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  September 14/2009 -  Monday of 24th Week of Ordinary Time   

 

LITURGICAL/THEME MEDITATION:

"So must the Son of Man be lifted up"

UNIVERSAL CHURCH/WORLD EVENT(S):

On the Expression of Faith Through Works

SAINT OF THE DAY

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

 GENERAL MARIOLOGY
Book Five - Chapter VI 

BAPTISM OF CHRIST. HIS FAST. MARY'S DOINGS DURING THESE EVENTS.

 DIVINE MERCY

Divine Mercy in My Soul

NOTEBOOK V

 TEACHING/TESTIMONY/CONVICTION:

Show the American people what an abortion is!

 

DAILY LITURGICAL MEDITATION

 
 
Monday (9/14): "So must the Son of Man be lifted up"

Scripture: John 3:13-17  (alternate reading:  Luke 7:1-10)

13 (Jesus answered) "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life." 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  17 For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

Meditation:  Do you know the healing power of the cross of Christ? Jesus explained to Nicodemus the necessity of his impending crucifixion and resurrection by analogy with Moses and the bronze serpent in the desert.When the people of Israel were afflicted with serpents in the wilderness because of their rebellion and sin, God instructed Moses: "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live" (Numbers 21:8). The bronze serpent points to the cross of Christ which defeats sin and death and obtains everlasting life for those who believe in Jesus and in his victory on the cross. The result of Jesus "being lifted up on the cross" and his rising and exaltation to the Father's right hand in heaven, is our "new birth in the Spirit" and adoption as sons and daughters of God. God not only redeems us, but he fills us with his own divine life and power that we might share in his glory.

There is no greater proof of God's love for his fallen creatures. "To ransom a slave God gave his Son" (an ancient prayer from the Easter vigil liturgy). God sent his Son to free us from the worst of tyrannies – slavery to sin and the curse of death. Jesus' sacrificial death was an act of total love in self-giving. Jesus gave himself completely out of love for his Father. And he willing layed down his life out of selfless love for our sake and for our salvation. His death on the cross was both a total offering to God and the perfect sacrifice of atonement for our sin and the sin of the world.

John tells us that God's love has no bounds or limits (John 3:16). His love is not limited to one people or a few chosen friends. His love is limitless because it embraces the whole world and every individual created in "his image and likeness". God is a persistent loving Father who cannot rest until all of his wandering children have returned home to him. Saint Augustine says, God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us to love. God gives us the freedom to choose whom and what we will love and not love. Jesus shows us the paradox of love and forgiveness and judgment and condemnation. We can love the darkness of sin and unbelief or we can love the light of God's truth, goodness, and mercy. If our love is guided by truth, goodness, and that which is truly beautiful, then we will choose for God and love him above all else. What we love shows what we prefer. Do you love God who is the supreme good above all else? And do you seek to put him first in all your thoughts, cares, choices, and actions?

God's love has been poured into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). Do you allow God's love to purify your heart and the way your treat others? Do you allow God's love to transform your mind and the way you think of others? Do you allow God's love to conquer every unruly passion and addiction that would enslave you to sin and harmful behavior? The Holy Spirit gives us his seven-fold gifts of wisdom and understanding, right judgment and courage, knowledge and reverence for God and his ways, and a holy fear in God's presence (see Isaiah 11) that we may live God's way of life and serve in the power and strength of his enduring love and mercy. Do you thirst for new life in the Spirit?

"Lord Jesus Christ, your death brought life for us. Fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may walk in freedom and joy as a child of God and as an heir with Christ of an eternal inheritance."

Psalms 78:1-2,34-38

1 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
34 When he slew them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
38 Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.
 

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UNIVERSAL CHURCH/WORLD EVENTS

 

On the Expression of Faith Through Works

"The Word of God Puts Two Crucial Questions to Us"


 
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, SEPT. 13, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the public address Benedict XVI gave today before praying the midday Angelus with the pilgrims gathered at Castel Gandolfo.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters!

On this Sunday, the 24th in Ordinary Time, the Word of God puts two crucial questions to us that I would summarize as: "Who is Jesus of Nazareth for you?" and "Does your faith translate into works or not?" The first question we find in today's Gospel, there where Jesus asks his disciples: "Who do you say that I am?" (Mark 8:29). Peter's answer is clear and immediate: "You are the Christ," that is, the Messiah, the consecrated one of God, sent to save his people.

