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Sunday, November 13, 2022
What Hell Must be Like, Father Walter Siszek S.J.
What Hell Must be Like
“ The world of solitary confinement is a universe of its
own...the isolation...the silence...the interrogations that would go on for 24
or 48 hours with no rest no sleep no food...the psychological...the minutes of
silence and solitary routine stretched out without end...
There was no such sort of human companionship to sustain you at Lubianka.
When you came back from an interrogation session here, you were on your own.
You could only torture yourself by going over and over the session in your own
mind, wondering whether what you had said was right, or what you might have
done better, agonizing again and again over every question and every answer.
Here there was no relief to be sought by talking it over with somebody else, by
asking advice (poor as it might prove to be), by sharing experiences, and by sympathizing with one another.
Solitary confinement, in short, must be very much like what some
theologians paint as the principal torment of hell: the soul, at last, recognizing its mistakes for what they were and condemned forever to the loss
of heaven, constantly tormenting itself with reproaches and tearing itself
apart because it still sees and understands and wants the things it has lost
forever, but knows it is condemned to lose forever because of its own choices,
its own failings, its own mistakes..."
From Walter J. Ciszek's book He Leadeth
me
Saturday, November 12, 2022
They wonder why we have a shortage of doctors in Canada
Well, this is probably why. As you know, doctors have lost their conscience rights! It's despicable how our Federal Government treats our doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/medically-assisted-death-canada-losing-maid-providers
Canada's expanding MAID program leading to a crisis in the supply of 'willing' doctors
The number of MAID deaths has grown from just over 1,000 in 2016, when assisted dying in Canada was formally legalized, to 31,644 in 2021
Sharon Kirkey
Troubling message
God bless you and your family Mike
First worldwide women's rosary honoring Blessed Virgin Mary announced Dec. 8, 2022
First worldwide women's rosary honoring Blessed Virgin Mary announced:
With the purpose of honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Worldwide Women’s Rosary
will be held for the first time on Dec. 8.
Denver Newsroom, Nov 8, 2022 / 16:02 pm
An initiative to hold a public women’s rosary that originated in Colombia has taken off worldwide with interested women connecting through Instagram.
With the purpose of honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Worldwide Women’s Rosary will be held for the first time on Dec. 8.
This initiative aims to publicly unite women in defense of churches (often vandalized by abortion advocates in Latin America), life, motherhood, the family, and to proudly say to the whole world “we are daughters of the Blessed Virgin Mary and we want to follow her example,” the organizers said.
Another aim of this rosary effort is to express the search for peace that only God can give and the firm conviction that every human person is equal in dignity.
The organizers recognize that the vocation to be a woman doesn’t depend on age, education, health, or any particular condition, “but on the conviction that God created each one of us and chose us to entrust us with a special mission.”
“We are called to be representatives of our Blessed Virgin Mary” in every word, event, or place that they can influence, the organizers said.
“We believe in the power of prayer to change the world, and especially in the power of the rosary, which Our Lady has strongly requested for the spiritual battle against evil in the world and in our countries,” they added.
The organizers are calling on women from all over the planet to join this effort to pray the rosary in public. “Mother, here are your daughters,” they said.
Women from more than 25 countries have already confirmed their participation, including women from Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Uganda, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
“It was the Virgin who wanted this initiative to spread worldwide,” said Juliana Illario, coordinator of the effort in Argentina.
“I immediately felt part of it,” she related in a conversation with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language sister news agency, “Our Virgin is the initiator and world organizer.”
“It’s all happening: women from different corners of Argentina contact me and they join in.”
“We trust that this is all the work of the Mother, and her daughters listen to her,” Illario said.
The Argentine coordinator noted that those promoting the worldwide rosary are women with different charisms, who have Mary as a model of women and Mother.
Finally, she hoped “that day would be filled with women praying together” because “no one guided by Mary makes a misstep.”
Fanny Tagle Arrizaga, another of the organizers from Chile, admitted that the initiative surprised them from the beginning, “because we realize how it’s growing every day. And the most incredible thing is the unity that is created with the different charisms and countries.”
“Our Mother’s love is making us realize that there are no differences between her daughters,” she said.
“We’re happy because we lay people are responsible for cooperating with the truth of Our Lord, and we have to comply with the utmost diligence with everything that Our Mother asks of us, especially praying the holy rosary that gives us so many graces,” she added.
For more information visit the rosary effort’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/rosario_mundial_de_mujeres/
This story was written by Julieta Villar and first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
School Board says educators should be able to express their “lived gender,” as, not allowing so, could lead to lawsuits.
So there you have it; anything goes now because the Board is afraid of lawsuits.
Never mind protecting the students. it seems they don't care about the mental health of their teachers either
Rebel News video below at the demonstration
If I had kids in school in this anti-God culture, I would seriously consider homeschooling
Friday, November 11, 2022
The Purest Act of Faith - from He Leadeth Me - Walter J. Ciszek S.J
“I had always trusted in God. I had always tried to find his will, to see his providence at work. I had always seen my life and my destiny as guided by his will. At some moments more consciously than at others, I had been aware of his promptings, his call, his promises, his grace. At times of crisis, especially, I tried to discover his will and follow it to the best of my ability. But this was a new vision, a totally new understanding, something more than just a matter of emphasis.
