Jul 28 Thu 7PM Knight of Columbus Business Meeting St. Paul's
Jul 30 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 31 after 10:15 AM Mass at St. Paul's cathedral - KofC Coffee shop - downstairs, featuring fried Egg&cheese&ham sandwiches
Gays and the Sin of Pride
Aug 5 Fri 8PM 1st Friday Mass followed by all night Eucharistic Adoration. Let me know if you cannot cover your hour.
Aug 6 8AM 1st Saturday Mass with Fr. Roy Problem Pregnancy Chapel
Aug 6 Sat 11AM Our Lady of Mercy Maronite Church June St. Worc, 1st Saturday Devotion returns after two months off, Confessions, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Noon Divine Liturgy Maronite Rite.
Aug 7-15 Novena for 40-Days for Life Fall Campaign - Order FREE Prayer cards
http://www.priestsforlife.org/novenas/assumption-novena.htm
On Archbishop Chaput being selected to run Philly:
Rocco Palma "He is brash, outspoken and fearless -- energetic, colorful, cultured...indeed, even hard-core....he stands set to bring the most revolutionary change American Catholicism’s most traditional major outpost has known in at least a century, to begin its rebuilding from the ashes of the darkest hour in its long, storied history..."
National Review: "[Pope] John Paul insisted that the Church doesn’t have a mission, as if “mission” were one among a dozen things the Catholic Church does. No, John Paul taught, the Church is a mission, such that everything and everyone in the Church ought to be measured by what the management types would call mission-effectiveness.
The old warhorses of the post–Vatican II debates, on either end of the Catholic spectrum, don’t get this; they’re still mud-wrestling within the old paradigm. But Archbishop Charles Chaput gets it, big time."
Aug 28 Sun 1-6PM St. Paul's Parish Picnic
America Needs Fatima, http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ great web site for rosary
Oct 15 Sat. Noon Public Square Rosary - 2,000 Rosary rallies in 2007 grew to 5,963 last year, 2011 goal is 7000 locations across N.America. See you on Pleasant St.
Sept28-Nov6 Fall 40 Days for Life. 714 babies saved during Spring campaign. If you can volunteer to help please contact Lee Crowley, Sandra Kucharski or Pauline Morris.
Oct 7-9 Voter's Values Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington DC, featuring Sean Hannity, William Bennett. Glenn Beck. http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
Ruth Pakaluk's opening statement during her Pro-Life debate, Jan 1995 at Boston College
Nov 4-5 Fr. Apostoli comes to RI
A blonde blue-eyed Aryan Scandinavian, Anders Behring Breivik, kills dozens of other blonde blue-eyed Aryan Scandinavians, yet the media claims it's because of Islamophobia.
Breivik "redefines" Christian, and the media believe him so they can label him a Christian Terrorist: “If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God. We do however believe in Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform. This makes us Christian.”
Breivik is the mirror product of an increasingly rising tension in the world today. Under the seemingly placid exterior of Western Europe, the old devils lurk.
What you won't hear from the media about this mass murder of kids at a "political" camp: "Utoya Island Meeting was an anti-Israel rally. Check out the "Boycott Israel" sign...The main activity at the Utoya Island Meeting were mock "Break the Israel blockade" games. One event was Palestinian aide boats would try to break the Israel blockage. Whoever gets through first wins."
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;
Jul 26, 2011
Jul 22, 2011
Ruth Pakaluk debating "Human Rights & Abortion" at Boston College
Ruth Pakaluk opening statement in the Abortion and Human Rights debate held at Boston College in January 1995.
The title of tonight’s debate is ‘Abortion and Human Rights’. I’m going to give my presentation is 3 sections. The first section will be simply an overview of how abortion is actually practiced in the United States, because that is in fact the subject of this debate. The second section will be a discussion of Human Rights - what that phrase means. The third section will be to consider abortion in the light of the concept of Human Rights.
First, what is the practice of abortion in the United States? Is it something that is uncommon, and women resort to only in extreme circumstances or has it become commonplace, everyday.
There are 1.6 Million abortions performed each year in the US, abortions have been taking place at about that level for about 22 years which means there are a total of about 35 Million abortions since the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand. It’s difficult to translate 35 Million abortions into human terms, one way to visualize that is to consider in Massachusetts the abortion rate is 1 out of every 3 pregnancies, so for every three woman who become pregnant, 1 will choose abortion. Since that has been the rate for about the past two decades it means that for every age group, from newborn right up to college sophomores, for each two individuals you see, there was a third individual conceived about the same time but who was aborted.
