Thursday, October 21, 2010
A Rosary for Life - the Joyful Mysteries - Annunciation of the Lord Parish- October 20, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
North American Martyrs
The USA and the Universal Church observed the Feast of the North American Martyrs yesterday October 19th. Most of us are not called to die for Jesus and to suffer the horrible physical sufffering these holy men were called to do but just the same we are called to make sacrifices and to sometimes leave our comfort zone when we do. We celebrate people like these Martyrs because they are the heroes of our faith. Their courage should inspire us.
Pro Life Students on Michael Coren show, CTS-TV, Thursday, Oct. 21
Tomorrow's Michael Coren Show on CTS-TV, Thursday, Oct. 21, will be all about the pro-life students who protest and get arrested on Canadian campuses. Michael will feature several of the Carleton students who got arrested earlier this month, two reps. from NCLN and Alanna Campbell from U of Calgary who's been part of the GAP displays there and Jojo Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform. The show airs at 6 pm and will be posted a day or two later on CTS-TV's website where it can be viewed at www.ctstv.com.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Project Truth : A Youth Defence Project
This pro-life advertizement was previously banned by the Irish government who said it was too 'political' for the airwaves. Now Project Truth, first produced by Youth Defence in 1996, has been set to some amazing footage of the unborn child in the womb. It's challenging, thought-provoking, beautiful and sad
Miracle in the Mine: A Story of Survival
A portion of the FOX News Special hosted by Geraldo Rivera
http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/geraldo/index.html
Monday, October 18, 2010
Angelus - Regina caeli 2010-10-17 from the Vatican
Before the Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI mentions the Canonization of our new Canadian Saint Andre Bessette
Roxanne's Law Aims To Protect Pregnant Women In Crisis
This video is very well done. Faye Sonier, legal counsel of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, does a great job answering some of the legal questions surrounding Rod Bruinooge's private members bill C-510 on abortion coercion. I posted it last week but decided to post it again for visitors who haven't seen it. Please take a few minutes to check it out.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Priest-Brother of Arrested Carleton Student: ‘I Can’t Be a Moderate Pro-Lifer Any Longer’ taken from Lifesite News
Friday October 15, 2010
Priest-Brother of Arrested Carleton Student: ‘I Can’t Be a Moderate Pro-Lifer Any Longer’
By Patrick B. Craine
from Lifesite News http://www.lifesitenews.com/.
OTTAWA, Ontario, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The arrests of five pro-life students at Carleton University last week should inspire pro-lifers to step up and engage in the pro-life battle, said Fr. Simon Lobo, brother of arrested Carleton Lifeline President Ruth Lobo, in a powerful homily in Ottawa on Sunday.
"Yes - yes I am the brother of Ruth Lobo,” said the priest, a member of the Companions of the Cross community. “I've never been more proud to admit that, actually, than I am now."
The students – four from Carleton and one from Queen’s University - were arrested by Ottawa city police on Carleton’s campus on October 4, and fined $130 each. They were preparing to set up the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), which compares abortion to past atrocities through graphic imagery, as a protest in the university’s Tory Quad. The university had denied them the use of that central outdoor location, which has been used by other groups in the past, instead telling them that they could only set up the display in an out-of-the-way campus building.
“This is where we've come as a society,” Fr. Lobo told his parishioners at St. Maurice Parish. “As Canadians we pride ourselves on being so tolerant, and yet it seems the tolerance only goes in one direction – and it's not in favour of life, and it's not in favour of Catholicism at all."
Fr. Lobo told LifeSiteNews that even though he is a frequent participant in the National March for Life, Life Chain, and 40 Days for Life, the incident has convicted him all the more. “I can’t be a moderate pro-lifer any longer,” he said. “It’s become something that’s drawing the line in the sand for a lot of people.”
It would be easy to blame the university, the police, or “those who promote a radically liberal agenda” for the arrests, he said in the homily, "but you and I are part of the problem, because we have put up with too much for too long.”
Fr. Lobo noted that Canadians' tax dollars have fully funded abortion for decades, as well as academic institutions such as Carleton. He also noted that municipal tax dollars pay for the police, who were called in to arrest the students.
"On an annual basis, I would suggest that as a parish ... – indirectly – we give more money to support abortions and the pro-choice cause then we give to donate to support women in crisis pregnancies and the pro-life movement,” he said. “Does that bother you?”
Fr. Lobo called the graphic images of abortion used in GAP, which are often seen as controversial, “disgusting.”
“But they're also true and accurate. Abortion is disgusting,” he added.
He said that his sister Ruth “is giving thanks because she has received the gift of life. She is like the one leper who went back to thank Jesus." He explained that Ruth was born in India, and her birth mother dropped her off at an orphanage. Ten months later, on October 1st – celebrated by Catholics as the memorial of St. Therese de Lisieux - Ruth arrived in Canada, was adopted by Rev. Lobo’s parents, and given the baptismal name: Ruth Therese.
"Twenty-two years later, almost to the day, Ruth is in handcuffs because all she cares about is that other little girls and little boys like her would be able to make it to a Thanksgiving weekend so that they can also give thanks for the gift of life," he said.
“What are we going to do about this? What are we going to do about this?” he asked. “We've got to do more. We've got to get educated.”
Fr. Lobo urged his parishioners to write Carleton’s president, to get out to the ballot box and vote for pro-life politicians, and to come up with other ideas for promoting life.
