Jewels Green is a stay-at-home mother of three boys. A former abortion-business worker, she left the industry and became a pro-life advocate in 2011. A former Lutheran, Green entered the Catholic Church on April 7, 2012. She recently spoke with Register senior writer Tim Drake from her home outside Philadelphia.
How did you first become involved in abortion work?
I worked at the Allentown Women’s Center, a freestanding abortion center that has been in continuous operation for more than 30 years. I was a poster child for cross-training. I did every job there except for doctor and nurse. I answered the phone and booked appointments; I took payments; I was trained in the lab, so that I could do simple blood work and pregnancy tests.
I served as a medical assistant, taking blood pressures before and after surgery. I was an autoclave technician, which involved sterilizing medical instruments. It’s there where I saw the jars with the aborted babies’ remains in them. I painted the staff bathroom one weekend.
I worked there between 1990 and 1995, at the ages of 19-24. I returned to work there part time in 2002, when I was pregnant with my eldest son.
I was hired within a year of my own abortion. I had my own first-trimester abortion at the age of 17, in January 1989. I tried to kill myself and ended up in an adolescent psych unit. Within weeks of being discharged, I attended an abortion-rights march in Washington, D.C.
I went to graduate school for psychology, so I describe my decision as [the Freudian defense mechanism known as] reaction formation. I knew what I did was wrong, but to be okay with it, I became a staunch supporter of abortion rights. It was an attempt to mask my own feelings.
I volunteered as an escort on Saturdays, and when there was an entry-level position, I applied and was eventually hired. Along with my application, I wrote a short essay about my own experience. I explained that although this had happened to me, I was a supporter.
How did your conversion come about? Was it sudden or gradual?
I have a feeling that many things that seem overnight were kindling for a very long time. I considered myself pro-choice well into 2010, even though I hadn’t worked at the center for a long time. I wasn’t donating to the cause. I was a busy stay-at-home mom.
It never really occurred to me to question that long-held belief until the fall of 2010. At that time, I came to know the friend of a friend who was a gestational surrogate for someone.
As I thought about how unnatural that seemed — the whole idea of manipulating life — I started thinking and questioning and learning more about in vitro fertilization and scientific man-manipulated life. About that time, my friend shared something that she had been told in her surrogate support group. One of the members of the group was carrying a child for a couple. A part of her surrogate contract was genetic testing, and the tests came back positive for Down syndrome. She was offered her contract payment in full if she would abort. And she did. She was probably offered tens of thousands of dollars, like a mob hit.
That was it. That was when the light switched on, and I said, ‘This is just wrong.’
Within weeks of that, Abby Johnson’s book Unplanned came out, and I stumbled across a video of her on YouTube. I couldn’t believe that there was someone else out there like me — another clinic worker who left. Within a couple of weeks, I was praying outside a hospital that was performing abortions.
Did you have a faith life during your years at the abortion business?
I was raised [in the] Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. I attended Sunday school, sang in the choir and attended religious services faithfully until my teen years. My husband is a lifelong Catholic.
What led to your religious conversion?
After my pro-life conversion, I wanted to tell the world about the senseless slaughter. When I shared my story with our pastor, he kept badgering me about who would take care of the crack babies and who would adopt all these children. Eventually, my pastor reminded me that the ELCA has a pro-choice policy. I realized that I had to do some soul searching. One of my first resources was Scott and Kimberly Hahn’s Rome Sweet Home. The biggest draw was the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. Outside of receiving him at Mass, my favorite thing is Eucharistic adoration. That’s what finally drew me — the idea that God could be with me every day. Getting to Mass feeds your soul.
Our children will now be raised in the Catholic faith.
Did you reach out to former Planned Parenthood worker Abby Johnson during your process?
Yes, I wrote to her. As soon as I self-identified as pro-life, some disturbing nightmares came back. She was one of the few people I could relate to. Then I met Catherine Adair online. She’s another former Planned Parenthood worker from Boston. We have much in common and can pray together. It’s very comforting. It’s important to have a kindred spirit.