Up until now, I had always seen
my role—man's role—in the divine economy as an active one. Up to this time, I
had retained in my own hands the reins of all decisions, actions, and
endeavors; I saw it now as my task to "cooperate" with his grace, to
be involved to the end in the working out of salvation. God's will was
"out there" somewhere, hidden, yet clear and unmistakable. It was my
role—man's role— to discover what it was and then conform my will to that, and
so work at achieving the ends of his divine providence. I remained—man
remained—in essence, the master of my own destiny. Perfection consisted simply
in learning to discover God's will in every situation and then bending every
effort to do what must be done.
Now, with sudden and almost
blinding clarity and simplicity, I realized I had been trying to do something
with my own will and intellect that was at once too much and mostly all wrong.
God's will was not hidden somewhere "out there" in the situations in
which I found myself; the situations themselves were his will for me. What he
wanted was for me to accept these situations from his hands, to let go of the
reins and place myself entirely at his disposal. He was asking He of me an act
of total trust, allowing for no interference or restless striving on my part,
no reservations, no exceptions, no areas where I could set conditions or seem
to hesitate. He was asking for a complete gift of self, nothing held back. It
demanded absolute faith: faith in God's existence, in his providence, in his
concern for the minutest detail, in his power to sustain me, and in his love
protecting me. It meant losing the last hidden doubt, the ultimate fear that
God will not be there to bear you up.
It was something like that awful
eternity between anxiety and belief when a child first leans back and lets go
of all support whatever—only to find that the water truly holds him up and he
can float motionless and totally relaxed.
Once understood, it seemed so
simple. I was amazed it had taken me so long in terms of time and suffering to
learn this truth. Of course, we believe that we depend on God, that his will
sustains us in every moment of our life. But we are afraid to put it to the
test. There remains deep down in each of us a little nagging doubt, a little
knot of fear that we refuse to face or admit even to ourselves, that says,
"Suppose it isn't so." We are afraid to abandon ourselves totally
into God's hands for fear he will not catch us as we fall. It is the ultimate
criterion, the final test of all faith and all belief, and it is present in
each of us, lurking unvoiced in a closet of our mind we are afraid to open. It
is not really a question of trust in God at all, for we want very much to trust
him; it is really a question of our ultimate belief in his existence and his
providence, and it demands the purest act of faith..."
From Walter J. Ciszek's book He Leadeth me
Thank You and Overview of Ottawa's 2022 40 Days for Life Campaign
from Helena Szakowski
Church and Ministry Coordinator
Ottawa’s 2022 – 40 Days for Life Campaign
We Thank God, first and foremost, for enabling the planning and completion of our now 17th 40 Days for Life Campaign in Ottawa.
Thank you, particularly, to our Main Coordinator, Wanda Hartlin, for her perseverance, expert communications, and organization work, and to her family members, Bernie, and Cynthia, for providing our sound equipment and helping at our rallies. Thank you to our 40 Days Committee members for their support and advice, with special thanks to Jim Cairney for his visits to pastors leading up to the campaign. Also, to John Pacheco for our website, to Bernard Couture for updating our Facebook page, and to Debbie Duval of Campaign Life Coalition for obtaining our city permit and coordinating our Zoom meetings. Thank you to the preserving prayer warriors who were out at the vigil site many, many days, throughout the campaign, and for those who were providing us with hourly participation numbers. Thank you also to pastors, deacons, and religious sisters who carved out time to participate in the public prayer vigil.
It is with gratitude that I convey my sincere thankfulness to all 40 Days Reps who took on this important and vital role in the campaign. Your efforts have contributed to a most encouraging coverage of prayer hours whether at the vigil site, and in some cases through church Adoration vigils, or a prayer-at-home vigil day.
Our outreach to churches and ministry groups in the late summer resulted in 28 churches, 3 ministry groups, and 1 lay community, committing to out-on-the-street vigil hour participation. In some cases, churches committed to a vigil on the street for the first time. Overall, when considering the commitments on both of our website calendars, 22 of the 40 days were committed prayer days on the street, plus there were close to 4 committed prayer days in church, and 1 prayer-at-home vigil day, for a total of 27 committed days.
Thank you to 3 special ministry groups who took on-the-street vigil days, namely Couples for Christ, and the young adults from NET and CCO.
Thanks to our out-of-town pro-life visitors to our vigil site from St. John Parish, in Perth, ON, St Mary parish in Carleton Place, and 1 frequent visitor from Renfrew.
Thanks also to the Knights of Columbus Councils that got behind their parish’s 40 Days prayer vigil day. This is such a boost and an encouragement to assist with filling our vigil hours.
With the Supreme Court in the United States no longer providing protection for the abortion industry, abortion facilities are shutting their doors rapidly in that country. At the same time, God has been encouraging us to persevere with these campaigns, and as of today, according to the American headquarters website, 310 known lives have been saved, 2 abortion workers quit, and 14 abortion facilities closed, since just prior to this fall’s international campaign. The final international results for this fall’s campaign will be known in the coming weeks. To God be all the glory!
To date, these international 40 Days for Life vigils have resulted in closing 131 abortion facilities, saved well over 22,000 known lives, and led to 242 workers leaving the abortion industry. Tens of thousands of women and their families have been spared the pain and trauma of losing those little ones through these public prayer vigils. If there’s ever a time to be involved in this cause, it’s the present moment. May God bless you abundantly for all your efforts in support of these campaigns!
For the least of our brethren,
Helena Szakowski
Church and Ministry Coordinator
Ottawa’s 2022 – 40 Days for Life Campaign
Thursday, November 10, 2022
First worldwide women's rosary honoring Blessed Virgin Mary announced
First worldwide women's rosary honoring Blessed Virgin Mary announced: With the purpose of honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Worldwide Women’s Rosary will be held for the first time on Dec. 8.
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