“The battle has come to our doorstep,” he insisted. “Are you willing to step up and engage in the fight with your minds, with your hearts, with your spirits, and with action?”
Listen to Fr. Simon Lobo’s homily here. http://www.stmauricechurch.com/playHomily.html
Contact Information:
Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte, President and Vice-Chancellor
503 Tory Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Tel: 613 520-3801
Fax: 613 520-4474
Email: presidents_office@carleton.ca
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canadian MP Decries ‘Censorship’ at Carleton U over Pro-Life Arrests
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10101210.html
Carleton University Rep.: Pro-Life Students Arrested for Trespassing because of Content
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10100716.html
Five Canadian Pro-Life University Students Arrested for Setting up Display
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10100402.html
Saint Joseph, Patron of Canada and the Universal Church, Pray for Us
Priest-Brother of Arrested Carleton Student: ‘I Can’t Be a Moderate Pro-Lifer Any Longer’
By Patrick B. Craine
from Lifesite News http://www.lifesitenews.com/.
OTTAWA, Ontario, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The arrests of five pro-life students at Carleton University last week should inspire pro-lifers to step up and engage in the pro-life battle, said Fr. Simon Lobo, brother of arrested Carleton Lifeline President Ruth Lobo, in a powerful homily in Ottawa on Sunday.
"Yes - yes I am the brother of Ruth Lobo,” said the priest, a member of the Companions of the Cross community. “I've never been more proud to admit that, actually, than I am now."
The students – four from Carleton and one from Queen’s University - were arrested by Ottawa city police on Carleton’s campus on October 4, and fined $130 each. They were preparing to set up the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), which compares abortion to past atrocities through graphic imagery, as a protest in the university’s Tory Quad. The university had denied them the use of that central outdoor location, which has been used by other groups in the past, instead telling them that they could only set up the display in an out-of-the-way campus building.
“This is where we've come as a society,” Fr. Lobo told his parishioners at St. Maurice Parish. “As Canadians we pride ourselves on being so tolerant, and yet it seems the tolerance only goes in one direction – and it's not in favour of life, and it's not in favour of Catholicism at all."
Fr. Lobo told LifeSiteNews that even though he is a frequent participant in the National March for Life, Life Chain, and 40 Days for Life, the incident has convicted him all the more. “I can’t be a moderate pro-lifer any longer,” he said. “It’s become something that’s drawing the line in the sand for a lot of people.”
It would be easy to blame the university, the police, or “those who promote a radically liberal agenda” for the arrests, he said in the homily, "but you and I are part of the problem, because we have put up with too much for too long.”
Fr. Lobo noted that Canadians' tax dollars have fully funded abortion for decades, as well as academic institutions such as Carleton. He also noted that municipal tax dollars pay for the police, who were called in to arrest the students.
"On an annual basis, I would suggest that as a parish ... – indirectly – we give more money to support abortions and the pro-choice cause then we give to donate to support women in crisis pregnancies and the pro-life movement,” he said. “Does that bother you?”
Fr. Lobo called the graphic images of abortion used in GAP, which are often seen as controversial, “disgusting.”
“But they're also true and accurate. Abortion is disgusting,” he added.
He said that his sister Ruth “is giving thanks because she has received the gift of life. She is like the one leper who went back to thank Jesus." He explained that Ruth was born in India, and her birth mother dropped her off at an orphanage. Ten months later, on October 1st – celebrated by Catholics as the memorial of St. Therese de Lisieux - Ruth arrived in Canada, was adopted by Rev. Lobo’s parents, and given the baptismal name: Ruth Therese.
"Twenty-two years later, almost to the day, Ruth is in handcuffs because all she cares about is that other little girls and little boys like her would be able to make it to a Thanksgiving weekend so that they can also give thanks for the gift of life," he said.
“What are we going to do about this? What are we going to do about this?” he asked. “We've got to do more. We've got to get educated.”
Fr. Lobo urged his parishioners to write Carleton’s president, to get out to the ballot box and vote for pro-life politicians, and to come up with other ideas for promoting life.
“The battle has come to our doorstep,” he insisted. “Are you willing to step up and engage in the fight with your minds, with your hearts, with your spirits, and with action?”
Listen to Fr. Simon Lobo’s homily here. http://www.stmauricechurch.com/playHomily.html
Contact Information:
Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte, President and Vice-Chancellor
503 Tory Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Tel: 613 520-3801
Fax: 613 520-4474
Email: presidents_office@carleton.ca
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canadian MP Decries ‘Censorship’ at Carleton U over Pro-Life Arrests
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10101210.html
Carleton University Rep.: Pro-Life Students Arrested for Trespassing because of Content
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10100716.html
Five Canadian Pro-Life University Students Arrested for Setting up Display
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10100402.html
Relics of Saint Brother Andre and Saint Marguerite d'Youville
Today our parish had relics of St. Marguerite d'Youville and Saint Andre of Montreal on a small altar which was set up at the front of the church. Parishioners could venerate these relics before or after the masses. These two first class relics will be installed in the Church's altar during the Consecration Ceremony next Saturday Evening. Below are a few photos that I took after the 10:30AM mass this morning.
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In the photo above, parishioners are lining up after mass to venerate the relics
Above are Gord Duncan and Ralph Steller members of the Knights of Columbus handing out pamphlets about the Knights for their Membership Drive.
Saint Andre Bessette Pray for us
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