What do you mean by having much in common?
I guess what I mean is that we — former abortion clinic workers who are now vocal and public pro-life advocates — were all post-abortive before we began working in the abortion industry. We all became pro-life, and we all have sought to play a role in speaking out. We all share a similar chronology, which I find fascinating. We are our own support system.
That makes me wonder how many of the women who work in the abortion business are post-abortive.
My guesstimate is that the percentage of post-abortive women working in the abortion business is very high. I know that I wasn’t the only post-abortive woman who worked at our center. I think there are a lot of people who attempt to go about healing the wrong way, by working at a clinic.
I hope that as more and more women come out of the industry, there are more ministries that can help them. There has to be some type of retreat that can minister to and help us heal.
The strangest things happen to you. They can be so scary. Once, my husband went grocery shopping. When he returned, he had gotten everything on the list, including new rubber gloves. When I put them on to wash the dishes, I started to shake and cry, but didn’t know why at first. The gloves were yellow, and when I put them on, all I could see was the blood. They were the same color as the gloves I used to wash bloody instruments at the clinic. I had to throw them away. Triggers like that will always be there. When things like that happen, you [former clinic workers] need support.
Abby Johnson has just unveiled her new ministry, And Then There Were None, which is reaching out and helping folks leaving the abortion industry by offering social and financial support. And there’s Rachel’s Vineyard, which offers hope and healing.
Tim Drake is the Register’s senior writer.
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GOD BLESS HER AND HER FAMILY!!!
Wonderful article. Thank you so much.
Too bad this woman won’t be speaking at the Democrat National Convention this week.
Praise God for Jewels’ story, and her openness to God’s call! She mentioned post-abortive retreats. Please check out Lumina/Hope & Healing after Abortion, which does retreats for mothers, fathers, and siblings of aborted babies. Or contact the Sisters of Life.
Thank you for telling your story and for being willing to tell the truth about the abortion industry. May God bless you and your family!
Thank you for sharing your story! God bless you!
These are important stories in life to share. Thank you. I will pray that you and others will find peace from your past and find purpose in your new life with Christ.
Thank you for this story! There IS hope for my pro-abortion friends!!!
Thank you. You are in my families thoughts and prayers. You are in a unique position to help stop abortion, the scourge of our recent history. You can help us return to the country of life and freedom! And by the way: welcome to the Catholic Church.
Just one question to ask any woman getting an abortion. “Do you know that this may be the only baby you ever conceive?” Both of my cousins who had abortions ended up childless, alone and aging….wondering about all that ‘freedom’ they had and what it cost them.
See what you all think of this.
I believe the Catholic Church is more than a little complicit in culture of abortion that now exists in the U.S.
I say that because since Vatican II, the Church seems to have abandoned preaching and teaching on sexual morality.
And since the biggest driver of abortion is the promiscuous of the young—many, many of whom never heard the Church take forceful and repeated stands on calling sex outside marriage a mortal sin—the Church carries a share of the blame..
Heck, today’s priests seldom if ever even use the term ‘mortal sin.’ I wonder if many even know what it is and what it means.
The bottom line is that reluctance, the abject refusal of the Catholic Church to forcefully speak out on sexual immorality is the cause of more abortions than you can count.
We are the Church! And yes, we most certainly need better catechesis. It is the responsibility of all of us to speak about mortal sin, not just the priest.
Welcome to the Catholic Church! God was working and you had to be open to it, Jewels Green. Increasingly, you were. I prayed and peacefully protested at PPFA facilities and wondered what went on in the minds and hearts of workers inside. Your story gives increasing hope.
