Pentecost Novena

PENTECOST  NOVENA 

We invite all brothers and sisters in Christ to pray with us

from May 18^th –  26^th for the graces of the Holy Spirit:

·       for all priests and the whole clergy

·       for our beloved Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI.

·      and for the whole Holy Church

Let us pray together for the Fire of the Holy Spirit, to prevent division, persecution and the secret plans to topple the Holy See. (c.f.: Pain and persecution inflicted upon Me by those sects who work in secret to topple the Holy See is severe )

Let us take the Holy Rosary and save as many souls as possible from the destructive influence of the False Prophet and the Antichrist and from the fire of Hell!

The 9^th day of the Novena, May 26^th (Saturday before Pentecost Sunday), will again be a “worldwide Day of Prayer” with all Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

THE PRAYERS OF THE PENTECOST NOVENA:---> PENTECOST NOVENA

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Inspirational Video - The Right Choice

‘I did the right thing by not aborting’: video of young mom with disabled baby 

Tradition, Family and Property Volunteers Are Assaulted by Same-Sex Marriage Advocates

In this newly released video, volunteers with the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) describe how they were violently assaulted by pro-homosexual "marriage" advocates while promoting traditional marriage on college campuses and in the public square.

"That empty slogan about tolerance comes crashing down after you see how TFP volunteers were criminally assaulted by same-sex 'marriage' advocates," said TFP Student Action Director John Ritchie.

"The video speaks for itself. They don't tolerate God's marriage. In fact, our volunteers have been bullied, pepper sprayed, hit with glass bottles, sprayed with pesticide, punched, and spit on for peacefullystating that marriage iswhat it is – the unionbetween one man and one woman."

"When you watch same-sex 'marriage' activists destroy your signs, desecrate the Bible, blaspheme, and burn your literature, it becomes clear that the homosexual agenda is not really about tolerance," Ritchie said. "It's about the formation of a strange dictatorship – a dictatorship of pseudo-tolerance and make-believe equality – where freedom of speech is only allowed if it advances sinful lifestyles; where God, family values and public morality are off limits and targeted for destruction."


We're witnessing a moral revolution," continued Ritchie, "and sometimes I wonder: Will the aggressive attempt to redefine God's marriage lead to a new religious persecution?"

"Just look at the French Revolution of 1789. Back then, the unruly mob screamed 'equality' as they broke the rule of law and committed all sorts of atrocities," he said. "And today, you find people chanting 'equality' as they attack peaceful Americans who affirm the positive, self-evident truth that marriage is between one man and one woman. It's a big eye-opener."

"But despite these attacks, TFP Student Action volunteers are upbeat, and planning more campaigns in defense of marriage. We like to be on the front lines," said Ritchie. "And the more God's marriage is under attack, the more we will defend it."

Thought For The Day: Consider

Excerpt From Archiocese of Washington Blog:

The word "consider" derives from the Latin root words cum+sidera meaning literally “with the stars”.

But the root meaning referring to the stars also brings the word so much more alive. Thus, my definition would include this notion: to reflect on as if pondering the stars, to gaze, as if with wonder and awe, to think carefully, reflectively as when one looks up and out at the night sky.

Yes, to look up and out: billion of miles out, into the vast sweep of space, over 100 Billion Galaxies and untold numbers more of stars in each. Yes, to “consider” in its literal root is to root our thoughts in the perspective of the stars. This fills us with wonder and awe, reminds of the extravagance of God’s love, and humbles us by the sheer vastness of all things God has done. It is to see by the light of God’s glory and his expansive love. To consider is to think in a way that sees the present moment as caught up in something far more vast and ancient that the mere here and now; it is to experience the moment, the is place and time, as part of something more vast and ancient that we can imagine.

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China's Abuse: Forced Abortion and Forced Labor

May 19, 2011. (Romereports.com) He was tortured and forced into labor for 19 years. Now, Harry Wu, spends his time, trying to fight the system that enslaved him for nearly two decades. 

