Feb
21
2020
By Anonymous (not verified)
Please join with the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and prayer warriors from all over the world in praying a worldwide 54-Day Rosary Novena for the respect for life from conception to natural death.
The prayer campaign begins Tuesday, Feb. 25, and concludes Saturday, April 18, on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, the day Jesus promises "a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of [His] mercy" (Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, 699).
For anyone needing instructions for praying the Rosary, click here.
The campaign comes at a time when some states in the U.S. have successfully put limitations on legal abortions and other states have extended abortion access.
For instance, in Massachusetts - the home of the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy - state legislators are considering a bill that would eliminate the requirement that a minor under the age of 18 have the consent of a parent, guardian, or the courts; allow abortions later in a pregnancy when deemed "necessary to protect the patient's life or physical or mental health, or in cases of lethal fetal anomalies, or where the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the uterus"; eliminate the requirement that provides medical care to a child who survives an abortion attempt; and remove a requirement that abortions after 24 weeks be performed in a hospital.
At the same time, physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in nine U.S. states.
"Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines," says Marian Helper Dina Pacillo of Derby, New York, who's encouraging other Marian Helpers to join in this special novena. "It's time for us to pick up our weapons; our Rosaries, and enter into this spiritual battle. The future of our communities, our countries, and the world, will be determined by how much we are all willing to engage in this war between good and evil."
She said, "God has carefully, tenderly created every person in His own image and likeness, to be in a loving relationship with Himself. From each tiny child knit within a mother's womb, to every person approaching death, all are loved perfectly and completely by God. Abortion and euthanasia tragically reject the truth that every life is a good and perfect gift, deserving protection.
"This culture of death didn't get here overnight," she says. "The attacks on the unborn and the destruction of the family come directly from the evil one whom Jesus Christ defeated on the Cross. These are difficult but hopeful times in which we live."
And, indeed, the Rosary is a powerful weapon in this battle. As St. Louis de Montfort wrote, "Almighty God has given it [the Rosary] to you because he wants you to use it as a means to convert the most hardened sinners and the most obstinate heretics. He has attached to it grace in this life and glory in the next."
Together, let's turn to Our Blessed Mother by means of the Holy Rosary. Let us pray for a culture of life.
Jesus, I trust in You!
The prayer campaign begins Tuesday, Feb. 25, and concludes Saturday, April 18, on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, the day Jesus promises "a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of [His] mercy" (Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, 699).
For anyone needing instructions for praying the Rosary, click here.
The campaign comes at a time when some states in the U.S. have successfully put limitations on legal abortions and other states have extended abortion access.
For instance, in Massachusetts - the home of the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy - state legislators are considering a bill that would eliminate the requirement that a minor under the age of 18 have the consent of a parent, guardian, or the courts; allow abortions later in a pregnancy when deemed "necessary to protect the patient's life or physical or mental health, or in cases of lethal fetal anomalies, or where the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the uterus"; eliminate the requirement that provides medical care to a child who survives an abortion attempt; and remove a requirement that abortions after 24 weeks be performed in a hospital.
At the same time, physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in nine U.S. states.
"Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines," says Marian Helper Dina Pacillo of Derby, New York, who's encouraging other Marian Helpers to join in this special novena. "It's time for us to pick up our weapons; our Rosaries, and enter into this spiritual battle. The future of our communities, our countries, and the world, will be determined by how much we are all willing to engage in this war between good and evil."
She said, "God has carefully, tenderly created every person in His own image and likeness, to be in a loving relationship with Himself. From each tiny child knit within a mother's womb, to every person approaching death, all are loved perfectly and completely by God. Abortion and euthanasia tragically reject the truth that every life is a good and perfect gift, deserving protection.
"This culture of death didn't get here overnight," she says. "The attacks on the unborn and the destruction of the family come directly from the evil one whom Jesus Christ defeated on the Cross. These are difficult but hopeful times in which we live."
And, indeed, the Rosary is a powerful weapon in this battle. As St. Louis de Montfort wrote, "Almighty God has given it [the Rosary] to you because he wants you to use it as a means to convert the most hardened sinners and the most obstinate heretics. He has attached to it grace in this life and glory in the next."
Together, let's turn to Our Blessed Mother by means of the Holy Rosary. Let us pray for a culture of life.
Jesus, I trust in You!
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