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Years ago I came across the phrase “None Dare Risk Murder” which can greatly help with those natural doubts that even some of today’s faithful Catholic authors can sinlessly philosophically have, about exactly when personhood (not just DNA) is established. For those suddenly facing unwanted pregnancies, such natural doubts tend to become refuges to mentally flee to, to rationalize an abortion. However, pondering the thought-provoking terms Dare & Risk early on, *before problematic pregnancies*, helps us to reassess during an actual temptation our *personal posture* before the Author of Life, thus to help us more courageously choose Respect for both Life and God.
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My hope with my open letter below on Psalm 127:1 is that it will help others in this historic year – over a great variety of moral areas—to lovingly face God as you did. That will help get America back on track, if we heed God’s stern warning in the Psalm:
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Dear Cardinal Timothy Dolan,
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As you know Your Eminence, your closing, non-partisan prayer at the DNC Convention this Thursday is not only for Democrats. It is for all Americans in various parties—just as your non-partisan prayer at the closing of the recent RNC Convention was for ALL Americans.
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Because this is the last truly major occasion for such closings before the Election, there is one succinctly special Psalm-verse we Christians from all denominations and parties can embrace and so it should be heard through you this Thursday, the same verse Archbishop Chaput chose to conclude his non-partisan July speech at the Napa Institute in CA: Psalm 127:1 –
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“Unless the Lord builds the house [from the family on upward], those who build it labor in vain.”
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Though human and divine builders are clearly indicated, it is Master Builder God who WARNS we will surely FAIL with our own designs and plans for society if we don’t follow His ample guidance. One crucial example would be for citizens to give too little thoughtful attention to what is being presented by all Parties for the November Election.
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Your Eminence, we hope to hear your voice reminding us of that short psalmic lesson from God which applies down all the Ages. Thank you and God be with you, Cardinal Dolan.
My priest mentions mortal sin weekly, and sexual morality monthly. It’s not the church, it’s the courage of its people to know and speak the truth, that includes both the lay and ordained.
My sincere thanks to Jewels for speaking truth.
Compelling story. I, too, was once adamantly pro-choice - and I believed, really believed, that I was on the side of the angels on this. Lord have mercy on me. I have seen the light. I am now un-apologetically pro-life and cannot believe I ever thought differently. Like Jewels, I was also profoundly affected by Abby Johnson’s book Unplanned but ultimately it was the Catholic Church’s teaching on the dignity of every human person that changed me. My conversion from pro-choice to pro-life was nothing short of a miracle and I credit EWTN’s Defending Life for their instrumental role in my conversion. If I can change, anyone can. We can do this. We can convert the hearts and minds of those otherwise good folks who mistakenly believe that abortion is a moral, ethical or compassionate option. They have been deeply misled. We can bring them back.
“Thou shalt not kill” What part don’t you understand?
It made me sick to my stomach, when I read in the internet a Catholic woman posting her abortion in the internet and being proud of it. Obviously she is blind to the truth! Since then I pray for her and all the Catholics that are Pro-killing=Pro-choice
Blessed are you, for you saw the light. and it gives me hope. I was a ‘plastic’ Chatholic, A Pharisee who thought that I did a great deal for God coming to the mass sometimes every day. It was all about me. I was not cheating on my wife because I loved her, but because it was the commandment. It was all about me. But then came in a request - ivf. I felt wrong with the idea of manipulating children and killing some of them on the way. When my wife added that she would abort a child in case of Down syndrome, my heart broke. I said no. The hell broke loose. Her family jumped on me that I was selfish. Having no more family of my own I stood there, in the midst of people of my life, and I was alone. I was being said to be bad. I run into the Cathehism of the Catholic Church for help. I have found it, but they rejected despite being Catholics themselves. I don’t blame them. It takes Holy Spirit to know Love, and we were all Spirit-less, like these five fullish virgins not desirng Christ, but rather being with others just because. My marriage collapsed (no, no divorce or legal separation but rather physical one, with lots of prayers on my side.) Your sentence “my husband is a lifelong Catholic” warmed up my heart and that is why I said that it gives me a hope. I don’t want anything for me except to see the face of God. I don’t want anything for my wife that she sees Him too. Does not matter how God plans do it, I trust in Him. Thank you for your patience to read this post.
