CCCB - Statement on the Persecution of Christians

IN HIS NAME

https://www.cccb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/In_His_Name_EN_FINAL.pdf

Dysconnected - the real story behind the transgender explosion

https://runawayplanetpictures.vhx.tv/packages/dysconnected/videos/dysconnected-trailer

from the trailer and this is frightening to say the least

"This is the one condition in the whole world where we would let a child self-diagnose themselves as being the opposite sex"

Address Christian Persecution Lest “Nigeria is overrun as is case of Afghanistan”: Bishop

Address Christian Persecution Lest “Nigeria is overrun as is case of Afghanistan”: Bishop: Bishop Jude Ayodeji Arogundade of Nigeria’s Ondo Diocese has pleaded with lawmakers in the United Kingdom (UK) to push their government and other nations to help address the persecution of Christians in the West African nation lest it is overrun by terrorists.

Assisted suicide, there is nothing “Medical” about it.

40 Days for Life Ottawa Fall 2022

 This year’s 40 Days for Life campaign came to a close earlier this month, on the first Sunday of November. We know that not all of the 480 hours were covered, but I’m trusting that the Lord had people praying at the vigil site, and privately, at the times when it was needed. He is concerned about the lives of the littles ones more than we could possibly be.

The Closing Rally was well attended with about 70 people taking part. We were fortunate to 

have Archbishop Marcel Damphousse attend, lead us in prayer and give us his blessing. 

Helena, our church and ministry coordinator, gave a very thorough and interesting run down 

of the overall participation. To date, since September 28, 2022, it’s reported that 310 moms 

changed their minds and let their pregnancies go full term to deliver their babies.

 

Deacon Charles Fink gave us an update on Father Anthony Van Hee’s criminal charges. 

Father Van Hee was charged with violating the province’s Safe Access to Abortion Services Act

on October 24, 2018. In case you haven’t heard, the charges have recently been withdrawn. 

If you would like a copy of Deacon Chuck’s talk, let me know.

 

Our guest speaker was psychotherapist, Karine Langley PhD, RP. Her talk was focused on the 

pro-choice rant, “my body, my choice” and she relayed her experience on how abortion impacts 

women and men in multiple ways, physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. 

My husband, for one, was amazed at the long-term repercussions that abortion leaves.  

 

In a previous email, I sent out a link to a video called, The Procedure, produced by Choice42. 

Director of Choice42, Laura Klassen is interviewed on the Faytene Show to talk about her 

pro-life work and explain the making of the video. 

To see the interview, go to, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOqQHnvTSx0

 

Marg Mountain does a weekly picket at the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus and she would 

welcome more participants. Here’s a short outline of this ministry.

 

In the silence…… are you being called? 

Every Sunday from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm, since 1983 people have been walking in 

front of the Civic hospital with signs saying ‘Adoption not Abortion’ 

and ‘Abortion kills Babies’. The sole purpose of this totally legal witness is to remind 

others that abortion is never the solution. It is not to make those who have had abortions

 feel guilty but rather to change hearts and minds so others might rethink the decision

 to kill their unborn child. We know that over the years at least two babies have been 

saved from abortion because of their mothers’ reading our signs.

 Some of those walking, do so in prayerful silence, some chat with friends and others 

listen to podcasts on cell phones. This witness allows you to meet like-minded people, 

allows you an hour of fresh air and exercise and best of all, the satisfaction 

that you are doing something for God's littlest ones. 

We invite you to join us any Sunday from two to three at the Civic campus of the 

Ottawa hospital on Carling Ave. Listen carefully …. are you being called? 

Marg 613 293 0799 

Marg would be glad to hear from you if you want to take part in this weekly hour of prayer.

 

May the Lord bless you and keep you in His loving care. Thank you for being a prayer warrior for the Culture of Life.

 

Yours for Life,

 

Wanda

Wanda Hartlin

Co-Ordinator

40 Days for Life, Ottawa

wanda40daysforlife@clife.ca

 

PS – One last thing, if you wish to contact me between campaigns, please use the above email address. I will not be checking, 40daysottawa@gmail.com  until the next 40 Days for Life campaign.

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Preview YouTube video Abortion in Canada and Supporting Pregnant Women with Laura Klassen

Abortion in Canada and Supporting Pregnant Women with Laura Klassen

The Notre Dame D'Afrique (Our Lady of Africa) vandalized in Vanier

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-our-lady-of-africa-statue-vandalized-1.6651947

The face and hands on a statue of the Black Virgin Mary in Vanier have been painted white in what the city says is an unauthorized act of vandalism. 