Peter and the other disciples, then, unlike the majority of the people, believe that Jesus is not only a great teacher, or a prophet, but much more. They have faith: they believe that God is present in him and works in him. Immediately after this profession of faith, however, when Jesus for the first time openly announces that he must suffer and be killed, the same Peter opposes himself to the perspective of suffering and death. So Jesus must strongly reproach him, to make him understand that it is not enough to believe that he is God, but that, moved by charity, he must follow him along the same road, that of the cross (cf. Mark 8:31-33). Jesus did not come to teach us a philosophy, but to show us a way, indeed, "the" way that leads to life.

This way is love, which is the expression of true faith. If a person loves his neighbor with a pure and generous heart, it means that he truly knows God. If instead a person says that he has faith, but does not love his brothers, he is not a true believer. God does not live in him. St. James clearly affirms this in the second reading of this Sunday's Mass: "If [faith] is not followed by works, it is dead" (James 2:17). In this regard I would like to quote from the writings of St. John Chrysostom, one of the great Fathers of the Church, which the liturgical calendar invites us to remember today. Commenting on the exact passage from St. James' Letter, he writes: "One may have a right faith in the Father and the Son, and in the Holy Spirit as well, but if he does not live in the right way, his faith will be useless for salvation. So, when you read in the Gospel: 'This is eternal life: that they know you, the one true God' (John 17:3), do not think that this verse is enough to save us: a most pure life and a most pure conduct" (Cited in J.A. Cramer, "Catenae graecorum Patrum in N.T., vol. VIII: In Epist. Cath. et Apoc.," Oxford 1844).

Dear Friends, tomorrow we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and the following day Our Lady of Sorrows. The Virgin Mary, who believed in the Lord's Word, did not lose her faith in God when she saw her Son rejected, offended and put on a cross. Rather she stayed with Jesus, suffering and praying, to the end. And she saw the radiant sunrise of his resurrection. Let us learn from her to bear witness to our faith with a life of humble service, ready to suffer personally to remain faithful to the Gospel of charity and truth, certain that nothing of what we do will be lost.

 

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DAILY LITURGICAL SAINT

   

Monday, September 14, 2009


Exaltation of the Holy Cross

 

Early in the fourth century St. Helena, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, went to Jerusalem in search of the holy places of Christ's life. She razed the Temple of Aphrodite, which tradition held was built over the Savior's tomb, and her son built the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher over the tomb. During the excavation, workers found three crosses. Legend has it that the one on which Jesus died was identified when its touch healed a dying woman.

The cross immediately became an object of veneration. At a Good Friday celebration in Jerusalem toward the end of the fourth century, according to an eyewitness, the wood was taken out of its silver container and placed on a table together with the inscription Pilate ordered placed above Jesus' head: Then "all the people pass through one by one; all of them bow down, touching the cross and the inscription, first with their foreheads, then with their eyes; and, after kissing the cross, they move on."

To this day the Eastern Churches, Catholic and Orthodox alike, celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on the September anniversary of the basilica's dedication. The feast entered the Western calendar in the seventh century after Emperor Heraclius recovered the cross from the Persians, who had carried it off in 614, 15 years earlier. According to the story, the emperor intended to carry the cross back into Jerusalem himself, but was unable to move forward until he took off his imperial garb and became a barefoot pilgrim.

 
Comment:

The cross is today the universal image of Christian belief. Countless generations of artists have turned it into a thing of beauty to be carried in procession or worn as jewelry. To the eyes of the first Christians, it had no beauty. It stood outside too many city walls, decorated only with decaying corpses, as a threat to anyone who defied Rome's authority—including Christians who refused sacrifice to Roman gods. Although believers spoke of the cross as the instrument of salvation, it seldom appeared in Christian art unless disguised as an anchor or the Chi-Rho until after Constantine's edict of toleration.

 
Quote:

"How splendid the cross of Christ! It brings life, not death; light, not darkness; Paradise, not its loss. It is the wood on which the Lord, like a great warrior, was wounded in hands and feet and side, but healed thereby our wounds. A tree has destroyed us, a tree now brought us life" (Theodore of Studios).