At what stage in pregnancy are abortions performed? Abortion advocates often focus on a single cell, the fertilized egg. How can we think of a single cell as a human person with rights? And I agree that’s an extremely difficult concept but it has nothing to do with the abortion debate since there is no such thing as the abortion of a single cell. The earliest stage at which an abortion of a pregnancy can be performed is about the fifth week after conception, and if you look at them, each colored brochure that was handed out you can see that even at that stage, the earliest at which abortions are performed, we’re already talking about something of a recognizable human anatomy: head, torso, arms, legs.
The vast majority of abortions are performed between the 7th and 14th weeks. In Massachusetts the median gestational age at which abortions are performed is the ninth week – that means that half of all abortions that are done in this state are after the ninth week. And if you look at this brochure, and what we’re going to see is that most reasonable people are going to agree that what this thing looks like at that stage is a miniature human infant.
Nevertheless when a woman goes into an abortion facility, she is not told that what is in her uterus has a recognizable human appearance. She is not told that her unborn child already has a heartbeat which in most cases would be detectable if you simply placed an electronic stethoscope on her abdomen she would be able to hear her own unborn child’s heartbeat.
Many Americans remain persuaded that abortion is only legal in the first trimester. You don’t have to look very far to find out that that is not true. [holds up Yellow Page] This is a yellow pages from the Boston Phone book, two pages of ads for abortion. The Planned Parenthood ad advertizes abortion up to 18 weeks.
[Lifts up pre-born baby model] This is a life size model of what a developing human looks like, 18 week after conception. This is a free standing abortion facility, not a hospital. You don’t have to give any medical reason, this is just what would be - a woman wants an abortion, a child of this gestational age would simply be destroyed by abortion.
Pre-Term, which is a much larger abortion facility, advertizes abortion up to 22 weeks, what would be a full month further into pregnancy than this [holds 18 week pre-born model up again]. I that that most reasonable people would agree that to call this a cluster of cells, pregnancy tissue or a product of conception – which is routinely the kind of language that is used to describe what is going to be removed from the woman’s uterus – I think most of us can agree that to call this a cluster of cells is not completely descriptive or completely accurate.
Finally one of the reasons, one of the problems that drive so many woman to choose abortion. Abortion advocates frequently speak of victims of rape and incest - but how many of the 1.6 Million abortions each year are actually done because a woman was a victim of rape or incest? Or the other hard case scenarios, her child is diagnosed to be handicapped, or she herself has a serious health problem that is aggravated by pregnancy.
I have here a photocopy of an article that was published in Family Planning Perspectives, which is the research journal of the Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm of Planned Parenthood. This is a very accurate survey administered to women nationwide, asking them ‘why are you having this abortion?’ I am going to read to you the top 6 ranked reasons the women themselves gave as being the most important reason I am having this abortion, and if you add up these six you account for about 93% of all the abortions done in the United States.
1.“I can’t afford a baby now”
2.“I’m not ready for the responsibility”
3.“I have problems with this relationship”
4.“I want to avoid single parenthood”
5.“I’m not mature enough to have a child”
6.“I already have as many children as I want”
Now, what I think is interesting about these reasons is that these are what we would call socio-economic reasons. These are problems, I will not say that these are not problems, they could be very burdensome serious situations, nevertheless all these problems lend themselves to some solution other than destroying the life of that developing human.
According to this survey if you add up all of the women who are having abortions because they are the victims of rape or incest, because the child was diagnosed as having some handicap, or because she was told by a doctor, a physician that she had a health problem that would be aggravated by remaining pregnant, those abortions account for less than 3% of the 1.6 million abortions performed each year.
Now, Human Rights. Most Americans claim to believe in Human Rights. But what does someone mean, when they use that phrase, ‘Human Rights.” There are many rights: legal rights, legal rights are arrived at when a Legislature debates something, then votes and majority wins, and then passes a law. Legal Rights are changeable, things like the age at which you can drive, the age at which you can drink alcohol, the age at which you can vote. There are Constitutional Rights, these are the rights which our government at its founding has specified that these had to be respected by our government. When we use the phrase “Human Rights’ we mean something more fundamental, than legislative or constitutional rights, we mean something that is prior to any government, any society, any person’s opinion. A Human Right is something that arises merely because you are human, not because you are human and strong, human and wealthy, human and powerful, pleasant, attractive, interesting. No, a human right is a freedom, a liberty you posses merely because you are human. Period.
Now this concept requires that every living human must possess human rights, and a corollary of that would be there cannot be any living individual human who does not possess human rights. If you could find any living human who does not have human rights, you would have proven that human rights in fact do not exist.
