GREATER THAN THE TSUNAMI CATASTROPHE

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: "Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even one year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together."

So the doctor said: "Okay, what do you want me to do?"
She said: "I need you to terminate my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this."
The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: "I have a good solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you."
She smiled, happy that the doctor was going to help her. "What's your plan?"
He replied: "Let's kill the one in your arms. It's quicker and easier."

The lady was horrified. "What in the world are you saying!!"

The doctor continued, "You won't have to take care two babies at the same time. You can have a good rest before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it does not matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you get rid of the one in your arms."

"How terrible! You want to kill a living child!!"
"I agree," the doctor replied, "but you seemed to be okay with it, so I gave you the best 'choice'. There is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb."


Here then is the bottom-line choice:

Love says I sacrifice myself for the good of the other person. Abortion says I sacrifice the other person for the good of myself.

If you choose the first, please forward this message. God save the children!

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“May your kingdom come”

Despite sin and the willful frustration of God’s grace, his kingdom or reign is slowly but inexorably filling all of creation. As Isaiah predicted: “…the word that goes for the from my mouth will not return to me empty , without carrying our my will and succeeding in what is was sent to do”( Is 55:1).

Jesus Christ has already overcome sin and evil in the world(Jn 16:33); the true history of the world is the sort of God’s grace ratifying Christ's victory and gradually transforming and gracing all of creation until the Parousia when Christ will be all in all. As Paul wrote to the Romans:

“We are well aware that the whole world of creation, until this time, has been groaning in labor pains. And not only that: we too, who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we are groaning inside ourselves, waiting with eagerness for our bodies to be set free.”

Sometimes when we reflect on the shape of the world is in, it takes a sustained act of faith to believe that things in fact getting better and the grace and kingdom of God are spreading. But our faith is well-founded; we’re assured that “however much sin increased, grace was always greater” (Rom 5:20). The grace of Jesus is all powerful and will transform us and all creation but we have a role in that process.

To be continued.

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Refusing State Sex Education Lands Parents in Jail

Global Groups Defend German Families

             MADRID, Spain, MARCH 18, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A growing number of organizations are defending the rights of German families to remove their children from state-sponsored sex education, as more parents have been imprisoned for refusing to send their children to the classes.
           The case of one woman, Irene Wiens, who refused to send her children to the classes in 2006 is now before the European Court of Human Rights. 
Her husband already served a six-week jail term, and Irene Wiens is now in jail.
          The couple refused to send their children to the classes, saying that they present a permissive view of human sexuality in conflict with their religious convictions.
            According to the U.S.-based Alliance Defense Fund, which is representing the case, four other parents have also been imprisoned.
In Spain, Professionals for Ethics is promoting a declaration in favor of Wiens, which has been endorsed by 43 associations from Spain, Ireland, Italy, the United States, Kenya and other countries.
Just this week at the United Nations in New York, the Holy See's permanent observer reminded that parents have a right to educate their children according to their beliefs, "including education about authentic human love, marriage, and the family."
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Dear Brothers and sisters,


           Please Kindly reflect on this small article which is published in the news from Rome. i would like to say something about it. Is it fair to do so by force, are they doing for the development or the destruction? As far as i observe, the United Nations is also doing on the favor of evil. Who has the right to imprison as they claim always human right now and then. Who is the responsible for the children? the UN or the parents? The world is in darkness, the place where evil seems to prevail. I remember the prayer to St Micheal the Archangel. sometimes the voice of the people cannot be true if they yield to the way of evil.
        As described, the US-AID is really evil, i strongly condemn them. Here in this Philippines also these people work on politic and deceive people. As of now they are planning against the catholic church because the church teaches the right path, to be moral. they do not want, this US-AID is also governed by the US politicians, so as to expend their New World project, which started by the Kissinger. 
        We Catholics should be praying for our future, there is Tsunami, the eruption of volcanoes, the third message of the Fatima is revealed for us to prepare for the last days of our world. I am not afraid because i know Jesus, and i pray to him, i know he loves me and all of his created beings and the Universe.

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“Holy is your name”

For the Hebrews of Jesus’ times, a person’s name contained in some way the sense of who the person was. It summed up and, in a sense, ‘was’ the person. To know a person’s name gave you power over him or her and so, after Jacob had wrestled” with God all night, he asked God for his name but was not given it (Gn 32:26-31).
As creatures, we can neither understand nor ever ‘know’ the infinite God, nor could we ever have the least power over the Lord. However, Jesus has revealed that the name of God is holy.’ God’s holiness is the fullness of infinite being without the least bit of the negativity that is sin.
We who know the brokenness, division and isolation of sin cannot really ‘know’ experientially the infinite goodness, love and holiness extent that we as human beings can understand, God has revealed who he is by sending his Son, his ‘Word’ to us and becoming one of us in Jesus Christ.
“The word became flesh; he lives among us and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the father as only son of the father, full of grace and truth.” --Jn 1:14


As Jesus told Philip when he asked to see the Father, “Anyone who has seen me, has seen the father” (Jn 14:9). The first letter of John sums up very beautifully for us who God is. It is as if the author were trying to describe in one word the infinite, all powerful, almighty God; and so he wrote: “God is love…” (1 Jn 4:16).

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“Our Father”

“Our father in heaven, holy is your name; may your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not bring us to the test, but deliver us from evil.”

“Our father in heaven”

When Jesus prayed to his father in the garden of Gethsemane, he called him ‘abba’ (Mk 14:36), and St. Paul reveals that we are to call our father ‘abba’ as well (Gal 4:6, Rom 8:15).

‘Abba’ is an Aramaic word (the language spoken by Jesus and his contemporaries) which translates into something like ‘Papa’ in English or ‘Tatay’ in Pilipino. It is a word a very small child would use in speaking to a father whom the child loves and trusts totally; it implies a Deep and loving intimacy between the two.

That is how we are to relate to God our father as children aware of the infinite love of our father for each of us. Like Jesus, we are in no way to be childish but we should develop the wonderful virtues of a child: a deep trust and love of God , a sense of joy and continuing wonder at all the beauty in life and a humility based on the truth of our relationship as creature to our infinite Creator.

As Jesus’ prayer also notes, our father is in heaven.’ This is not another ‘place.’ People sometimes have the perhaps unconscious tendency to think heaven as “up there” and hell as “down there.” On the contrary, ‘heaven’ is a different way of being, outside of time and space; it is the realm of the spiritual in which God is beyond our senses but present to us. It is the goal and fulfillment of our lives.

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Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel

On Sunday April 24th 1994, Pope John Paul II recommended this prayer be used by all Catholics as a prayer for the Church when he said:

'"May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians: 'Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power' (Ephesians 6:10). The Book of Revelation refers to this same battle, recalling before our eyes the image of St. Michael the Archangel (Revelation 12:7). Pope Leo XIII certainly had a very vivid recollection of this scene when, at the end of the last century, he introduced a special prayer to St. Michael throughout the Church. Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world."'

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host - by the Divine Power of God - cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits, who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

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