 

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GENERAL MARIOLOGY


 

THE DIVINE HISTORY AND LIFE

OF THE

VIRGIN MOTHER OF GOD

BOOK FIVE

Concerning the Perfection with which the most Holy Mary copied and

Imitated the Activity of the Soul of Christ; how the Incarnate Word

Instructed Her in the Laws of grace, the Articles of Faith, the

Sacraments, the Ten Commandments; and with what

Alacrity and Noble Promptitude She Corresponded.

Also concerning the Death of Saint Joseph, the

Preaching of Saint John, the call of the

First Disciples and the Baptism

Of the Virgin Mary, our

Blessed Lady  

CHAPTER VI.

 BAPTISM OF CHRIST. HIS FAST. MARY'S DOINGS DURING THESE EVENTS.

WORDS OF THE QUEEN.

My daughter, I see thee much moved to emulation and desire by the great happiness of the disciples of my most holy Son, and especially that of saint John, my favored servant. It is certain that I loved him in a special manner; because he was most pure and candid as a dove; and in the eyes of the Lord he was very pleasing, both on account of his purity and on account of his love toward me. His example should serve thee as a spur to do that which my Son and I expect of thee. Thou art aware, my dearest, that I am the most pure Mother and that I receive with maternal affection those who fervently and devoutly desire to be my children and servants in the Lord. By the love which He has given me, I shall embrace them with open arms and shall be their Intercessor and Advocate. Thy poverty, uselessness and weakness shall be for me only a more urgent motive for manifesting toward thee my most liberal kindness. Therefore, I call upon thee to become my chosen and beloved daughter in the holy Church.

I shall, however, make the fulfillment of my promise depend upon a service on thy part: namely, that thou have a true and holy emulation of the love with which I loved saint John, and of all the blessings flowing from it, by imitating him as perfectly as thy powers will allow. Hence, thou must promise to fulfill all that I now command thee, without failing in the least point. I desire, then, that thou labor until all love of self die within thee, that thou suppress all the effects of the first sin until all the earthly inclinations consequent upon it are totally extinguished; that thou seek to restore within thee that dove-like sincerity and simplicity which destroys all malice and duplicity. In all thy doings thou must be an angel, since the condescension of the Most High with thee was so great as to furnish thee with the light and intelligence more of an angel than that of a human creature. I have procured for thee these great blessings and, therefore, it is but reasonable on my part to expect thee to correspond with them in thy works and in thy thoughts. In regard to me thou must cherish a continual affection and loving desire of pleasing and serving me, being always attentive to my counsels and having thy eyes fixed upon me in order to know and execute what I command. Then shalt thou be my true daughter, and I shall be thy Protectress and loving Mother.

 
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DIVINE MERCY

 

Divine Mercy In my soul
 

The Mercy of the Lord I will sing Forever.
Divine Mercy in my soul.
Sr. Faustina, Diary
 

NOTEBOOK V

February 3, (1938). Today after Holy Communion, Jesus again gave me a few directives: First, do not fight against temptation by yourself, but disclose it to the confessor at once, and then the temptation will lose all its force. Second, during these ordeals do not lose your peace; live in My presence; ask My Mother and the Saints for help. Third, have the certitude that I am looking at you and supporting you. Fourth, do not fear either struggles of the soul or any temptations, because I am supporting you; if only you are willing to fight, know that the victory is always on your side. Fifth, know that by fighting bravely you give Me great glory and amass merits for yourself. Temptation gives you a chance to show Me your fidelity.

And now I am going to tell you something that is most important for you: boundless sincerity with your spiritual director. If you do not take advantage of this great grace according to My instructions, I will take him away from you, and then you will be left to yourself; and all the torments, which you know very well, will return to you. It displeases Me that you do not take advantage of the opportunity when you are able to see him and talk with him. Know that it is a great grace on My part when I give a spiritual director to a soul. Many souls ask Me for this but it is not to all that I grant this grace. From the moment when I gave you this priest as spiritual director, I endowed him with new light so that he might easily know and understand your soul...

O my Jesus, my only mercy, allow me to see contentment in Your face as a sign of reconciliation with me, because my heart can not bear Your seriousness; if this continues a moment longer my heart will burst with grief. You see that I am even now crushed to dust.

And at that moment I saw myself in some kind of a palace; and Jesus gave me His hand, sat me at His side, and said with kindness, My bride, You always please Me by Your humility. The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.

