If you live within a reasonable distance of LaCrosse, Wis. and are looking for a great opportunity for a Respect Life Sunday pilgrimage, consider the following. CatholicVote.org and Relevant Radio are teaming up to host a pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine in LaCrosse this Sunday, October 3.
If you haven’t yet visited the shrine, do so. It’s a beautiful shrine, designed by architect Duncan Stroik. You’ll find the Shrine and the artwork - both inside and out - beautiful and inspiring. The Shrine is one of the few places where I’ve seen contemporary religious art done well. The paintings of various saints inside the Shrine are remarkable.
CatholicVote and Relevant Radio, announced the pilgrimage 40 days before November’s election. With Our Lady of Guadalupe as the Patroness of the Americas and the Patroness of the Unborn, it’s a perfect opportunity to gather with like-minded people of faith for a day of prayer for our nation.
The plan for the event is simple. There are no speakers. The event is not political. It will begin with the opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation at 11 a.m., Mass at 1 p.m., a Rosary Walk at 3 p.m., and the traditional celebration of Transitus (Latin for passing into Eternal Life) of St. Francis at 4 p.m. Father Francis “Rocky” Hoffman, of Relevant Radio, will be on hand.
Those interested are invited to come for any of the day’s events, or all of them. They’re encouraging families to bring a bagged lunch and a blanket to enjoy the beautiful fall weather and the colors of LaCrosse, which should be somewhere near their peak.
Josh Mercer, with CatholicVote.org, said that they hope to promote an annual pilgrimage to the Shrine on Respect Life Sunday.
What a great way to pray for life!
For directions to the shrine, visit their website.
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“What a great way to pray for life!”
What a joke!
“The event is not political.”
It should never be “political!” It’s a spiritual issue!
They ought to be going and praying outside Catholic churches every Sunday because half the people inside belong to and vote for the pro-abortion party. Such people are false Christians that the clergy and bishops allow to remain so. They do because half of them (clergy and bishops) have registered their names in the pro-abortion party and vote for their candidates.
Abortion is a spiritual issue, plain and simple. The bishops have made it political by combining it with political issues that have nothing to do the murder of innocent human life that all Catholics profess to believe comes from “the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life.” Such Catholics are going to have a lot to answer for on judgment day like the “Rich man” who went on his daily life ignoring the suffering of poor Lazurus just outside his doorway.
Well said stilbelieve, but our prayers and action’s must be having an effect, tonight at mass our pastor, who’s been there for over 20 yrs. preached on the evils of abortion and our responsibility to do whatever we can to get our goverment to stop the legalization of abortion. It’s the 1st. time I’ve heard him talk about abortion, I was stunned and felt so good to hear him finally do this.
Thanks, Robert, for your comment and sharing your experience at church this past weekend.
What do you think would happen if you took this article and my comment for your pastor to read and discuss with you his thoughts concerning them? I know my comments were harsh and condemning. I would like to think it was “righteous anger.” Twenty-seven years after Bernardin’s introduction of the nice sounding “consistent ethic of life,” which the U.S. bishops adopted, is aggravating because it has not made things better for the unborn, only worse. And to pick up a 1989 biography last year on Cardinal Bernardin, written by his long time friend, Eugene Kennedy; and discovering Bernardin wanted to incorporate social justice issues into the Catholic prolife cause because he wanted to “keep the prolife movement from falling completely under the control of the right wing conservatives who were becoming its dominant sponsors” still makes me angry just thinking about it. He wasn’t interested in working with the “dominant sponsors” of the prolife movement ten years post Roe v Wade, he was interested in protecting the Democrat Party, the bulk of his flock in the Archdioceses of Chicago.
Catholics either believe it when they say they believe “in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,” or they don’t. The only way it would be known if they do believe what they say they do is if they had previously given their name identification and votes to the Democrat Party and then removed their name from the party and stopped voting for them because the party’s position is diabolically opposed to what they stand to profess to believe in church on Sunday. No other tenet in the Profession of Faith is provable except that one. The same can be said about the Lord’s Prayer in which we pray for God’s “will be done on earth, and deliver us from evil.” Does God create life so it could be aborted? Is not abortion, evil? Is God in contradiction with Himself? Or are there church-going Catholics in contradiction with what they pray for? That includes the clergy as well.
I’ll do that, I planned on talking to him on several occasions but never have. I was never aware of what Bernardin did until I read it in one of your comments on a Mark Shea article. Your comments about the profession of faith and the Lord’s prayer is so true, I never really thought about it and I saw it in one of your previous comments also. I have used it in talking points with others.
Robert R. Please let us know how it went. My wife and I will pray for your pastor to have an open mind and to hear your words from the spiritual perspective not the political. And we will pray for Holy Spirit to give you peace and assurance in what you are saying and doing. God will do the rest.
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