Please join in saying the perpetual novena to end abortion today and every day.
Prayer to End Abortion
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to be silent,
Never to be passive,
Never to be forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
And never to stop defending life
Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,
And our nation once again becomes
A nation with liberty and justice
Not just for some, but for all,
Through Christ our Lord. Amen!
Paix du Christ!
Monday, January 22, 2007
34 years and finally some hope
34 years ago was the Roe v. Wade decision that Americans can mercilessly kill innocent, defenceless, young American babies for no reason what-so-ever. Today, I'm spending the day in fasting and prayer for the end to all of this non-sense.
Over the past week, I went to an excellent rally on the courthouse steps here in Madison County to which about 75 people showed up. Also, in Birmingham there was a rally and march with thousands of people. Quietly and peacefully walking through the streets past the Summit (if you remember, that was the abortion mill that was forced to close this past year because of malpractice). There are only 2 abortion mills left in Birmingham, down from 7 over the past 15 years. Praise God! One of those is currently on probation. The walk also took us past one of the abortion mills which wasn't closed, this location is the only place with hecklers and pro-abortion signs. Both places that do abortions in Birmingham were closed for the day. I was very satisfied with being a part of the walk. There were even quite a few doctors walking in their smocks in support, many of them had the letters OB and GYN embroidered near their name. The walk was led by young people carring a casket of an aborted baby followed by women who have decided to be silent no more. Across the country many others will be showing their support today as well as this past weekend. in D.C. and San Francisco hundreds of thousands will be walking together.
This year, there is hope. As we walk, pray, and fast, please remember the cases currently going on in the Supreme Court. Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood were heard on Nov. 8th and have not yet been decided. These cases will hopefully get rid of the absolutely horrible practice of partial-birth abortion. There is also another case out there on the same grounds, but has not yet been heard.
This week, stop by YouTube to watch some excellent videos. These videos were created by a 19 year-old girl, whose mother was pregnant at 19 and single and and everyone around her telling her to have an abortion. She fought society and made her own choice to give her baby the gift of life. YouTube.com
Paix du Christ!
Over the past week, I went to an excellent rally on the courthouse steps here in Madison County to which about 75 people showed up. Also, in Birmingham there was a rally and march with thousands of people. Quietly and peacefully walking through the streets past the Summit (if you remember, that was the abortion mill that was forced to close this past year because of malpractice). There are only 2 abortion mills left in Birmingham, down from 7 over the past 15 years. Praise God! One of those is currently on probation. The walk also took us past one of the abortion mills which wasn't closed, this location is the only place with hecklers and pro-abortion signs. Both places that do abortions in Birmingham were closed for the day. I was very satisfied with being a part of the walk. There were even quite a few doctors walking in their smocks in support, many of them had the letters OB and GYN embroidered near their name. The walk was led by young people carring a casket of an aborted baby followed by women who have decided to be silent no more. Across the country many others will be showing their support today as well as this past weekend. in D.C. and San Francisco hundreds of thousands will be walking together.
This year, there is hope. As we walk, pray, and fast, please remember the cases currently going on in the Supreme Court. Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood were heard on Nov. 8th and have not yet been decided. These cases will hopefully get rid of the absolutely horrible practice of partial-birth abortion. There is also another case out there on the same grounds, but has not yet been heard.
This week, stop by YouTube to watch some excellent videos. These videos were created by a 19 year-old girl, whose mother was pregnant at 19 and single and and everyone around her telling her to have an abortion. She fought society and made her own choice to give her baby the gift of life. YouTube.com
Paix du Christ!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Biblical Armageddon begins!!!
And where is it starting? Kentucky of course!
At least it feels like it. Man the stories. In the past week, I-65 has closed down both ways twice in the county where my parents live. There was a firey accident involving a few semis. One was med-flighted, but no one died. Then, a train with chemicals derails and burst into flames releasing toxic smoke, again not killing anyone. And the next day, a school bus crashes with 3 students dying in another part of Kentucky. Also, they released the audio recording of the plane that crashed taking off from Lexington last year.
There's got to be something in the water back home in Kentucky, sheesh!
Paix du Christ!
At least it feels like it. Man the stories. In the past week, I-65 has closed down both ways twice in the county where my parents live. There was a firey accident involving a few semis. One was med-flighted, but no one died. Then, a train with chemicals derails and burst into flames releasing toxic smoke, again not killing anyone. And the next day, a school bus crashes with 3 students dying in another part of Kentucky. Also, they released the audio recording of the plane that crashed taking off from Lexington last year.
There's got to be something in the water back home in Kentucky, sheesh!
Paix du Christ!
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
It's Christmas Time Again...
Advent ended in a flurry this year. Sunday morning, Ethan was baptized!!!! I'll have to get some pictures up of my new godson. I'm so happy and so honored to be asked. In the past couple of week, I've held Ethan more than all of my cousins combined, probably. And I love every minute of it, babies are so precious. Afterwards there was a party (of course) and I hung out with the family until I had to go back to Mass, this time for Christmas and this time to sing in the Choir at a packed Mass as the only Tenor X.X Straight afterwards, I jumped in my car, drove for 4 hours straight in order to... you guessed it... go to Mass. I arrived just in time for Midnight Mass with my parents at my hometown parish.