When I came to myself, I reflected on what had happened in my heart, thanking God for His love and for the mercy that He had shown me.

Jesus, hide me; just as You have hidden Yourself under the form if the white Host, so hide me from human eyes, and particularly hide the gifts which You so kindly grant me. May I not betray outwardly what You are effecting in my soul. I am a white host before You, O Divine Priest. Consecrate me Yourself, and may my transubstantiation be known only to You. I stand before You each day as a sacrificial host and implore Your mercy upon the world. In silence, and unseen, I will empty myself before You; my pure and undivided love will burn, in profound silence, as a holocaust. And may the fragrance of my love be wafted to the foot of Your throne. You are the Lord of lords, but You delight in innocent and humble souls.

When I entered the chapel for a moment, the Lord said to me, My daughter, help Me to save a certain dying sinner. Say the chaplet that I have taught you for him. When I began to say the chaplet, I saw the dying man in the midst of terrible torment and struggle. His Guardian Angel was defending him, but he was, as it were, powerless against the enormity of the soul's misery. A multitude of rebels was waiting for the soul. But while I was saying the chaplet, I saw Jesus just as He is depicted in the image. The rays which issued from Jesus' Heart enveloped the sick man, and the powers of darkness fled in panic. The sick man peacefully breathed his last. When I came to myself, I understood how important the chaplet was for the dying. It appeases the anger of God.

When I was apologizing to the Lord Jesus for a certain action of mine which, a little later, turned out to be imperfect, Jesus put me at ease with these words: My daughter, I reward you for the purity of your intention which you had at the time when you acted. My Heart rejoiced that you had My love under consideration at the time you acted, and that is so distinct a way; and even now you still derive benefit from this; that is, from the humiliation. Yes, My child, I want you always to have such great purity of intention in the very least things you undertake.

As I took the pen in hand, I addressed a short prayer to the Holy Spirit and said, "Jesus, bless this pen so that everything You order me to write may be for the glory of God". Then I heard a voice: Yes, I bless (it), because this writing bears the seal of obedience to your superior and confessor, and by that very fact I am already given glory, and many souls will be drawing profit from it. My daughter, I demand that you devote all your free moments to writing about My goodness and mercy. It is your office and your assignment throughout your life to continue to make known to souls the great mercy I have for them and to exhort them to trust in My bottomless mercy.

O my Jesus, I believe in Your words and no longer and no longer have any doubt about this because in the course of the conversation with Mother Superior (Irene), she told me to write more about Your mercy. That statement was very much in accord with Your request. O my Jesus, I now understand that if You demand something from a soul, You also inspire the superiors to allow us to fulfill Your demands, even though it sometimes happens that we do not receive permission at once, and our patience is often put to the test...

O Everlasting Love, Jesus, who have enclosed Yourself in the Host. And therein hide Your divinity and conceal Your beauty, You do this in order to give Yourself, whole and entire, to my soul. And in order not to terrify it with Your greatness. O Everlasting Love, Jesus, who have shrouded Yourself with bread, Eternal Light, incomprehensible Fountain of joy and happiness, Because You want to be heaven on earth to me, That indeed You are, when Your love imparts itself to me.

O Greatly Merciful God, Infinite Goodness, today all mankind calls out from the abyss of its misery to Your mercy - to Your compassion, O God; and it is with its mighty voice of misery that it cries out. Gracious God, do not reject the prayer of this earth's exiles! O Lord, Goodness beyond our understanding, Who are acquainted with our misery through and through, and know that by our own power we cannot ascend to You, we implore You; anticipate us with Your grace and keep on increasing Your mercy in us, that we may faithfully do Your holy will all through our life and at death's hour. Let the omnipotence of Your mercy shield us from the darts of out salvation's enemies, that we may with confidence, as Your children, await Your final coming - that day known to You alone. And we expect to obtain everything promised us by Jesus is spite of all our wretchedness. For Jesus is our Hope: Through His merciful Heart, as through an open gate, we pass through to heaven.



 

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 CATHOLIC  TEACHING/CONVICTION/TESTIMONY

  

 Show the American people what an abortion is!

