Happy Birthday Mother Mary and our week at Butternut Bay

Happy Birthday,
mama Mary!

LIke Mary, the moon reflects the greater light!

Happy birthday mama Mary! We love you! Thanks for being such a wonderful mother to us!

Mike and I and my baby sister Barbara will be going home tomorrow and I will post some pictures and videos. It was a glorious week, the weather was good but today it was absolutely perfect. Barb and I went to Mass at Saint Francis Xavier at 12:10 and after mass, we did a little bit of a tour of Brockville. Actually, we were looking for a beer store but it became a tour because we got lost 😂

What a beautiful town on the beautiful Saint Lawrence. Butternut Bay is a few miles West of the town and is probably one of the most beautiful cottage areas in Ontario. Beautiful Victorian-style homes immaculately maintained line the hillsides along the road leading down to the dock of Butternut Bay. 

This evening after Barb’s yummy spaghetti dinner Mike noticed the bright full moon over the water so Barb and I went down to the dock and Barb took a few really beautiful photos. Thank you Mama Mary for this dainty 

Barb and Maureen looking for a beer store in Brockville

Walking tour of the grounds at the cottage

Brief history of Butternut Bay and the green cottage

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Saturday, September 10, 2022

I'm back. We arrived home Friday afternoon between 4 and 5 PM and I finally got around to organizing my photos etc and videos and it wasn't easy. It was probably me but I'll blame it on my computer.  

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Photos inside beautiful historic Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church Brockville ON below

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After mass at noon at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Brockville

we wished our Lady a Happy Birthday!

Photos taken by Barb. 

Thanks, little sister. 

left to right

Mike Ward, Tom Donnelly, Maureen Ward

Tom Donnelly is the brother of Pat Donnelly. 

In fact, the Donnelly cottage is right across the road 

from the cottage, we rented from Denise Stanfield. 

As the story goes young Pat and Gordie met one summer 

while at their cottages and the rest is history

The photo above was taken on the verandah of the Law Cottage.

 Mike remembers in remarkable detail much of his time spent at the cottage 

with his mom and dad, Evelyn and Cid Ward, and his younger Tom. I will elaborate later.

1981 Catholic Charismatic Conference Queen's University Kingston - August 1981

I'm like a dog with a bone I guess. I am searching for information on the Conference which was held at Queens University, Kingston ON, in August 1981, I remember staying with my parents in a large camper trailer in someone's back yard. I can't even remember who they were but they were acquaintances of my parents, Jim and Elaine Maloney. 

I have lost all information on the Conference so I decided to do a search of newspapers but I haven't had too much luck. I found these links below but I can't access the information because I need an account to do so and I don't want to do that for now anyways. 

 https://www.newspapers.com/search/?query=Catholic%20Charismatic%20Conference&t=27064

https://research.digitalkingston.ca/research-tools-and-tips/newspapers/1927-to-1984

I remember a packed auditorium for all the masses which were very lively with lots of singing and worshiping. Most of the songs I hadn't heard before but I loved them: mostly from  Carey Landry and the Saint Louis Jesuits as well as from the Songs of Praise books. 

There were numerous workshops and spectacular talks. I remember one of the workshops was entitled "Suffering the human condition" or something like that. The speakers were amazing and all the participants were filled with joy in spite of the rain which poured down on all of us throughout the entire weekend as we made our way about from one part of the University to another. . Since many of the workshops and talks were held simultaneously, we were limited in our choices. 

I can't find anything about the conference anywhere: diddly squat. But I'm not giving up

The Theme of the Conference was 

" Be it done Unto Me According to your word" and I remember the melody ( and most of the lyrics ) simply because we sang it over and over and over.  I am trying to find out who composed the hymn. It is very beautiful. 

BE IT DONE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD  ( as I remember it )

  ANTIPHON  Be it done to me according to Your Word, let Your will be done!

VERSE 1 We will celebrate  Your call to recreate. We are your servants o Lord! 

VERSE 2 May our hearts be one with Mary and her Son: Sharing Your love with them!

