We all have so much love to give ...

I watched UTV Live this evening when this homeless woman told 

how she tried to revive her friend 'Robbie' 

who she discovered lifeless on High Street, 

Belfast this morning and I cried. 

This is not the society I want to live in where people die on the streets 

and I am sure it is not the society anyone reading this posting wants. 

May he rest in Peace and be in a better place. - John Dalat

We all have so much love to give ...

When I first saw this photo/story on Facebook, I thought of St. Therese of Lisieux - it struck me there is a resemblance here - the woman looks a bit like St. Therese. Therese wrote how she took her place at the table of sinners - how she would have lived in a refuge for fallen women to reveal to them the love and mercy of God. This woman, her story seems to exemplify that same charity and love.

St. Therese, pray for us, especially those

most in need of mercy.

Song for this post here.

Action Alert: Save the Baby Rabbits!

How can you let something this cute die?

Yesterday I posted a story about a nurse's testimony on how babies born alive after an abortion procedure are left on the counter, in a stainless steel pan, crying themselves to death.

I will never ever disparage another pro-life activist for being a single issue voter ever again.  These stories are so inhumane it is difficult to believe that any country or government could approve of such atrocities committed in the name of 'women's health'.  It is a crime against humanity.  It is evil.

Today I read another story about a woman who could feel her twins in her womb, fighting for their lives, during an abortion. She had too many children and didn't want more - so she had them killed.  It's insanity - such hardness of heart - I can't even express the anguish I feel reading these stories.

So often, on local news, - for the feel-good news segments, they show people bringing in hurt animals to be rehabilitated, often orphaned baby rabbits, and fawns which people believe to be an abandoned baby deer, and even fledgling backyard birds - to be nursed and saved and returned to their habitat when old enough.  Fawns and baby rabbits and fledglings are really meant to be left where they are, because somewhere mommy rabbit is hiding - and she'll show up at feeding time to care for her babies.  Same with deer and birds.  Unlike us, even animals take care of their own.  Yet we, who would rescue a cute little bunny, allow a baby to die, naked, wounded, cold, alone in stainless steel pan.

More recently, in the news covering survival stories of the floods and disasters, news anchors said that it was the cry of babies that led rescuers into the gravest dangers to rescue those who were trapped - one woman said she wouldn't let go of a baby in the rushing waters.  Though she found some place to cling to, it was dark, and chances she would be found were slim.  Then she prayed - and suddenly the baby cried - and only then were rescuers able to locate them.  A baby's cry saved the woman and the foundling baby.

In Aleppo, after recent bombings, rescuers found a baby boy in the rubble - crying - and he was saved.  Yet we kill our own when we don't want anymore kids - and if somehow they survive our attempts to kill them - we ignore their 'whining' and let them die.

If you have any heart at all, if you want peace, if you want love, rescue these children, these babies.

Make the killing stop.

This is why I love to hear babies cry at Mass - they remind me of those whose cries are ignored, or not heard, and left to die - and it rends my heart.  I thank God for the babies who cry, I thank God for the kids who are unsettled.  They remind me to pray for them, as well as for those babies and little kids who suffer daily, and to ardently pray the unborn and newborn and babies and little kids, will no longer suffer from our cold indifference and lack of love.

Be grateful for children, welcome them, and love them.

Remember this ... keep it in mind: "Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love." -  Fr. Zosima, Brothers Karamazov

Love your children.  Save them.  Save the children.

Infant saved from rubble in Aleppo.

"I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" - St. Teresa of Calcutta

Contraception, the original sin of modern times: Redux

More voices acknowledging the fact.
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Contraception is the underlying factor responsible for today’s scourge of unwed pregnancies, single-parent families, sexually transmitted diseases, deficient fatherhood, and high abortion rate, says a prominent family expert.

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“Since the introduction of contraception, everything else has fallen,” said Patrick Fagan, director of the Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute, reported CNS.
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Addressing the annual conference of the Frederick Douglass Foundation in Washington, D.C. last week, Fagan cited “alienation of men from women, the breakdown of marriage,” and “sex outside of marriage” as a few of the tragic results of contraception use. The foundation is a black, faith-based organization.

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“Universally, in all the history of Christianity, contraception was always seen as a grave sin against God,” he said, “a sin by which one lost divine life and the soul.”
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Planned Parenthood’s birth-control campaign, said Fagan, was the beginning of the societal scourge.
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“The first family targeted by Planned Parenthood in the late 30s, early 40s was the black family,” said Fagan.
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The abortion giant campaigned in low-income, black neighborhoods. That campaign, said Fagan, is partly responsible for the breakdown of the black family as well as a host of other consequences affecting society at large.
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Black families had remained intact until the 1930s when the American Birth Control League, later renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America, implemented their pro-abortion agenda on the minority group, he said..
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“By the late 1960’s, after ‘family planning’ clinics were widespread, there was a clear pattern of a preponderance of them being in black neighborhoods.” - Source
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An interesting comment on the Lifesite post, cited here:
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“In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there [Poland and Russia] had as many abortions as possible. Active trade in contraceptives ought to actually be encouraged in the Eastern territories, as we could not possibly have the slightest interest in increasing the non-German population. … We must use every means to instill in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman’s health. … It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions [“clinics”] and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics.”  - Adolf Hitler, Tischgesprache im Fuhrerhauptquartier, 1941-42.