INTENTIONS OF THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER
General Intentions : read them in the web page; www.rioporlavida.net
“Mother Theresa said: …
“God tells us:
Even if a mother could forget her child, I will not forget you. I have carved you in the palm of my hand."
Abortion goes against the commandment of love.
Every country that accepts abortion is a country of people that has not learned to love,
but seeks violence to obtain what it wants.
PRAYER TO SAINT RAYMOND NONNATUS
Oh glorious intercessor, Saint Raymond, model of charity with the poor and the needed.
Here I am humbly kneeled at your feet to implore your help in my needs.
It was your great joy to aid the poor and the needed of the earth, come to my rescue,
I beg of you glorious Saint Raymond, in my affliction.
To you oh glorious protector I ask that you may bless the child I carry in my womb.
Protect me and the child of my womb now and during delivery which is soon approaching.
I promise to raise him up following the commandments of God.
Amen
+ Intentions of the Holy Father
General: The Word of God as Sign of Social Development: That in less developed parts of the world the proclamation of the Word of God may renew people’s hearts, encouraging them to work actively toward authentic social progress.
Missionary: The End of War: That by opening our hearts to love we may put an end to the numerous wars and conflicts which continue to bloody our world.
+ For the intentions of the of Maria del Rosario de San Nicolas' Shrine
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+ To all priests, religious, consecrated man and women and seminarians: our prayers and thanksgiving.
+ That in all parishes' Masses a prayer may be made for the unborn.
+ Specially on the 25 th of each month, on remembering the day of the Incarnation and the nine months in which Jesus lived in Mary's Tabernacle, until Christmas, that all Masses may be celebrated for the unborn children and the blessing of all pregnant women.
+ ABORTION: The Health Commission of the Legislature of Buenos Aires signed a dispatch with majority of lawmakers signatures to regulate the practice of abortions with no penalty in the Capital which gives the possibility of killing the unborn babies (DEATH PENALTY) to all the cases of rape, even when the rape is only a supposition, without reporting such case in the police department. It also allows that every woman that has been raped may ask for an abortion from the age of 14, without her parents or a legal guardian's consent. A girl of 14 may go all alone to the hospital, denounce a rape and ask for an abortion without the company of her parents. Some lawmakers will not support this project alleging that the Legislature cannot interpret a national law, like the Penal Code and because of the content of it.
Let us pray the all of them may see the truth.
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+ For all the miners in Chile and their families. That their Guardian Angels may keep them company while they wait.
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+ For all the Christians in India. In this new attack, the number 184 since the radical hindu party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), renew the concern of the Church in India, specially since one of this political leaders on the 15 of August, called to “eradicate christianism” from Indian society.
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+ I ask for prayers for the Ist LATIN AMERICAN ENCOUNTER FOR PRIESTS AND SEMINARIANS FOR LIFE. It is organized by Human Life International (HLI). As you know it will take place along with other encounter for youth and for families in Lima, Peru from the 22 nd to the 26 th of September. We need much prayer so that the Lord can touch many hearts specially those of priests and seminarians so that we may dare be “light in the darkness.” The site is: http://ww.porlaverdadylavida.blogspot.com/ I would like to invite in a special way priests and seminarians to this encounter. God bless you.
Fr. Juan Carlos Chavez
Director REDESSVIDA, HLI
+ Dear friends, as a part of the organization of the above mentioned encounter, there is a competition on Prolife posters. We encourage you to take a time to see them and help us select the winners voting for one of them. This are the links:
Ver Pancartas
Thank you and God bless you.
Martin Tantalean
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+ "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit”. Let us pray that all parents may discover the new life that is given at the Baptism of their children.
“Whatever you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me”. Let us pray that we all may help and support the unborn child, his mother mother and her family. Indiana C.
+ In thanksgiving and praying for my children and families. B.S.G.
+ For the intentions of EWTN and Radio Maria.
+ Pray that I may be more active to fight abortion specially the clandestine abortion, much present in my surroundings.
+ to know you will God Beloved Father, in my role as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, employee. Maria Alejandra
+ for all those who work in the culture of death, FOR THEIR CONVERSION and for their victims. Marielena Alfaro
+ I want to join in prayer for the intentions of all. For the miners in Chile. For peace in the world. That Christ may reign in the whole world. I want to ask forgiveness for my sins, for my omissions. For my family. For the sick. For all those who are lonely, for all those dealing with mental health issues. Above all I want to thank the Lord for many graces received. Rosa MM
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+ MARCH OF THE BOOTIES
Let us ask our lawmakers for everybody's equal opportunities TO LIVE for the mother's as well as for her conceived child, both of them with their proper rights.” Wednesday 25 of August from 6 to 7pm in the intersection of Callao and Rivadavia avenues. A STEP FOR LIFE. In rejection of the innocents' homicide. As we have been doing from 2006 until now, we will pray a Holy Rosary to our Lady of Mercy, in front of the doors of the Nation's Congress and will give a fraternal embrace to amend the laws that try to legitimate that which is unlawful. We invite you to be part of the ‘Voice of those who don's have a voice” To save the BABIES and their mothers. The site is: marchadelosescarpines@hotmail.com . Olga Munoz, Miriam Torrontegui.
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+ For the health of: Juan Francisco, Maria Angeles, Diego, Larita, Julian, Cecilia, Pedro, Agustina, Mateo, Santiago, Dorita, Maria del Rosario, Jorge and Mercedes.