Agree Lin. Kenny the Catholic Church has made many mistakes but thankfully many good holy priest, deacons lay people are going in the right direction. We can complain about the past or make right the future. What are you doing to help? Personally I work with the teens and take them to the March, teach them about the true presence od Jesus in the Eucharist, pray the. Rosary with them and call on the Holy Spirit to help with all of this. None of this by the way was share with me in my 12 years of Catholic Education. Thankfully through the Grace of God I am able to lead others to the truth and pray for those who do not yet know especially for all priests. The gifts of the church are endless.
This is for Nancy:
What’s that you ask, What am I doing to help the Church?
I’ll tell you.
For one thing, I’m pointing out the ‘mistakes’ of the past, not ignoring them like some smiling eggit. And that is so the ‘mistakes,’ as you so generously call them, are not repeated in the future.
You’re in denial if you think the institutional Catholic Church is now out of the woods. You and others can point to a traditional priest here and there but I travel around (and read) a lot and see that such priests are unfortunately still the exceptions.
In the meantime, countless Catholics, especially the young, are having their faith undermined by the established wishy-washy clergy and hierarchy——and Catholic schools.
You note the personal work you do with young people—teaching them of the True Presence, etc. Bless you for this. But then you add: “None of this by the way was share with me in my 12 years of Catholic Education.”
Exactly.
Now sit down and try to comprehend in the full what that means. And understand the wide extend of the rot had to be throughout the institutional church for such a situation to even exist.
And what, it now has disappeared and Catholic schools are now back on the beam?
Well, they’re not. With few exceptions, they’re as bad as ever in transmitting Catholic doctrine to the young.
Personally I believe that nothing is going to change until the current crop of clergy and its leadership has gone to the hereafter and a new generation takes over. And that’s no guarantee.
Such courage to tell this story. God bless her.
Thank you for sharing your story, I know how difficult it must be. I want you to know how positive an impact you are having by telling your story. God bless you!
Kenny, we hear you. Thank you for bringing to light mistakes of the Church. But bringing to light the mistakes is not enough. Now that we know what the problem is, how do we fix it?
Mike,
You ask, “how do we fix the problem with the institutional Catholic Church?”
If by ‘fixed’ do you mean a return to the Church as it was, say, in the 1950, 1) where there was consistence between the homilies, the clergy, the Catholic schools, and the lives of a great percent of the Catholics with legitimate Catholic teaching & doctrine, and 2) where the Catholic bishops could actually command respect from great swaths of the population, including the political class?
If so, I fear that ‘fix’ is not feasible. It’s like Humpty-Dumpy: Smash an egg and see if it can e put back together again.
The high water mark for the church in America probably has come and gone. Part of the reason is because of the overall culture, but part is also due to the reckless squandering of Church authority by the post Vatican II leadership.
We may have to be satisfied with a remnant-type Church, one that is considerably smaller than before but is truer to Christ than is the current institutional Catholic Church.
That’s what you should look for.
By the way, my understanding of Revelation is that this is what we can expect, not just here in the U.S., but worldwide, too.
satan is alive and well. he scours the world, preying on the weak. I pray God helps us all to keep on a right path to His home, and that he thrust satan and all his workers into hell.
I ask God to guide our hearts and minds in the way He wants us to go. Jewel is one of the many people who has shown there is hope for all people to “go and sin no more”.
I posted earlier, but it hasn’t appeared. I shall try again.
I was given this passage from the bible to read. Numbers 5: 11-30
Can someone please explain this to me.