VERSE 3 Holy Spirit come, Lord  of life, Lord of love, bringing the Word to flesh!

FYI  Below is some history of the Charismatic movement in Canada. 

My good friend Gemma O'Sullivan, the sister of Father Joe Kane O.M.I and my mother's first cousin Audrey Guillet, whom I have always called aunt Audrey, filled me in on some of the background of the Renewal in Ottawa. Both father Gerry and father Joe were missionary priests with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at the same time, Gemma told me that her Brother Father Joe Kane was was really impressed with what he was seeing in this new movement: and urged her to see what she could do to start a prayer group in Ottawa 

I surmise that  Father Gerry Guillet approached aunt Audrey in the same way as well because she held the first prayer meeting in her home on Allen Blvd. in Vanier. I imagine Gemma was one of the participants but I'm not sure. Aunt Audrey invited several parishioners of Assumption Parish I believe but I am not exactly sure. She said there was a howling wind during the entire prayer meeting. She was happy the roof didn't cave in. 

Anyways  Gemma approached the priest at Saint Martin de Porres Church in Bells Corners and asked him if he would give permission to start a Prayer group at Saint Martin de Porre:  he cautiously said ok, but he said he would keep an eye on it to see how it goes  Her pastor was a newly ordained Priest Father Bob Bedard. Father Bedard got hooked! 

I don't know any of the dates of these events but I thought I would write this down before I forget everything. Probably the 70's? 

General Information on the Charismatic Renewal 

https://romans1015.com/catholic-charismatic-renewal/

https://teresa-httpsitesgooglecomsitefaithful.blogspot.com/search?q=charismatic

So far this is all I could find about this Conference but I'm not giving up

And I took a few odds-and-ends screenshots from the archives of Renewal Ministries around the same time ( 1981 ) but unfortunately for me I believe they only covered Conferences in the US 

As well I took a few screenshots from the Kingston Whig-Standard because that since they advertized the Conference that there might be a possibility that perhaps they covered some of it although being a secular newspaper probably they didn.t 

For what they are worth here they are

After that, I took my search to the Catholic Register in Canada and I found that they did have some viewable archives dating back to before the Conference but then I had trouble getting an account to view what they had so I just gave up cause I had a headache. Maybe one of these days I'll try again

Maybe, maybe not.

Abortion org. granted millions from Trudeau spreads lie about late term abortion in Canada

Abortion org. granted millions from Trudeau spreads li: 

'The Trudeau Government immediately stop funding an organization that peddles lies about abortion in Canada.'

September 1, 2022 (Campaign Life Coalition) – A Canadian abortion activist organization, which has received over $12M in grants from the Trudeau Liberal government over the past two years (here and here), has been caught spreading misinformation about abortion on its website.

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, a top Canadian pro-abortion organization — which also goes by the name Planned Parenthood Canada — falsely claims on its website that the latest an abortion can be committed in Canada is at 23 weeks and 6 days gestation.

“No providers in Canada offer abortion care beyond 23 weeks and 6 days. When they are beyond 23 weeks and 6 days, many Canadians end up having to travel to the United States to access services with little guidance or support from their governments,” Action Canada’s website states.

This claim leads visitors to the website to believe that late-term abortions of preborn children, who could survive outside of their mothers’ wombs, do not exist in Canada. This misinformation, unfortunately, has not remained confined to the pro-abortion website. It has also been disseminated by media outlets that have uncritically used this misinformation in reports without first checking the facts. For instance, a report from CTV earlier this year outlining the legal status of abortion in Canada not only quoted Action Canada’s misinformation but linked to it as well.

The truth is that late-term abortions do happen in Canada and they happen regularly.

Late-term abortions can be committed in Canada because there is nothing legally to stop them from happening. In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada in the Morgentaler decision threw out the country’s 1969 law that governed when an abortion can be committed. The Court, at that time, tasked Parliament with creating a new law that would legally protect children before birth. An attempt was made, but such a law never happened. Because of this, abortion persists in a legal vacuum to this day, leaving the pre-born, throughout the entire journey of pregnancy, with no legal protection. This means that abortion is technically permitted throughout all nine months of pregnancy, even right up to the moment of birth. While various provincial medical governing bodies have abortion guidelines, these guidelines do not have the force of law behind them.