+ For the intention of Vani and Edu
+ For the unborn baby of Maria Clara and Pablo: Lourdes Maria
+ For the unborn baby of Oscar and Naty: Josefina
+ For the unborn baby of Carolina and Francisco
+ For the unborn twins of Ingrid and Jose Luis
+ For the unborn baby of Maria and Pedro
+ For the unborn baby of Rosita and Luis
+ For the unborn baby of Maria and Juan
+ For the unborn baby of Ignacio and Maria
+ For the unborn baby of Ines and Tomas
+ For all the institutions, monasteries, congregations, associations, families, etc., who share this International Net of Prayer and for their intentions and projects.
For all the babies that will be born in September and their families!
Buenos Aires, August 20 th
Fr. Victor Manuel Fernandez:
A fetus runs the risk of being despised, as does everything that is small and apparently useless. But truth is more than how it appears. Biology states that the fertilized egg is not the joining of the egg and the sperm. It is a new human being, original, different from his father and mother. Genetics indicate that the DNA of the recently fertilized egg contains all the characteristics that the human person will have as an adult. It is exactly what he will become when he grows up. He only needs to be able to have the opportunity to develop all his full potential. That is why from the moment of his conception he has the rights of a human being, principally the inviolable right to life.
If the reason trying to justify his elimination is his incomplete development, this gives the strong a reason to eliminate the weak or less developed people. In fact, in the colonization of the Americas some people felt that they had the authority to kill the Indians because to them, they didn't look quite human. Let us remember the Nazis, when they singled out other races that for them were of a lower quality, deserving destruction. In the same way, there are those who welcome the idea of eliminating disabled people for not being fully developed. But it is not hose who are fully developed who have the right to decide who is human and who doesn't have a right to live.
Here we get to the center of this problem which invites us not to take lightly the issue of abortion. Let us think thoroughly. If only the “developed” people have rights, with what solid argument will we be able to give an indisputable human rights to the weakest amongst us? The defense of human life requires principles that should never be subject of discussion, so to be sure that the atrocities of the last century may never take place again. The only way to establish these firm principles, is to maintain that human life is always sacred, from conception to natural death. Otherwise, the shrewd and powerful will find smart excuses to eliminate the one that bothers them because the person is considered less developed: the people with deformities, people from the slums, the elderly, the undocumented, the demented, the suspicious Arab, etc.
If we look at it from the point of view of women's rights, it is indispensable to state that the life of the pregnant woman is as valuable as the life of the defenseless unborn that is trying to see the light of day. Can this woman decide freely on the other fragile woman she is carrying in her womb, only because the unborn woman isn't fully developed? In every healthy political system, the one who has power uses it to defend those with lesser power. That is why, even as a “progressive coherence”, abortion is not viable as a solution. I also think it is a incoherence that someone that rejects abortion, at the same time washes his hands on helping the marginalized or supports terrible preventive wars. There is much hypocrisy, absolutely. But let us not make the innocent pay for it.
Here we have something that dignifies itself immensely: the passion for human dignity that one can see in a mother who is fighting against all odds for the life of her disabled son, when at the same time there are those who secretly think this life is useless. Or the passion felt by others who try to help preserve the life of the Indians in the jungle that apparently don't give anything back to society. Or that sublime obsession of some physicians who battle against death to preserve the life of a 90 year old lady, even if to retain her amongst us for some months more. They think that every human life is infinitely valuable and is to be taken care of, beyond their development, beyond their utility, beyond every annoying circumstance. It is the same for that miracle of pregnancy, for that new human being that is trying to grow in the womb of her mother. Who knows if that baby may be another Einstein or another Mother Theresa of Calcuta? It doesn't matter if he was conceived by a rape or by two lovers' encounter. It is him, he is unique, and has the right to be here. A society that decides to eliminate him to prevent other problems is putting itself in a risky situation.
A mother who has given birth to a disabled baby, in spite of her suffering, understands that the solution is not found in killing the child. Answers will always have to be found elsewhere, not in death. In some places it is tolerated for a pregnant woman to abort her baby if there is supposition that the child is disabled. Then what strong arguments may we need to defend the disabled who already lives from being eliminated? Birth per-se doesn't establish an essential difference, doesn't draw a clear line between a non-human life an a human life. What changes the fact of being out of the womb? A child doesn't begin to be a human being magically when given birth, nor when he passes the third month of gestation barrier. He who pretends to determine when in his development a person can be eliminated will be to consider himself God. This is not set up as a religious issue but a healthy humanism.
The situation of many poor women who have been raped is dramatic. They don't usually count with the help and support needed to confront their anguish. They need much help and company to help carry on with their unwanted pregnancy, even when they may finally give their child to adoption. We are not caring for the victim creating another victim. The solution to the problem is not found in confronting the woman with that fragile unborn life being gestated inside her, as if it where a simple pimple or tumor. Is it so that the little one has the fault of what is going on, as to make him responsible?
In a place that things are solve in this way, life's value becomes relative and introduces in society's underground, a superfluous under appreciation for human life. This finally translates in the incapacity to recognize the other as a person. This hides a dark dynamism that causes social degradation. Let us keep our heads held high.
“VIDEO” to help us pray to Jesus in Mary's Tabernacle for the unborn babies: GO TO:
http://www.rioporlavida.net/fVideo.htm
http://www.jesusenmaria.com.ar/fvideo.htm