Sanity prevails in Ohio - abortion declared non-essential service

Ohio AG orders providers to cease surgical abortions during pandemic, Planned Parenthood insists abortion is "essential" - NRL News Today: 
By Lisa Bourne 

Ohio’s attorney general has ordered two of the state’s abortion providers to stop performing surgical abortion to conserve personal protective gear during the COVID-19 outbreak, the order applying to abortion facilities statewide. At the same time the nation’s largest abortion business put forth the claim that abortion was “essential” and would continue at its Oho sites.

Attorney General Dave Yost sent letters on Friday to two facilities — Women’s Med Center in Dayton and Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio’s Cincinnati Surgery Center — ordering them to stop conducting any procedures, such as abortion, that require the use of personal protective equipment.

Father Tomaso Jozef Jochemczyk Processes with The Blessed Sacrament

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-priest-in-italy-bravely-processes-with-eucharist-to-bless-coronavirus-stricken-country

A priest in Italy boldly carried the Blessed Sacrament in procession through his small town, blessing his parish, his diocese, and the whole country stricken by the coronavirus. 

Priests celebrate a public Mass from the roof of their parish

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/italian-priests-celebrate-mass-on-rooftop-so-faithful-can-participate-from-their-balconies

March 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Italian priests from Naples found a creative way to celebrate a public Mass this past Sunday during the coronavirus lockdown, doing so from the roof of their parish with many people joining in prayer from nearby balconies.

Ralph Martin - Renewal Ministries - The Annunciation

Jesus I trust in You

First Richard Decarie now Jim Karahalios

The Federal Conservative Party has ousted yet another Leadership Candidate, 

and it appears to be because of his Social Conservative views.

I'm starting to think that the Federal PCs are just as corrupt as the Liberals. 

Sounds like it is a few self-appointed red Tories that control the Party.

March 25th 2020 - Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

• In honour of Our Lady and our parish of  we will be hosting mass at 6 pm today online through YouTube. Make sure to check our YouTube site for 6 pm. 
                                                                    
  

• Annunciation of the Lord Parish will be offering drive-by confession                 (  from 7-9 pm this evening / details below )

• Legion of Mary - Acies Ceremony                                                                                          ( 6:30 pm details below )

Updates with Father Rob Arsenault 

Annunciation of the Lord Parish, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Annunciation will be offering drive-by confession

 this evening from 7-9 pm. 

For instructions on participating, watch the video below:

Legion of Mary - Acies Ceremony

This year, in lieu of the annual Acies where we reconsecrate ourselves to Our Lady

on the feast of the Annunciation we are recommending an alternative to us gathering for the ceremony. This year we are hoping you will join us in doing a Spiritual Acies. 

These prayers in a sense are going to take the place of the spiritual portion of the Acies. 

Everyone will be on their own doing this in their own homes.

PROGRAM for Wednesday 25 March:

At 6:30 pm we will begin with the opening prayers in the Tessera,

followed by five decades of the Holy Rosary.

Then right after we will recite the Catena.

Then in front of a statue or image of Our Lady we will renew our consecration to Jesus through Mary by reciting the following prayer: "I am all yours, my Queen, my Mother, and all that I have is yours."

Then recite the concluding prayers in the Tessera.

At 7:30 pm EST please pause and recollect as 

Father Shroff will recite an act of consecration for the Regia as a whole.
If you do join us in this Spiritual Acies, 

we would love to know so would you kindly reply to Jennifer Snell Jennifersnell2000@yahoo.ca

Prayers of the Tessera

March 24, 2020 - Urgently Needed - Prayer and Repentance

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."  2 Chronicles 7:14 New International Version

Here is a link to Daniel's prayer of Repentance for his people 
http://www.usccb.org/bible/daniel/9

Evangelical Fellowship of Canada calls for a Global Day of Prayer and fasting

My hope is that all our political leaders, would start to recognize that we are nothing without God. I feel a sense of urgency about this. Prayer and repentance is so very important right now and fasting if you are able. Here in Canada, we have all but abandoned God. We need only think of the  attacks on human life, young and old alike. Now is the time: now the hour to turn to Him in prayer and beg Him for His mercy.

The words below are taken from
Message on the Combat against the Coronavirus, COVID-19ON MAR 21, 2020 by Cardinal Burke 

"In the same light, a person of faith cannot consider the present calamity in which we find ourselves without considering also how distant our popular culture is from God. It is not only indifferent to His presence in our midst but openly rebellious toward Him and the good order with which He has created us and sustains us in being. 

We need only think of the commonplace violent attacks on human life, male and female, which God has made in His own image and likeness (Gn 1, 27), attacks on the innocent and defenseless unborn, and on those who have the first title to our care, those who are heavily burdened with serious illness, advanced years, or special needs. We are daily witnesses to the spread of violence in a culture which fails to respect human life.

Likewise, we need only to think of the pervasive attack upon the integrity of human sexuality, of our identity as man or woman, with the pretense of defining for ourselves, often employing violent means, a sexual identity other than that given to us by God. With ever greater concern, we witness the devastating effect on individuals and families of the so-called “gender theory.”"

Thankfully some of our Government leaders are acknowledging our dependency on God:

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has declared Wednesday March 25th a national day of fasting and prayer as the West African country grapples with Covid-19. click here
“The disease is not an ordinary one and it demands spiritual solution to send it packing. Several terrible epidemics in the past had always been tackled through spiritual means even when there was no medical or scientific know-how," Adetoyese was quoted as saying.

Gov. Justice orders West Virginians to stay home;

announces statewide day of prayer on March 25th at this link

Mayor Cooper declared Sunday March 22, 2020 a 'day of prayer' in Nashville amid coronavirus pandemic click here

Malacanang declares fourth week of March 2020 as National Week of Prayer amid COVID-19 crisis

Read morehttps://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/3/22/malacanang-declares-fourth-week-of-march-national-week-of-prayer.html

Councillors of the City of Steinbach during a city council meeting last week, declared Sunday March 22, 2020 to be a Day of Prayer click here


Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta declared on March 17, 2020
that March 21,2020 be National Day of Prayer. click here
“We cannot ignore the need to turn to God. In these circumstances as we have done in the past as a nation, we have always turned to God first to give thanks for the many blessings that He has bestowed on our nation. "But we also turn to God to share our fears, our apprehensions, but also to seek his guidance and ever-present protection,” the President said.

President Trump declares Sunday a National Day of Prayer amid COVID-19 outbreak at this link