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Face of Pro-Life #94 – Corinn Dahm with guest Leticia Velazquez ( 60min) >>> Play

A staggering ninety percent of children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted! Leticia Velasquez, mother of a Down Syndrome child and an active pro-lifer, and hostess Corinn Dahm discuss the upbringing of down syndrome children. Leticia gives valuable advice to mothers, families with down syndrome children and pregnant women and the impact of the new health care bill on this issue is also discussed.

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Veronica Hears of the Condemnation

The three women covered themselves carefully, as the March air was still cold with a penetrating damp. Each brought along a basket, for this was the day to purchase necessary foods and wine for the solemn Passover feast. There was the customary anticipation in them, as they planned their celebration in the traditional way, recalling and reliving the truths they had been taught since they were children. At the same time they talked in awed tones of the new movement spreading throughout their community and the larger part of their world was a movement they believed in, but did not know was destined to change everything.

The women set off towards the teeming markets, across the cobbled stones in their sandals, headgear covering their faces. As they walked quickly to shield themselves from the chilling wind, the three began to experience feelings of unusual uneasiness as they proceeded through the crowded streets. The air, always pervaded by unpleasant odors, seemed today to be particularly heavy, almost suffocating. As they endeavored to approach the market stalls, they found themselves impeded by a steadily enlarging body of shoving, raucous people. Now, with considerable consternation, one asked the other, “What do you suppose is happening here today?” The other shook her head and shuddered, “I fear something terrible is going on.” In their world it was not unusual for altercations to break out between the various religious and political sects, though unsettling. The three women slipped in one of the wider doorways to catch their breath and there encountered another shopper. The woman had overheard their wondering remarks and asked them quietly, “Do you not know what has happened? Pilate has condemned the one they call Jesus to death. He is on his way to Calvary for crucifixion.” (more…)

Homily #100313 ( 07min) Play – The two readings today from the Old and New Testament both refer to women accused of adultery by evil men.
Fr. Ignatius preaches on how the accusers against Susanna in the first reading became more and more sinful as they reject opportunities to avoid sin and to have recourse to the grace that comes from prayer.
Ave Maria! Saturday of the Third Week in Lent – Mass: EF, Verba Mea Auribus – Readings: 1st: dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 – Gsp: joh 8:1-11

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Roving Reporter #99 – Friar Roderic and Georgette Forney( 07min) >>> Play

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Georgette Forney is the President of Anglicans for Life, the only Anglican/Episcopal organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia, protecting embryos from research abuse, and promoting abstinence and adoption. She is also the co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, an effort to raise awareness about the physical, spiritual and emotional harm abortion does to women and to let those who are hurting from abortion know help is available. Since officially launching the Campaign in 2003, 2859 women and men have shared their testimonies at 466 Gatherings that have occurred in 44 states and 8 countries with more than 63,000 spectators having heard the truth about abortion’s negative after-affects. More than 6,200 people have registered online to be silent no more. – www.anglicansforlife.org

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Miscellanea #50 – Up Capital Hill ( 04min) >>> Play

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Organizer Nellie Gray told the press that the numbers of marchers this year far exceeded last year, which was estimated at well over 300,000.  That sentiment was echoed by many long-time March for Life participants. LifeSiteNews.com

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A Lesson from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta on Abortion

“America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts — a child — as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters” (more…)

Fr. Pablo: Vote Pro-Life #1 ( 02min) Play – Ave Maria!

We’re grateful to be able to air this new 18-part series by Redemptorist Missionary Fr. Pablo Straub, C.SS.R., in which he exhorts the faithful and all people of good will to cast their ballots on November 4th for candidates that will advance the pro-life cause.

In the first of these 2-minute shorts, Fr. Pablo pulls apart the lie that says “A woman has a right over her own body,” which is an infamous slogan of the pro-abortion crowd.

We also invite you to visit www.windowtotruth.com, the official website of Fr. Pablo and the Mission Helpers of the Holy Savior.

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Today many grandparents are raising their grandchildren. How prayers to the parents of Our Lady and the grandparents of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, are needed!

Saint Anne and Saint Joachim , Parents of Mary
Feast Day: July 26
Patronage of: Anne - of Canada, women in childbirth, Christian mothers, Joachim - of fathers

Patrons for Grandparents

Joachim and Anne were the parents of Mary and the grandparents of Jesus.

The name “Hannah” means grace. In Galilee, where she lived, Mary’s mother was probably called “Hannah” even though we know her as Saint Anne. So, if you are named “Hannah” or “Anne” you are named after the mother of Our Blessed Mother.

It was in the womb of Saint Anne that Mary was immaculately conceived. From the first instant of her life, she was in a state of grace and free from all stain of Original Sin. It was her parents, Anne and Joachim that raised her to be faithful to God’s word and remain free of sin. (more…)

Standing Fast #23 – Fr. Angelo Geiger on the need for Christianity in Chivalry ( 9min) >>> Play

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Fr. Angelo is back and vlogging with a vengeance. This episode is on religious chivalry vs secular chivalry. Referring to groups like the Society of Creative Anachronisms which are trying to reintroduce Chivalry with an ethical code not based on religious principles but on secular or even neo-pagan ones, Fr Angelo mentions that this is nothing new. Listen as he points out how western chivalry was uniquely Christian and thus superior to any of the many other forms of Chivalry, especially in regard to the treatment of women which was based on devotion to Mary.

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Marycast #10 ( 9min) Play – There are several women in the Old Testament that, in their persons, revealed something about Our Lady. Dr Mark Miravalle uses some of the prominent “strong women” of the Old Testament to manifest how they prefigure “the Woman” of the New Testament: The Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Standing Fast #19 – Fr. Angelo takes on Miss Rambo (6min) >>> Play

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In this episode of Standing Fast, Fr. Angelo takes on Ms. Rambo asking the question, “What has this woman, who looks like a starlet, but fights like an Amazon, got to do with the Dignity of Women?!!” Hear what he has to say …

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