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·                     When I saw the pictures on the website I turned it off, but I went back in because I felt that it was something that I, and everyone else, should see. When I was 19 I had the procedure done and went through a very long grieving process. I am now 25 and 18 weeks into my pregnancy. I wouldn’t think for a second to do it again or have someone tell me they want to and not say anything about it. I since have turned to a higher power for forgiveness and am now very much pro life. The pictures are a reminder that these are not only living fetuses, but they have souls that were created to be born into the world to pass on knowledge of a better life.

·                     I have just reviewed some of the abortion pictures and I am sick. I mean I really feel like throwing up. How can women do this horrible thing to their baby. My daughter was fifteen and she asked me what I thought of abortion. My answer was abortion is murder and I could not forgive that but i could forgive my daughter if she were pregnant. I later found out she was pregnant and I now have a beautiful granddaughter. I thank god every day for her.

·                     I think its great that you are getting out this message, people need to see the inhumane acts that are done to innocent lives every day. If there is anything I can do to help the fight against abortion please contact me.

·                     On Sunday, May 18th I heard a priest from your org on "Catholic Comment" here in our Diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend. I currently volunteer at the Crisis Pregnancy Center of NE Indiana and after viewing your website I feel I am not doing enough to save the unborn. I am so moved at the site of all those innocent lives taken away so violently, so inhumanely. I pray everyday for an end to abortion - I will do more. I will work to let everyone know of your work and continue to work with the CPC. God Bless You.

 More Comments from our Visitors Regarding the Graphic photos of Abortion on our Website 

·                                 I am a 24 year old woman from Mobile, AL, and I want to thank you for the work you all do to help the fight against murdering innocent children. I was able to use your pictures to persuade my confused sister not to kill her unborn baby. I have legal custody of the baby girl now, but I will do the best I can to let her know how brave her mother is for going through with her life. I hope that my sister looks at her and realizes she made the right choice, & will one day be able to take good care of her on her own, but either way I know she made the best decision, and I can thank you all for helping me to help her. I will continue to believe that people are going to one day see the horror and discover the realities of abortion. A child should never be murdered, and yet we’ve made it legal. Thank you for working against that. You are so wonderful in my eyes.

 

·                                 I have just found your website. I had an abortion many years ago, very early on. I had no idea what the reality of the procedure is. I was very young, and at no time was I explained any of it. I was told it was not a baby, just a mass of cells with no nervous system. I am disgusted. I am now 22 weeks pregnant, and feel the child move every day. It makes me think more acutely what I have done. This time, I never considered an abortion, even though the father has left me for refusing to abort. You should have the same graphic campaign here in the UK, as people have no idea of the reality. I have never before seen pictures like that, the information is not available here.

 

·                                 I did not look at the images on your web page (I do not need to). I already can imagine I would be seeing. That is horrific enough. Thank you for creating the webpage. If it even saves one life, it was worth your work. I have forwarded your webpage to all I know and have requested they do the same. I can only pray that it may, in turn, change the minds of a few pro-choicers out there. Thank you.

 

·                                 I am a mother of 6 and grandmother of 3 and I always have felt abortion was murder. My husband and I chose to have a large family and never, ever have regretted it. To us, babies were and are miracles. As hard as it must be for all of you who do this work, may God forever hold you in his hands, as the mystery of abortion for those who have been pro choice and for those who just don’t care; now they can see the murders that are being carried out daily. No one has the right to take another’s life for any reason. Our laws state that. Yet our laws permit these murders... why... maybe because it hits home that some of these parents of the aborted babies are their daughters or sons??? How terrible it is for these lawmakers to allow murder in its worst form to take place daily on innocent children. It should have been mandatory that before these imbeciles could pass such laws, that they saw the actual results of their handiwork. Now how do we get these laws undone? I am poor in terms of money but so wealthy in terms of the finest riches in the universe; my husband and I have all our children and grandchildren around us. I will pass this site on so others can see what pro choice really means. Thank you for giving us the truth.

 

·                                 Thank you for a great site! I cannot express the gratitude to your organization as my wife and I almost aborted my daughter. She is now 14 and healthy and fit and I cannot say how glad I am. We might have gone through it had it not been for organizations of your type. May I use the abortion pictures you have posted on my website? Kind Regards and keep up the good work. Never give up!
P.S. We have two children and love them both dearly. Five years ago we both turned our lives over to Jesus Christ and our life has been much better since then.