I copied the text from the USCCB website. Here it is:
11The LORD said to Moses: 12Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If a man’s wife goes astray and becomes unfaithful to him 13by virtue of a man having intercourse with herf in secret from her husband and she is able to conceal the fact that she has defiled herself for lack of a witness who might have caught her in the act; 14or if a man is overcome by a feeling of jealousy that makes him suspect his wife, and she has defiled herself; or if a man is overcome by a feeling of jealousy that makes him suspect his wife and she has not defiled herself— 15then the man shall bring his wife to the priest as well as an offering on her behalf, a tenth of an ephah* of barley meal. However, he shall not pour oil on it nor put frankincense over it, since it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance which recalls wrongdoing.
16The priest shall first have the woman come forward and stand before the LORD. 17In an earthen vessel he shall take holy water,* as well as some dust from the floor of the tabernacle and put it in the water.g 18Making the woman stand before the LORD, the priest shall uncover her head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, that is, the grain offering of jealousy, while he himself shall hold the water of bitterness that brings a curse. 19Then the priest shall adjure the woman, saying to her, “If no other man has had intercourse with you, and you have not gone astray by defiling yourself while under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse. 20But if you have gone astray while under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you”— 21so shall the priest adjure the woman with this imprecation—“may the LORD make you a curse and malediction* among your people by causing your uterus to fall and your belly to swell! 22May this water, then, that brings a curse, enter your bowels to make your belly swell and your uterus fall!”h And the woman shall say, “Amen, amen!”* 23The priest shall put these curses in writing and shall then wash them off into the water of bitterness, 24and he will have the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings a curse, so that the water that brings a curse may enter into her to her bitter hurt. 25But first the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and having elevated the grain offering before the LORD, shall bring it to the altar, 26where he shall take a handful of the grain offering as a token offering and burn it on the altar.i Only then shall he have the woman drink the water. 27Once he has had her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter into her to her bitter hurt, and her belly will swell and her uterus will fall, so that she will become a curse among her people. 28If, however, the woman has not defiled herself, but is still pure, she will be immune and will still be fertile.29This, then, is the ritual for jealousy when a woman goes astray while under the authority of her husband and defiles herself, 30or when such a feeling of jealousy comes over a man that he becomes suspicious of his wife; he shall have her stand before the LORD, and the priest shall perform this entire ritual for her. 31The man shall be free from punishment,* but the woman shall bear her punishment.
Such an inspiritional, yet tragic recounting of Ms Green’s tormented former life, and the life she has lost. Her comments open up a much needed understanding of why pro-aborts are so unhappily pounding the table for abortion rights, and their consistant inability to comprehend our repulsion to the anti-life society. Many, it would seem, have been blinded by their compulsion to “make it all right.” God loves them, and He wants them back. This is precisely why the Pro-Life movement prays for all women in these circumstances. We must continue to pray as we continue to fight, for there are many Abbys and Jewels out there just waiting for the Truth, and simply unable to find their way without our help. May God help them, and us on this journey.
Tess
Dear Jewels Green, I will be praying for you, Abby, and all the converts. I think Saint Paul is praying for you all as well, because he knows what it is like to be rejected at first in the community because of what he had done, only to be trusted and loved later on. Let us all pray that you are faithful and courageous, and that all the Catholic community welcome you with all our hearts. Blessings and greetings from Mexico City!
Thank you Jewels. I also have three children who mean the world to me. We live in a World of Protestant Faiths which are considering Abortion to be an answer to Problems. I know of Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Methodist Faiths in particular. I’ve been a Member at different times in these faiths. To attend bible studies in these faiths with other women who encourage friends to have their teen girls ABORT the problem, why should the girl suffer, why should the family suffer, etc. So murder is their answer - or TERMINATION. As I struggled with this I came to realize like you, only the Catholic Church didn’t mince their beliefs. Murder is Murder and in 2009 I became Catholic. This isn’t a small problem, this is a holocaust, God Bless and keep up the Marchs.