What the heck do they mean by "unauthored act of vandalism" Are some acts of vandalism authorized

It was first erected in 1955 by the Society of Missionaries of Africa, which used to own the land the park now sits on, according to Vanier Museopark. The priests were known as the White Fathers and chose the Virgin Mary as their patron saint in 1938. 

I took these photos about ten years ago

Our Lady of Africa Pray, for us!

Near the Cross with Mary - Bishop Scott McCaig

Bishop Scott's inspiration comes from Saint Teresa of Calcutta who found herself next to the Cross and by Our Lady's side, in an apparition in 1947. As a result of this event, she often exhorted "With great love and trust, stand with Our Lady near the Cross. What a gift of God!" Saint Teresa's promise that 

"if we stand with Our Lady, she will give us her spirit of loving trust, total surrender, and cheerfulness."

From a letter written on the day of her death –

1. “Loving trust and total surrender made Our Lady say ‘yes’ to the message of the angel. And cheerfulness made her run in haste to serve her cousin Elizabeth. That is so much our life: saying ‘yes’ to Jesus and running in haste to serve him in the poorest of the poor. Let us keep very close to Our Lady and she will make that same spirit grow in each of us.”

2. “Pray especially to Our Blessed Mother Mary, placing all your intentions into her hands. For she loves you as she loves her Son. She will guide you in all your relationships so that peace may fill your life.”

3. “Let us ask Our Lady, in a very special way: Mary, mother of Jesus, be a mother to each of us, that we, like you, may be pure in heart, that we, like you, love Jesus; that we, like you, serve the poorest for we are all poor. First, let us love our neighbors and so fulfill God’s desire that we become carriers of his love and compassion.”

4. “Mary is our mother, the cause of our joy. Being a mother, I have never had difficulty in talking with Mary and feeling close to her.”

 A few other Words from Mother Teresa on Mary

5... She never feared to proclaim Jesus her son. At Calvary we see her standing upright – the mother of God, standing next to the cross. What a deep faith she must have had because of her love for her son! To see him dishonored, unloved, an object of hatred. Yet, she stayed upright.”

6 “How much we need Mary to teach us what it means to satiate God’s Thirsting Love for us, which Jesus came to reveal to us. She did it so beautifully. Yes, Mary allowed God to take possession of her life by her purity, her humility, and her faithful love…Let us seek to grow, under the guidance of our Heavenly Mother…”

7 “If we stand with Our Lady, she will give us her spirit of loving trust, total surrender, and

 cheerfulness.

My brother Jimmy painted this beautiful image of Mother Teresa years ago

when he was living in Toronto. He met Mother Teresa as she was getting out of a taxi I believe and their eyes locked. I can't remember the exact circumstances... She might have dropped something and he picked it up: not sure but I believe their encounter was the inspiration for the painting which he gave to me. I was so excited!!!

Prayer Walter - Father Walter Ciszek S.J.from "He Leadeth Me"

“And I learned soon enough that prayer does not take away bodily pain or mental anguish. Nevertheless, it does provide a certain moral strength to bear the burden patiently. Certainly, it was prayer that helped me through every crisis.

Gradually, too, I learned to purify my prayer and remove from it the elements of self-seeking. I learned to pray for my interrogators, not so they would see things my way or come to the truth so that my ordeal would end, but because they, too, were children of God and human beings in need of his blessing and his daily grace. I learned to stop asking for more bread for myself, and instead to offer up my sufferings, the pains of hunger that I felt, for the many others in the world and in Russia at that time who were enduring similar agony and even greater suffering. I tried very hard not to worry about what tomorrow would bring, what I should eat, or what I should wear, but rather to seek the kingdom of God and his justice, his will for me and for all mankind.

"Thy will be done." That was the key, but only slowly did I come to experience how perfect a prayer is the Our Father, the Lord's Prayer. "Lord, teach us how to pray", the disciples had said, and in his answer, the Lord had explained the whole theology of prayer in the most simple terms, exhaustive in its content, and yet intended for the use of all men without distinction. The human mind could not elaborate a better pattern in prayer than the one the Lord himself gave us.

He begins by placing us in the presence of God. God the almighty, who has created all things out of nothingness and keeps them in existence lest they return to nothingness, who rules all things and governs all things in the heavens and on earth according to the designs of his own providence. And yet this same all-powerful God is our Father, who cherishes us and looks after us as his sons, who provides for us in his own loving kindness, guides us in his wisdom, who watches over us daily to shelter us from harm, to provide us food, to receive us back with open arms when we, like the prodigal, have wasted our inheritance. Even as a father guards his children, he guards us from evil--because evil does exist in the world..."

From Walter J. Ciszek's book,  He Leadeth me