Harry Wu
Founder Laogai Foundation 
“Living like an animal. If I don't work, they would remove my food.”

They're called Laogai prisons or forced labor camps. Speaking out against the Chinese  government is enough to be imprisoned for life. When he was just 19, Wu was labeled a counter revolutionary. During a recent visit to Rome, with the Laogai Foundation, he spoke about the days he spent in solitary confinement. 
 
Harry Wu
Founder Laogai Foundation
“Six feet long, three feet wide and only three feet high made of cement. So I was inside, no blanket, no food, no water. You have to give a confession. After three days, if you don't do it, they can't let you go.”

Wu survived and later moved to Washington. But he says, it's a problem that still goes on today, with roughly one thousand Laogai prisons scattered throughout China. 

Harry Wu
Founder Laogai Foudnation
“There are three to five million people as a labor force to make a product, that benefits the government.”

He says products, like auto parts, hand tools and even some Christmas lights are made by prisoners. Despite international laws, that prohibit the sale of goods made through forced labor, Wu says plenty of them are sold in the U.S. Another concern, is freedom of religion, since Catholics are often targeted. 

Harry Wu
Founder Laogai Foundation 
“All Churches, all temples are government property. All priests, pastors are sent to labor camps.”
For years, Reggie Littlejohn has denounced the government, saying the abuse goes far beyond prison walls. China's one child law, has led to hundreds of thousands of forced abortions. 

Reggie Littlejohn
President Women's Rights Without Frontiers 
“China's one child policy is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide.” 
She says if women don't register their pregnancy with the Chinese government, they could be subject to a violent abortion, regardless of their pregnancy term. 

Reggie Littlejohn
President Women's Rights Without Frontiers 
“If you want to have a second child, you can simply pay a fine. What they don't tell the tourist is that that fine can be up to ten times your annual salary.”
Every day, roughly 500 women commit suicide in China.  Littlejohn believes it's directly connected to the country's strict family planning laws. 

Having significantly more men than women is provoking other problems. 

Reggie Littlejohn
President Women's Rights Without Frontiers 
“Because of the gender imbalance in China, and the presence of 37 million more men than women. Women and girls are trafficked into China from surrounding countries.”
The fight against these abuses has been going on for years. Until they see changes, these activists say, the fight will continue. 

17,500 capsules of powered human baby flesh made in China, sold to cure disease and boost stamina

Excerpt From BBC World News:

The Korea Customs Service said it had found almost 17,500 of the capsules being smuggled into the country from China since August 2011.South Korea says it will increase customs inspections targeting capsules containing powdered human flesh.

The powdered flesh, which officials said came from dead babies and foetuses, is reportedly thought by some to cure disease and boost stamina.

But officials said the capsules were full of bacteria and a health risk.

"It was confirmed those capsules contain materials harmful to the human body, such as super bacteria.



Excerpt From Daily Mail:

Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today.

The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal 'cure-all'.

The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born.

The tiny corpses are then bought, stored in household refrigerators in homes of those involved in the trade before they are removed and taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves.

Once the skin is tinder dry, it is pummelled into powder and then processed into capsules along with herbs to disguise the true ingredients from health investigators and customs officers.

Hospitals and abortion clinics in China reportedly pass the remains onto drugs companies when a baby is stillborn or aborted, the South Korean SBS documentary team reported last year. 

The San Francisco Times reported that tests carried out on the pills confirmed they were made up of 99.7 per cent human remains. The tests were successfully able to establish the genders of the babies used.

However, in reality the human flesh capsules contain super-bacteria and other harmful ingredients.

There have been disturbing reports that some babies were those who had perished in China's notorious 'dying rooms' where youngsters are deliberately left to die because they were born into families that already had the limit of one child in country areas.

In order to keep its population down, China performs 13 million abortions a year - mainly because mothers sacrifice their newborns to avoid punishment such as severe fines or even a beating by the authorities.

The Chinese authorities have confirmed that 38 per cent of women of child-bearing age have been sterilised - but the babies that are aborted do not go to waste because of the sickening trade in using their corpses for purported medicinal purposes.

