“Response to: Rick Santorum, Meet My Son”

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Stand True Pro-life Outreach

March 5, 2012

Response to: Rick Santorum, Meet My Son (I would have aborted him had I known better)

In a recent article on Slate.com a mom talks write to Sen Santorum about how if she knew better about his condition, she would have aborted her son. I ask a nurse friend and advisor to write a response, here it is as she submitted it to us: 

Bryan Kemper, The Youth Outreach Director of Priests for Life asked me to write a response to a mom who expressed a wish that she had known her son had a severe disease prenatally so that she could have an abortion and how that interfaces with Rick Santorum’s argument that prenatal testing be lessened as much/most of it resulted in abortions. I am a nurse who works with families who learn prenatally that their children are very sick and will most likely die at birth.  As I need my job, please indulge me in the disclaimer that in this piece, I speak only my opinion and not that of any employer or colleague.   Continue reading here

Obedience or Sacrifice?

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Let us all hold this valuable teaching in our heart and soul, God tells us in Scripture that obedience is greater than sacrifice. So too, does the Catechism of the Catholic Church teach us how to live this truth.

1 Samuel 15:22  Samuel said, “Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

CCC 2087 – Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St. Paul speaks of the “obedience of faith” 9 as our first obligation. He shows that “ignorance of God” is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations. 10 Our duty toward God is to believe in him and to bear witness to him. 2100 – 18 Jesus recalls the words of the prophet Hosea: “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” 19 The only perfect sacrifice is the one that Christ offered on the cross as a total offering to the Father’s love and for our salvation. 20 By uniting ourselves with his sacrifice we can make our lives a sacrifice to God.

 

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Poor Clare Colettines & St. Colette Blessing

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A note sent by the Poor Clare Colettines:

Dear Little Hearts,

If you go to- and type in- The Chaplet of St. Colette Y Tube you will find a video posted yesterday of the Blessing of St. Coletts blessing in our chapel. You may just find the first edition which was removed there is a live one there, we hope you enjoy it, lovingly all your sisters…

Saturday February 4 2012 was a bitterly cold day with sub-zero temperatures and black ice on the roads here in North Wales. Those who came to the Mass and blessing of St. Colette were either local enough to walk or suicidal enthusiasts!

We could have re-filmed the blessing with an invited audience and a packed chapel on a road-worthy day, but this, in its simplicity, is what the Lord gave us, and – as God pleases as God wills!

Mother is blessing those present with two threads from the mantle of St. Colette given to us by our Sisters at Bruges. They are mounted on a decorated Poor Clare veil. The Community is singing the Colette Chaplet.

If you would like to know more about St Colette and her blessing please visit the section on St. Colette on our website
www.poorclarestmd.org

Saturday February 4 2012 was a bitterly cold day with sub-zero temperatures and black ice on the roads here in North Wales. Those who came to the Mass and blessing of St Colette were either local enough to walk or suicidal enthusiasts!

We could have re-filmed the blessing with an invited audience and a packed chapel on a road-worthy day, but this, in its simplicity, is what the Lord gave us, and – as God pleases as God wills!

Mother is blessing those present with two threads from the mantle of St Colette given to us by our Sisters at Bruges. They are mounted on a decorated Poor Clare veil. The Community is singing the Colette Chaplet.

If you would like to know more about St Colette and her blessing please visit the section on St Colette on our website
www.poorclarestmd.org

1st Sunday of Lent

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Gospel Mk 1:12-15

The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert,
and he remained in the desert for forty days,
tempted by Satan.
He was among wild beasts,
and the angels ministered to him.

After John had been arrested,
Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:
“This is the time of fulfillment.
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

Opening our hearts and lives to God

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Dear Little hearts.

 

We are on the very threshold of the first Sunday of Lent! Do not allow yourselves to be downcast but be full of joy at all Jesus Christ has done for you!

At this time of grace open your hearts and lives wide open to his grace.

It is a totally mistaken idea to think or act as if  this is simply a time of denial of food, it is so so much more…  fasting motivated by love can obtain great graces for ourselves and souls, but it is also well to remember that Jesus suffered all his bitter passion that we would know freedom and joy.

Turning back to God should be a joy!!! To epitomize this each day we will ring in our cloister a bell, the JOY BELL! And for that 15 minutes the sisters can do whatever will give them the most joy ! That we proclaim by our lives that God is a God of Joy!

We rejoice that we are redeemed!

Bless you and thank you for all your prayers for the computer change over there is still lot to learn but at least it seems possible today to write to you all.

Lovingly,

Your Poor Clare sisters who in the spirit of Our Holy Father St Francis proclaim our God as a God of joy!

Do you have sorrow? Let Jesus be Your Remedy

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We can not allow the losses that we endure to control the gifts God has yet to unfold in our lives.   Our hope must always be in the Lord!

Our Sorrows must be united to Our Lord and His Heavenly Mother.  We must draw peace and hope in the hope Christ has for us all as Christians.  Let us place our trust in the one who has suffered more for us.

Let this Lent be something that heals your heart, where the Lord can bring healing and grace to your hearts as the Divine Physician has for you maybe Brother André Marie’s Lenten reflection will bring a blessing to your heart today, please read his reflection below.

 

Come, Divine Physician

The rich ferial Masses for Lent provide us with much spiritual food for our forty-day sojourn in the desert. Today’s propers focus on Jesus Christ, the divine Physician. The stational Church for today is the Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the Syrian physicians who were martyred in Rome. In the temple dedicated to these men of medicine, it is fitting to read a passage from the physician-evangelist, St. Luke (4:38-44).

This Gospel relates the story of Our Lord’s miraculous cure of St. Peter’s mother-in-law, who suffered from a fever. In a reading for today’s office of Matins, St. Ambrose says, “Our fever is avarice; our fever is caprice; our fever is luxury; our fever is ambition; our fever is inclination to anger.” The Milanese Doctor of the Church is telling us that our inner ills of vice, malice, and disordered passion are sicknesses that Jesus can cure. This is a beautiful application of the “tropological” or moral sense of Holy Scripture.

Read more here

 

 

Being Catholic: New blog for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati

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I am excited to announce a new blog launched Ash Wednesday for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

Being Catholic: Discovering our Faith, Living our Faith, Expressing our Faith
can be found at www.being-catholic.org

In addition to the blog, we have a facebook fan page which can be found at www.facebook.com/BeingCatholicCincinnati
and a Twitter account that can found at http://twitter.com/BeingRC_Cinci

I would be very grateful if you visited the site, and shared it with your friends and colleagues.

God bless you all!

Sean Ater
sat...@catholiccincinnati.org
513-421-3131

 

http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/being-catholic/

Professing the faith-being Catholic-is a rich and complex thing. People who have been Catholics all their lives still find themselves discovering new depths in their faith, and people who become Catholic in adulthood often find themselves moving into a new world in which things previously familiar take on a whole new light and meaning. Those who profess the Catholic faith have a particular mindset, which I like to call “thinking Catholic.” It is a mindset that includes attitudes about the world, about the people around them, about possessions, prayer and spiritual maturity that all grow …

 

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