Not only is the ELCA a pro-choice denomination it also pays for abortion for any reason for those covered on its health plan. The LCMS and WELS are, thankfully, strongly pro-life.
I really thank God upon your head. You see abortion is not just common, it is the act of shading innocent infant babies that have right to life. Lets join hands together and fight abortion operator because if we do not, the blood of those children gives strength to the activities of antichrist, and the blood of these assaulted babies will seek vengeance before the throne of God upon humanity. LETS BE VERY CAREFUL.
Kenny, the past is the past. What’s important is what God is doing now. And we can never give up hope. Jewels did not give up hope, and now she is experiencing the love, mercy, and healing of God. We may never return to the way the church was in the 50s, but that’s not what God wants. God wants us to be the Church of today, and He is doing something now.
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” -Pope John Paul II
I blogged today on a Complete Victory with conversion of the owners of an abortion clinic in Brooklyn, NY: http://mikelahey.com/blog
I encourage you, Kenny, and everyone reading this to sit with Jesus in his Eucharistic presence, and ask what He is calling you to do for the culture of life.
May God bless you,
Mike
Mike,
You correctly say what’s past is past. But it is also true that what is past plays a huge role in determining what the future holds.
That the post-Vatican II leadership in the U.S. dismantled and/or destroyed much of the sacredness that was Catholicism cannot be ignored, and the repercussions of this mayhem will ripple through the generations.
I’ll make two additional comments regarding when you wrote: “We may never return to the way the church was in the 50s, but that’s not what God wants. God wants us to be the Church of today, and He is doing something now.”
First, there’s no ‘maybe’ about it. The Church will not return to strength and respectability it had in the 50’s. Those assets have been squandered.
Second, according to the Bible, the Church will be reduced to a remnant as we near the final days. That may or may not not be God’s will, but it is surely His word.
And for those with eyes to see, our Church leadership is doing a dandy job of putting us on a track to remnant status. No, not necessarily by tomorrow, but down the road for sure.
What’s that you say? You still see buildings and institutions with Catholic-this and Catholic-that in their title, and you might take this as a sign of strength & vitality.
I don’t. For if you look closer friend, you’ll note that so many of these colleges, K-12 schools, hospitals, religious orders, etc. are hollowed out and are Catholic in name only. Poor leadership allowed that to happen. And it is cowardly Church leadership that permits this deplorable situation to persist.
If you want to help the Church, you first need to take off the rose colored glasses and deal with the reality as it is. The greatest enemy the Church faces is the enemy within. She is filled with wolves in sheep’s clothing. Accordingly, one of your roles is not to accept doctrinal weakness from the clergy or leadership.
So you believed in abortion when you needed one, but now that you will never need one again, you fight against those who do to deny them their right? How convenient. What a hypocrite
Kenny,
Granted, there are many situations like what you describe, and I know what you are talking about, but there are many GOOD and HOLY priests and religious that are doing amazing things! I’m in the Arch of NY and sure, there’s a lot of struggle, but I’m blown away by all of the good that is going on here. The Sisters of Life, the CFRs, Catholic Underground, the Young Adult Outreach, Generation Life, the Frassati Fellowship, Love and Responsibility, Camp Veritas… there are many amazing things happening. (Please google these things and be inspired.) Cardinal Dolan is a stout leader for our church, and I’m amazed at how he preaches the truth in the face of lies, and he always does so with joy and love. (Please pray for him, as his task is enormous.)
The one thing all of these organizations have in common is a strong devotion to the Eucharist. As St. John Bosco says, “Do you want the Lord to give you many graces? Visit Him often. Do you want Him to give you few graces? Visit Him rarely. Do you want the devil to attack you? Visit Jesus rarely in the Blessed Sacrament. Do you want him to flee from you? Visit Jesus often. Do you want to conquer the devil? Take refuge often at the feet of Jesus. Do you want to be conquered by the devil? Forget about visiting Jesus. My dear ones, the Visit to the Blessed Sacrament is an extremely necessary way to conquer the devil. Therefore, go often to visit Jesus and the devil will not come out victorious against you.”