 

·                                 I WANTED TO WRITE YOU AND COMMENT ON YOUR WEBSITE, I THINK IT’S A WONDERFUL IDEA, I HAD NOT ONE BUT, TWO ABORTIONS, (19yr.& 22yr.) I’M SO ASHAMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS PAINFUL AS IT WAS TO SEE, THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW THE TRUTH, I HAD NO IDEA, WHEN I HAD MINE, I WAS TOLD "IT’S JUST A BLOB OF BLOOD"..........THEN WHEN I WAS 28yr.
I SEEN AN ABORTION MOVIE AT MY CHURCH, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE IT HIT ME, WHAT I HAD DONE.........THE MOVIE I SEEN WAS A VIDEO TAPE OF A LIVE ABORTION. AS SMALL AS THAT LITTLE LIFE WAS........IT FOUGHT FOR IT’S OWN LIFE. THEN TONIGHT I CAME ACROSS YOURWEBSITE (I’m sure, not by accident) I KNOW IN MY HEART OF HEARTS IF I KNEW BACK THEN WHATI FOUND OUT LATER, I NEVER WOULD OF DONE SUCH A HORRIBLE ACT!!!!!!!!!!
I WAS BORN AND RAISED CATHOLIC AND SOMEHOW GOD BLESSED ME WITH FIVE CHILDREN AFTER ALL THAT I DID, I SURELY WAS NOT WORTHY, BUT I WILL SAY THIS, FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE GUILT AND REALITY OF THE CHOICES (bad) I MADE. I PRAY MANY WILL LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES, THATS ALL I CAN DO.
I’LL EMAIL YOUR WEBSITE TO EVERYONE I CAN, TO HELP YOU GET THE TRUTH OUT AND TO IMPACT EVERYONE WHO VISITS YOUR WEBSITE.
THANK-YOU, FOR EDUCATING AMERICA. MAY GOD BLESS ALL YOUR EFFORTS.

                           (to be continued)      

From the inception of his pro-life work, Fr. Frank Pavone has been urging the mass media to show the American people what an abortion is. Abortion is a reality which is so horrific that words alone can never convey its meaning.

Fr. Frank serves on the board of the Center for Bioethical Reform, which makes it a priority to share with the nation the world's largest collection of images of actual abortions. In conjunction with that organization, a series of careful analyses of what the pro-life movement can learn from other social reform movements is being prepared.

We present here some of the grim reality of abortion. Only seeing such images can bring us to the kind of indignation needed to sustain the sacrifices that will be necessary to finally bring an end to this injustice.

These images are arranged according to the gestational age of the children who were killed. You will note that below the link to each image is a link to a document signed by a pathologist who attests to the medical accuracy that particular image. Each document was also notarized. This pathologist, Dr. Abigail Allen, worked specifically with the remains of aborted children.

It is especially critical to show people the images of babies aborted in the first trimester. It is in regard to such children, who constitute 90% of abortion victims, that the myth persists that they are not really children at all.

We thank all of you who have contacted us to tell us about how these images have affected you. Please use them to show others this horrible reality.

God, have mercy. Amen.·            

Galleries of Images of Aborted Children

Gallery 1: Chronological Photo Index of first trimester aborted babies.

Gallery 2: Photographs of late-term abortions.

Gallery 3: Photographs of aborted babies at various stages, retrieved from dumpsters.

Gallery 4: Photographs of children killed by salt-poisoning abortion.

The story and photo of Baby Malachi.

Medical Illustrations of Abortion Procedures

Suction Curettage Abortion: Description and Diagrams

D&E (Dilatation and Evacuation) Abortion: Description and Diagrams

Partial-birth Abortion Diagrams

Photos of some of the tools used in abortion.

Below are links to the same images as in Galleries One and Two above, but without the thumbnail index and browsing window features.

Images of Aborted Babies - Archive 1

Images of Aborted Babies - Archive 2

Images of Aborted Babies - Archive 3

"Out of all the video games I have played and all the movies I have ever seen, I have never seen anything more violent than the pictures of these aborted babies." Chris Daly Age: 19 Orlando, Florida

Bishop Povish comments on the Graphic image project (July 2001)

Click here to go to a website where you can order signs and 3 x 5 inch cards containing the graphic images.

 

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