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Comment by Elizabeth DiPiazza, MEV on November 11, 2009 at 8:51am

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000011424.cfm
Five Abortion Clinics Close in Massachusetts

All the abortion clinics in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts have closed.

NARAL Pro Choice America said it's because of the pro-life movement has cast a negative light on abortion. Pro-life advocates say that's only half-right.

Ann Fox, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said most of the stigma is within the medical community.

"It's not interesting, it's not life-saving," she said, "it's not any of the things that doctors go into medicine for."

Dr. Patty Giebink was an abortionist for Planned Parenthood in the 1990s, but had a change of heart. She's now a strong voice for life.

"The people who are still doing abortions, many of them are lying and are in it for the money," she said. "They don't care about women."

She noted the reasons people are pro-abortion are coming apart at the seams.

In the past several months, Planned Parenthood has announced the closing of several abortion clinics, including six in El Paso, Texas, and another six in Indiana.

Comment by Anita Beckwith, MEV on July 12, 2009 at 9:52pm

I am in formation and looking forward to October for the promise ceremony in Irondale. All prayers will be appreciated God bless you all

Comment by Elizabeth DiPiazza, MEV on May 9, 2009 at 10:16am

By Father John Corapi, SOLT
When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman behold, your son!" Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" (Jn 19:26-27)
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Mother of the Church, spiritual Mother of each one of us, cannot be ignored without doing violence to the Gospels. She is surely at the very heart of salvation history, if for no other reason that she is with her Son from beginning to end. To gain an appreciation of just how involved she is in the history of our redemption, meditate on the twenty mysteries of the Rosary. This will give us a good look at her true place in the Gospels.

Although she is surely the Mother of God as the great Church councils have asserted, and she is the Mother of the Church, as Pope Paul VI proclaimed, she is also a personal spiritual Mother to each and every one of us. To enter into the mystery of Mary is to enter into the mystery of Jesus Christ. Her only true desire is to bring Jesus to us and to bring us to Jesus.
One of the great secrets of the spiritual life is to enter into a true and personal relationship with Mary our Mother. Once the soul seeks to draw close to Mary great things will begin to happen. She will intercede for us and great strides in the spiritual life will take place if we take care to follow her, especially in her humility.
Since the very beginning of his priesthood Fr. John Corapi has emphasized this relationship with Our Lady, and the prayer of her Rosary. It is one of the three pillars of his preaching. "Everything for Jesus through the hands of Mary, His Mother and ours."

May almighty God bless you and yours: the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Comment by Elizabeth DiPiazza, MEV on April 10, 2009 at 6:08pm

Pro-life Reflection {From Gerald in NY]

On this Good Friday, Christians around the world commemorate the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. For those of us Christians who are in the pro-life movement, it is an appropriate time to reflect on the similarities between Jesus Christ and the unborn babies killed by abortion.

Though innocent, Jesus was condemned to death by the power of the state. The agent of the state, Pontius Pilate, had the power to save Jesus but instead washed his hands of all responsibility and delivered Jesus up to death. Every day, innocent children in the womb are condemned to die by abortion. Like Pilate, our government does not fulfill its primary responsibility of protecting innocent lives.

As Christ's flesh was torn by the whips and nails of his executioners, so the bodies of babies in the womb are torn by the instruments of the abortionists. Jerusalem, which had welcomed Jesus as a triumphant king only days earlier, turned quickly into a hostile environment where Jesus met his death. Likewise, the mother's womb, which should be a place of warmth and nourishment for the pre-born child, becomes a killing chamber where the victim of abortion meets her death.

Thankfully, Jesus' story does not end with his death on Good Friday. Christians rest assured in the knowledge that Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. Without the resurrection, Jesus' death would have been in vain. Jesus died and rose for all people, Jews and Gentiles, Christians and non-Christians, born and unborn alike.

As Christian pro-lifers, we have the great privilege and responsibility of spreading the message of Jesus' victory over death to every segment of our society. We do this every time we protest the legality of abortion, offer support to women in crisis pregnancies or help post-abortive parents to find forgiveness and healing. This Easter, we rejoice in the hope that the resurrection of Jesus offers to those waiting to be born and those tempted to turn to abortion.

Comment by B-Graphics on March 23, 2009 at 6:24pm

Love is Life, and life beloved.
My we all thank the Lord above,
That we wake, and that we sleep,
You know he is there to count his sheep.
He cries , he weeps, oh how he weeps,
when one is taken from the fields he keeps...

My we count our blessings that we are here
to defend those without a voice.

Comment by Elizabeth DiPiazza, MEV on March 7, 2009 at 6:20pm

+JMJ+
Chris -- we will be praying!

Comment by Chris LaRose on March 5, 2009 at 9:31pm

Our Life Cell in Potsdam, NY is organizing a Life Chain in our college town on May 9. Pray we change hearts. For His Children, chris

Comment by Elizabeth DiPiazza, MEV on March 5, 2009 at 8:47pm

Pope John Paul II

"…There is no reason for the existence of a resigned mentality that leads to maintaining that laws that are contrary to the right to life -- laws that legalize abortion, euthanasia, sterilization, and the planning of births with methods contrary to life and the dignity of matrimony, present an inevitability and are, in addition, virtually a social necessity. On the contrary, they constitute a germ of corruption of society and its fundamentals. Civil and moral conscience cannot accept this false inevitability, just as it does not accept the idea of the inevitability of wars and of inter-ethnic exterminations." (Evangelium Vitae)

Comment by Elizabeth DiPiazza, MEV on January 22, 2009 at 9:24pm

Excerpts from --Denver Catholic Register.

Archbishop Charles Chaput exhorted Catholics across the United States to "let your voice supporting life be heard," in the ear of the new political administration.

He began by affirming the obligation of Christians to "love their country, build on its greatest qualities and serve its best ideals."

The prelate spoke about the duty to pray for our leaders and obey the law, "insofar as the law does not violate human dignity in some systematic, gravely evil way."

He added, "When bad laws and court decisions cripple the soul of a society, Christians must work to change them as a matter both of justice and charity. Otherwise we risk colluding in the evil of their outcome.

"This is an issue -- protecting unborn human life -- that transcends party affiliation and needs all of us as believers to speak clearly with one voice."