Also:
http://www.stmarknc.org/adoration/benefits_of_holy_hour.pdf
The Eucharist really is our answer to every problem, we only have to go to Him! Apparently many of the problems we experience today come from a lack of Adoration.
Kenny, I don’t know your experience, but it’s obvious that you have been disappointed by many in Catholic leadership. I pray for your healing from that disappointment, the grace to forgive, and the fire to move on and love with the passion of the Saints. One person can make a HUGE difference. Especially through the grace of Our Lord. “Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire.” -St. Catherine of Siena
Dear Mike:
Thank you for inspiration. Its Fall so for me that means back to helping and hopefully Sponsoring in RCIA. Choir starting up again with practices again, reconnecting with the Catholic Family I feel so a part of in my large Church in Arlington. I know many Northern Churches are closing, we’ve just opened our new Church in June. I travel up and down the Eastern Seaboard and we are conservative in comparison, more latin than most in the music. Adoration is only one 24 hour period a week which began at 8:30 a.m. this morning and will end all too soon. I’m glad you shared New Yorks positive involvement, similarly Arlington - close to D.C. has some positive Holy Spirit led works happening. As a recent Convert I can’t begin to speak to early 50’s when I wasn’t even alive, but I do remember well the abortion controversy of my High School years. These last few difficult economic years have reminded me of the mid 70’s, so here we are 40 years later with Satan gaining too much ground spiritually. Do we blame Vatican II? How about seeing the Holy Spirit movement throughout the World and doing as we’re led to follow as we’re led. Again thank you, Julie
Julie,
It’s good to hear your encouragement as well. Even without the Eucharist exposed, we can still make a visit to the tabernacle. Christopher West says that it takes about 100 years for things to balance out after a major council in the church. So we are going through some growing pains right now, but the Holy Spirit will lead us where we need to go.
God Bless,
Mike
Hope is very important these days. We must not whitewash the truth, but we also must not forget that Christ is the head of the Church and will not forget his promise to be with us until the end of time. The evil that is being passed as “good” in our world today may fool many now, but the magnitude of it is slowly waking more and more people to reality, just as it did for Jewel. The Church has always been strengthened by the blood of martyrs because of the overwhelming injustice of killing the innocent. Evil is spreading, but so is hope. There are a lot of good people out there that don’t know what to do to make things right. God knows what to do! Pray, pray, pray!! And then do what God is calling you to—Listen to him! Don’t forget Fatima- Pray the rosary!
Lynda….......beautiful post! It is hard to remain hopeful. You are right, we must pray, pray, pray!
I think everyone needs to read this article and get educated:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html
(Editor’s note: And follow up by reading http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jennifer-fulwiler/why-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-choice-movement/)
Dear Selene:
I looked up at the article, and I realized it is completely void of heart and faith. I no wonder that woman lost her faith in pro-life movement. There was no understanding of what the pro-life movement is all about. It is about LIFE. LIFE of a human being that cannot defend him/herself and is being killed by a woman whom that human being would be calling a mother. That mother pays money to a person who wants to be called a doctor, but who is a killer. It is not about ‘health’ thing. It is about life! Statistics mean nothing. Legalizing murder does not make murder less than a murder. People can go and beat you up in a shady street. Do you want rather be beaten up in a doctor’s office?! Please, it is about a heart. It is about LOVING both - the mother, who very often is victim of her boyfriend, parents, rapist, doctor, ‘a false friend’, and a child who have no human friends except those who are willing to sacrifice they comfort, and go for a protest march in Washington along with half of a million of others. It is about those see these poor women and their children as someone to love. Allowing a mother to kill her child and telling it mercy is a completely moral loss! Please pray for them, don’t encourage them! Blessings.
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