God’s light cannot be suppressed no matter how great the darkness
There is about one week left in the 40 Days for Life
If you believe there’s no greater power than prayer and if you feel in your heart that those who stand in public witness for the unborn are doing a courageous and important thing,
perhaps that’s a sign that you should be one of them.
Please see if you can find an hour to come this last week
and be part of the 40 Days for Life. Continue reading
Praise God there was a “save” in Rockland this week.
A baby whose life was spared from abortion.
And it was one of 311 lives saved so far this year
since the 40 Days for Life began
on September 23 in 307 cities around the world.
“Whoever saves a single life, saves the entire world.”
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Your prayers are really needed today.
“For eight years we have stood on this ground because of one reason only,”
said Eileen Peterson, 40 Days coordinator in Spring Valley.
“God has sent us!
Every hour, every day, the people of God are fasting and praying.”
And Eileen is convinced the prayers are being heard and answered.
“We know through the New York state statistics that abortions in Rockland County
have seriously dropped.”
Please sign up now to take part in the 40 Days for Life, a true matter of Life and death.
This week brought rain and gusty wind for days. But the 40 Days volunteers continued their vigil.
The hours are from 9 am until 6 pm on Perlman Drive, Spring Valley, and from 6 pm until 9 as at the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel at St. Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville. The Perlman Drive prayer site is on public property, about 50 yards from the Spring Valley Planned Parenthood office, which is in a mall nearby.
Please e-mail RachelMinister1@aol.com or call 845-492-6709 for more information.
The welcome influx of enthusiastic Christians from churches across all of Rockland County made Sunday’s Life Chain in Nanuet the biggest in years.
Under bright, sunny skies, from 2 to 3:30 pm, over 400 participants stood up for Life by forming a “chain” that stretched along Route 59 from the west end of the Shops at Nanuet nearly down to the intersection with College Rd., and north and south along Middletown Rd.
Holding signs that read “Abortion Kills Children” and “Jesus Saves and Heals,” and other appeals to respect the life of the unborn, veteran Life Chain participants and the many newcomers proclaimed their message to the thousands who passed by in cars during the hour and a half they stood witness.
Eileen Peterson, Bob Zottoli, Chris Bell, of Good Counsel Homes, and Liz O’Brien of Rockland Right to Life
Among those present were members of the Prolife Club of Albertus Magnus High School in Bardonia, Beth Am Messiah in New City, CrossLife Church in Thiells, Faith Assembly of God in Chestnut Ridge, the Gracepoint Gospel Fellowship in New City, the Living Hope Fellowship in Tompkins Cove, the New Hope Christian Church in Monsey, St. Augustine’s Church in New City and many other Catholic churches, the Salvation Army from West Nyack, the Savior Community Church in New City, the Silver Springs Vineyard Church in Nyack, the Sisters of Charity from St. Agatha’s Home in Nanuet, and the Sisters of Life.
Blanca and Deacon Ed Ilarraza
Chris Bell, the co-founder and president of Good Counsel Homes, which helps homeless pregnant women, also visited the Life Chain. He had been speaking at the masses at St. Anthony’s Church in Nanuet for Respect Life Sunday.
Many of the first-timers learned of the Life Chain through Deacon Ed Ilarraza of Gracepoint Gospel Fellowship. Ilarraza and Eileen Peterson were organizers of the Life Chain.
“Brother Ed spread the word,” said Onix Sosa of CrossLife Church in Thiells. “We credit him with us being here.”
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This is a picture of the sky above Care Net in Spring Valley, a life affirming answer to a crisis pregnancy. They are located right across the street from Planned Parenthood.
When the e-mail, text, call comes to
“Go to the Streets and Proclaim
the Gospel of LIFE”
(St. John Paul II)
how will you respond during the next 35 days?
Please sign up now for this is truly a matter between LIFE and death
The 40 Days for Life campaign began on Wednesday, Sept. 23, on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley with Fr. Frank Samoylo leading the faithful in the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3 o’clock.
The hours are from 9 am until 6 pm on Perlman Drive, Spring Valley, and from 6 pm until 9 as at the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel at St. Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville. The Perlman Drive prayer site is on public property, about 50 yards from the Spring Valley Planned Parenthood office, which is in a mall nearby.
Please e-mail RachelMinister1@aol.com or call 845-492-6709 for more information.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Medicaid law Tuesday to give states the freedom to exclude abortion providers from Medicaid. The vote was 236 to 193.
This will help the five states that have voted to defund Planned Parenthood, but who are receiving pushback from the Obama administration which claims the states don’t have the authority to revoke Medicaid taxpayer funding. The states are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Utah.
Our representative Nita Lowey voted against this prolife bill.
You can read more about this bill, The Women’s Health and Safety Act (HR 3495), here.
A rally in support of Planned Parenthood was held in White Plains Sunday. Among the attendees were several local lawmakers and Nita Lowey, who represents Rockland and parts of Westchester counties in the House of Representatives.
Two weeks ago, Lowey voted against defunding PP and also against a bill to protect infants who survive abortions. These two measures passed the House.
Among the pro-life protestors who lined the streets during the rally was Judith Anderson of the Hudson Valley Coalition for Life who said the Planned Parenthood videos which sparked the current defunding debate only “confirm what we know and have known about Planned Parenthood for 40 years.”
You can watch the News 12 Hudson Valley coverage here.
By a vote of 52-47, the Senate blocked legislation yesterday that would have kept the government running through Dec. 11. The bill contained a provision to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding for a year while its practices are being investigated.
New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand voted to block the bill.
Following the defeat, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), the Senate Majority leader, filed a new bill to fund federal agencies. This bill does not contain the Planned Parenthood defunding measure. The vote on this bill could come Monday.
At the moment the Republicans are divided as to how to proceed. “We can win if we take the case to the American people,” Sen. Ted Cruz wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in Politico. “Show the Planned Parenthood videos. Stand united. If Obama follows through on his threat to veto funding for the federal government, we should force him to defend that radical position.”
With 60 votes needed to proceed, the vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Children Protection Act was 52-42. That means the bill will not advance even though a majority of the Senate voted FOR the bill.
Unfortunately, it was a group of pro-abortion Democrats who couldn’t see their way to recognizing what all but seven countries in the world have acknowledged: that it is morally wrong to inflict pain on an innocent, vulnerable human being.
And take a look at the list that accompanies this story. Yep, there are the names of our two senators from New York, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand — among the 42 senators who voted against protecting babies from excruciating abortions.
Read the story Majority of U.S. Senate votes to advance Pain-Capable Child Protection Act, but Democrats block consideration from the National Right to Life News.
“Now we need to pray for courage — and a miracle.”
This was the response of Eileen Peter, one of the coordinators of the Rockland 40 Days for Life campaign, to the tumultuous summer that saw outcry of horror against the gruesome Planned Parenthood abortion videos.
And she’s right.
If we’re beside ourselves, outraged and disgusted by the barbaric videos, our first reaction needs to be prayer. And the second reaction should be to find the closest 40 Days for Life Campaign and sign up to pray where Planned Parenthood is. They are able to sell baby body parts because they have the parts to sell in the first place.
You can stop that through prayer and peaceful presence. You can be that witness. And you can be on the right side of history. It doesn’t require much – just overcoming a little initial fear. Continue reading
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