Photo of baby aborted in China at 9 months in forced abortion circulates on Internet, sparks outrage

Excerpt from LifeSiteNews:

LINYI CITY, Shandong Province, China, April 3, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A chilling photograph circulating in China shows the body of a 9-months-gestation baby submerged in a bucket of water, apparently a victim of the country’s one-child policy.

Digital Journal reports that the photograph, in which the head and arm of a child can be seen underwater in a large red bucket on the floor, was posted to the Chinese web services company Baidu before it was circulated on Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter, last week.

The abortion appears to have taken place on March 26 after Chinese family planning police in the town of Moshan hunted down the family because the couple already had one child.

According to English reports regarding the original post, the pregnant mother was forcibly held down as she was given an injection to induce labor, after which the baby “even gave a cry when it came out,” but was left in a bucket to drown.

In response to the photo, Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, which opposes China’s one-child policy, confirmed that late-term abortions and infanticide are common means of enforcing China’s one-child population rule.


“These violent procedures can happen up to the ninth month of pregnancy,” Littlejohn told LifeSiteNews.com. “Sometimes the women themselves die along with their full term babies. Forced abortion is China’s war against women.  It is official government rape.”


“Late term babies are injected with poison in their skulls or drowned in buckets,” she continued. 


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The Prince of Liechtenstein is upholding natural justice in his threat to veto a law legalising abortion

From Catholic Herald:

By FRANCIS PHILLIPS

We live in a constitutional monarchy where the actual powers of the monarch are very limited: to listen, to advise, and to warn, as Bagehot says. This is not the case in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein (population: 36,000 with a land area of 62 square miles) where the constitution gives the hereditary prince the right of veto. Tim Tindal-Robertson of the World Apostolate of Fatima in the UK has emailed me to say that this right of veto has resulted in a difficulty: Hereditary Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein, who assumed his constitutional powers in 2004, has stated that he is prepared to abdicate his position if the principality carries out a referendum this Thursday, May 10, to approve a new abortion law.

Political activists want to revoke the Prince’s right of veto and have formed a citizens’ committee for this purpose. The Prince, a devout Catholic, told the parliament on March 1 that if the population wants to change the constitution, effectively removing the princely family’s power, a power it has exercised for over 200 years and which has given the principality its identity, he would not be able to undertake his political responsibilities and would “completely withdraw from political life”.

This seeming impasse began in 2011 when Prince Alois threatened to veto a referendum legalising abortion if it were passed. That attempt at a referendum failed because of his threat and the current campaign has developed as a result. Under the Liechtenstein constitution, it has to gather 1,500 signatures by May 10 in order to call the referendum. Currently the Prince still retains his power of veto; it is thought this might not last for much longer.

Many commentators will think, “Quite right too.” How can a modern democracy develop when one person, by the caprice of birth, still retains seemingly feudal powers? But the Prince is not exercising this power arbitrarily. Within recent memory, unborn children were protected by law as a matter of course in every European country, a law that stated they had “the right to life”. Prince Alois, as a practising Catholic – and unlike some American high-profile, supposedly Catholic politicians who I have blogged about recently – does not believe he can separate his faith from his public duties over a matter of such fundamental importance. I think he is right. He is exercising his right of veto, not because of a personal whim but to uphold natural justice against the threat of an unjust law. As the custodian of justice towards unborn future citizens of Liechtenstein, he is acting more responsibly than the activists.

In 1990 a somewhat similar crisis occurred in Belgium. The government wanted to bring in a new law permitting abortion. Such a law, constitutionally, had to be signed in by the King of Belgium, Baudouin I. Not having the power of veto, he stated that as a Catholic, he could not, in good conscience, sign the proposed law. The Cabinet declared the King “unable to govern”; he abdicated, and the law was passed. Yet 44 hours after his abdication, the Belgian parliament reinstated him. It was a compromise solution to a potential constitutional crisis. No compromise is being talked about in Liechtenstein.