peace, and if God calls him home may he be received by the millions of babies he dedicated his life to.
I do not consider Notre Dame to be Catholic, nor in any way remotely Christian. The Catholic Church would do well either to clean house in these “institutions”, or just cut ties.
Prayers up for Father Weslin.
May the Lord bless him abundantly.
May The Lord bless you and keep you; May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. Catholic Prayer Ping Please address all prayers to Nyer; If you would like to be added to the Catholic Prayer Ping List, please FReepmail me.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
And may Our Lady bless you with her maternal love
In the name of the Father, and of the Son
and the Holy Spirit. Amen
Prayers lifted.
Dear Father Norman,
This is Easter Week, and the week for the Novena of Divine Mercy.
For your faithful service to your flock and for standing up for life, we thank you. God bless you, dear Father Norman. You are in the prayers of so many of us at FR.
You are in the arms of Christ.
Prayers from Ct for Father Norm.
Very brave man. Will pray for him.
Lord Jesus Christ, be near Thy servant Fr. Norman, heal him of all illness and give him many more years.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, in the company of saints in heaven we pray, amen.
Prayers for Father Weslin. May God watch over him.
In case you or other Freepers have not seen it, here is a wonderful video of the protest at Notre Dame and the arrest of Fr. Weslin, which was released at the time of the protests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiz4tfjSuPc
Coach Dave get exclusive footage of Father Norman Weslin’s arrest at Notre Dame University for protesting abortion. Also featuring an interview with Pastor Rick Scarborough. Very much worth watching the whole thing.
What a man! Prayers up.
Prayers for his health.
Prayers for Father Weslin. May God watch over him.
In case you or other Freepers have not seen it, here is a wonderful video of the protest at Notre Dame and the arrest of Fr. Weslin, which was released at the time of the protests
. . . . Article, then see video, - link at # 14.
Thanks, Cicero.
Prayers up!
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