There are stories about late-term abortions happening in Canada in mainstream media.

In a 2021 article published in the Montreal Gazette, Lise Ravary, who identifies as “pro-choice,” wrote about late-term abortions happening in Canada. She anecdotally related the experience of a McGill professor at the faculty of law and of medicine regarding cases of late-term abortion. “One woman wanted a late term abortion because she had just learned that her fetus had a cleft lip, an easy thing to repair. The other was a student who ‘forgot’ to get an abortion because she was too busy with her classes. They both got what they wanted in the end,” she wrote. “It should shock every decent Canadian,” she added.

In another Montreal Gazette article, Charlie Fidelman wrote about a woman who aborted her baby in a Montreal hospital at 35 weeks. According to Fidelman in the 2016 report, the woman “who ended her pregnancy at 35 weeks says the experience was so painful that she will never speak about it in public again.”

The evidence for late-term abortions in Canada is not only anecdotal. Hard data proves that late-term abortions do occur.

Researcher and writer Patricia Maloney, who publishes at Run with Life, is the preeminent pro-life source for tracking late-term abortions in Canada. She not only tracks publicly available data and statistics in Canada on this topic, but she also receives exclusive information from government-controlled institutions that track this data. They provide her with exclusive information which she publishes on her website.

Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), a government-controlled institution which tracks Canada’s health systems, reported 10 pre-born babies aborted at 25 to 28 weeks of gestation in the 2019-2020 period. In the 2018-2019 period, there were 20 pre-born babies aborted at 25 weeks’ and greater gestation. The CIHI has also tracked late-term abortions for previous years, as documented by Maloney.

Jeff Gunnarson, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, said that it’s not surprising that abortion-promoting organizations would want to hide the fact that late-term abortions are happening in Canada.

“For some reason, the abortion industry is reluctant to tell the truth that late-term abortions are happening in Canada. Why? Perhaps they fear that if Canadians knew this truth, it might wake them up to the abhorrent nature of all abortions.”

Gunnarson said that it doesn't take a biologist to recognize the truth that these babies are humans and have their own brainwaves, beating hearts, and finger prints. “They have bodies that are different from their mothers’ bodies. They look just like already born babies,” he said.

Gunnarson is not the only Canadian leader to draw attention to late-term abortion. People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, who is known to be “pro-choice," communicated to his supporters last July that “late-term abortions happen in Canada” and that he finds the practice “abhorrent.”

“Late-term abortion (in the third trimester) is akin to infanticide and should be prohibited,” he said.

Gunnarson is demanding that the Trudeau Government immediately stop funding an organization that peddles verifiable misinformation and which is relied upon by media outlets and legislators. He is concerned that such an organization could have serious, adverse effects on Canadian public policy decisions and legislation.

“Why aren’t Canadian media outlets checking their facts, holding Action Canada to account for spreading misinformation about abortion? What else may Action Canada be lying about? And worse still, why is Mr. Trudeau awarding millions of dollars to an organization that spreads such misinformation which can be potentially dangerous for public policy decision-making?”

“I call upon Prime Minister Trudeau and the Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, to immediately stop funding this organization, and others like it, that peddle misinformation about abortion,” he said.

Gunnarson said that Action Canada needs to be held accountable for its misinformation that masks the genocide committed against human children in Canada who are yet to be born.

“Action Canada cannot be trusted to tell the truth when it comes to abortion. It should not be the recipient of a single dollar of government funding,” he said.

Editor’s note: CLC’s Director of Communications Pete Baklinski contributed to this report.

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I’M PRO-LIFE AND TOOK THE COVID VACCINE. I NOW REGRET IT By: Patricia Maloney

Me too Pat😞

https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/clc-blog/id/213/title/i-m-pro-life-and-took-the-covid-vaccine-i-now-regret-it