Christmas morning is probably the first that I've slept time I've slept in on Christmas until about noon when Mom had to wake me up. We had Christmas morning without my brother for the first time. He had spent the previous week with his new fiancée and her family in MI, so they would be driving down Christmas Day. Once we get to my grandmother's house, we eat Christmas lunch and open presents, there weren't as many to open since all the aunts and uncles decided to donate to charities instead of having so many gifts under the tree, which is cool. After my grandmother opened the last present, the phone rang, and we could hear her from the other room. One of her nephews called to tell her that her sister had just died. Apparently they ate a Christmas breakfast, she decided to go lay down, and later when they went back to wake her up, she had already started turning blue. That changed the mood for a couple of hours. She had all kinds of cronic health problems, and she went peacefully, so we were all pretty grateful. But once everyone had their composure back together, we ALL gathered in the living room to pray along with a couple of Hail Marys. And then my grandmother started making plans to take a plane trip to Houston and back in the middle of the Holiday airport mélée.
We had to leave to make it back home before my brother made it in, but they were held up and ended up being 2 hrs. late and we had dinner with my other grandmother. The rest of the week was busy, but pretty normal for the holiday, both my brother (with his girl) and I were able to stay the whole week, so that was great.
That is my Christmas story and it was really nice this year.
Paix du Christ!
Christmas morning is probably the first that I've slept time I've slept in on Christmas until about noon when Mom had to wake me up. We had Christmas morning without my brother for the first time. He had spent the previous week with his new fiancée and her family in MI, so they would be driving down Christmas Day. Once we get to my grandmother's house, we eat Christmas lunch and open presents, there weren't as many to open since all the aunts and uncles decided to donate to charities instead of having so many gifts under the tree, which is cool. After my grandmother opened the last present, the phone rang, and we could hear her from the other room. One of her nephews called to tell her that her sister had just died. Apparently they ate a Christmas breakfast, she decided to go lay down, and later when they went back to wake her up, she had already started turning blue. That changed the mood for a couple of hours. She had all kinds of cronic health problems, and she went peacefully, so we were all pretty grateful. But once everyone had their composure back together, we ALL gathered in the living room to pray along with a couple of Hail Marys. And then my grandmother started making plans to take a plane trip to Houston and back in the middle of the Holiday airport mélée.
We had to leave to make it back home before my brother made it in, but they were held up and ended up being 2 hrs. late and we had dinner with my other grandmother. The rest of the week was busy, but pretty normal for the holiday, both my brother (with his girl) and I were able to stay the whole week, so that was great.
That is my Christmas story and it was really nice this year.
Paix du Christ!
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Happy Birthday!
It's been a while since I've posted, but Christmas has been CRAZY, but wonderful! Of course today is the 9th day of Christmas. No matter what the stores are displaying, or what the radio stations play, we are still IN the Christmas season, so keep those decorations up and keep those CDs (or flash drives) spinnin'!
Think about it, Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birth as a baby. Who here has been pregnant or been close to someone whose pregnant? Before hand is all of the preparation: showers, making sure the nusery is stocked, you have the diapers and strollers that you need, you have doctor visits to make sure the baby is okay, you have to have plans of how to get to the hospital and what you're going to do, and the list goes on. It's all the getting ready. After the baby is born, there is a period of excitement with people wanting to see and hold the baby, there are gifts, congratulations, cakes celebrating the birth and all kinds of joy and festivities, this is the period when you see all of the "It's a Boy/Girl" and other baby decorations and streamers go up, not before.
The secular seasons (you know... what the stores do) where Christmas starts after Halloween, Valentine cards start to be sold after Christmas and so forth really doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you are trying to milk people out of their money. The liturgical seasons that the Church has set up emulates the real life scenario we looked at above. Advent is the preparation during the 4 weeks before the birth of Christ. We too need to clean the cobwebs out of the nursery before Christ is born in our hearts and so forth, BEFORE the birth of the baby Jesus. Christmas STARTS on Christmas Day not end, and for the weeks following, we celebrate with joy the birth of the baby Jesus. We clammor to hold Jesus in our hearts, we rejoice in his new life within us every year.
Continue to celebrate Christmas for the rest of this week, but remember to spread the joy of Christmas (which is Christ) throughout the ENTIRE year!
Paix du Christ!
Think about it, Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birth as a baby. Who here has been pregnant or been close to someone whose pregnant? Before hand is all of the preparation: showers, making sure the nusery is stocked, you have the diapers and strollers that you need, you have doctor visits to make sure the baby is okay, you have to have plans of how to get to the hospital and what you're going to do, and the list goes on. It's all the getting ready. After the baby is born, there is a period of excitement with people wanting to see and hold the baby, there are gifts, congratulations, cakes celebrating the birth and all kinds of joy and festivities, this is the period when you see all of the "It's a Boy/Girl" and other baby decorations and streamers go up, not before.
The secular seasons (you know... what the stores do) where Christmas starts after Halloween, Valentine cards start to be sold after Christmas and so forth really doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you are trying to milk people out of their money. The liturgical seasons that the Church has set up emulates the real life scenario we looked at above. Advent is the preparation during the 4 weeks before the birth of Christ. We too need to clean the cobwebs out of the nursery before Christ is born in our hearts and so forth, BEFORE the birth of the baby Jesus. Christmas STARTS on Christmas Day not end, and for the weeks following, we celebrate with joy the birth of the baby Jesus. We clammor to hold Jesus in our hearts, we rejoice in his new life within us every year.
Continue to celebrate Christmas for the rest of this week, but remember to spread the joy of Christmas (which is Christ) throughout the ENTIRE year!
Paix du Christ!
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