Now what does this have to do with abortion? Let me be perfectly clear, we have to ask two questions, they are really quite simple questions, they are not difficult, they are not ambiguous, they are not religious questions, they are not even philosophical questions, they are just factual questions. Consider the thing in the womb of a pregnant woman and ask:
1.Is it living?
Now whenever you take a course in biology you find a preface of the biology text book will usually have a general discussion of what biology is, the study of living things, and there will be some checklist of characteristics of living things, after all a biologist is not going to study minerals or chemicals, or asteroids, galaxies. A biologist will study living things, [inaudible] of whether or not the thing you are studying under a microscope is living or not, inanimate matter. What are the characteristics of all living things? And all things that have these characteristics are living things: they take in nourishment, they grow, and they will show differentiation of function coordinated under a unified whole. Like functions of respiration, ingesting nutrients, excreting wastes. Even a one celled animal has all these different functions going on, but they are coordinated under a unified whole.
Every rational, educated person must acknowledge that the thing in the womb of the pregnant woman is a living thing. It is some kind of living organism. It is not inanimate matter.
The second question is similarly simple and straightforward, and factual. You ask the question:
2.What species does this living thing belong to?
There is no such thing as a living organism that belongs to no species, and there is no such thing as a living organism that starts out as one species and becomes another. That does not exist. Again, every rational, educated person must acknowledge that that living animal in the womb of the pregnant woman belongs to the species of homo sapiens, just like all of us in this room.
It is an individual living member of the human race.
It is not a part of the woman’s body. It is in her body, but it is not a part of her body any more than if she were to swallow a live goldfish in some sort of crazy sorority initiation – that goldfish would be in her body, it would not be part of her body.
If Human Rights truly exist – we don’t just use those words to sound pretty, to dress up an argument – If Human Rights truly exist then that living human in the womb must possess them. And if you think that abortion is acceptable, you do not believe that human rights exist.
Now that’s a pretty analytic approach to this question, but I would like to present you with something that’s a little more pointed. Most abortion advocates are perfectly well aware that a fetus is living and a fetus is human. They don’t focus on this in their public rhetoric, but when pushed they are rational and they are educated people and they know the laws of biology and zoology. But I would like to read a particularly striking example, I could read you many, many examples, I collect these examples, but I don’t have time so I’ll read to you the most revealing. It comes from this book [holds up book], In Necessity and Sorrow – Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital, written by this woman [turns to back of book] Monica Dennis, she was Pro-Choice when she wrote the book, she’s still Pro-Choice. She spent three months in an abortion facility, observing and interviewing, and this is what we see in this collection of her observations and interviews.
I will read to you her eyewitness account of an abortion, which took place 15 weeks after conception, if you look at the brochure you can see on the back panel there’s a photograph of a child spontaneously miscarried at 14 weeks after conception so this is roughly the gestational age we are talking about. So you will understand what is going on I will tell you that the person doing the abortion is named Dr. Holtzman. The nurse who was assisting was Mr. Smith, and the woman having the abortion is under general anesthesia, so she is unconscious, that’s why they are talking as if she’s not there because she cannot hear them.
Dr. Holtzman pulls out something which he slaps on the table. “There it is” he says, “a leg.” I turn to Mr. Smith, “What did he say?”
“He pulled a leg off”, Mr. Smith says. “Right here.”
He points to the instrument table, where there is a perfectly formed, slightly bent leg, about 3 inches long. It consists of a ripped thigh, a knee, a lower leg, a foot and five toes.
“I have the rib cage now” Holtzman says as he slaps down another piece of the fetus. “There, I got the head out now.”
I look at the instrument table where next to the leg, and next to the mess he calls the rib cage but which I cannot recognize, there lies a head. It is the smallest human head I have ever seen. But it is unmistakably part of a human person.
That’s what it is to be Pro-Choice. It is to believe that under some circumstances, some human beings may choose to kill other human beings.
The title of tonight’s debate is ‘Abortion and Human Rights’. I’m going to give my presentation is 3 sections. The first section will be simply an overview of how abortion is actually practiced in the United States, because that is in fact the subject of this debate. The second section will be a discussion of Human Rights - what that phrase means. The third section will be to consider abortion in the light of the concept of Human Rights.
First, what is the practice of abortion in the United States? Is it something that is uncommon, and women resort to only in extreme circumstances or has it become commonplace, everyday.
There are 1.6 Million abortions performed each year in the US, abortions have been taking place at about that level for about 22 years which means there are a total of about 35 Million abortions since the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand. It’s difficult to translate 35 Million abortions into human terms, one way to visualize that is to consider in Massachusetts the abortion rate is 1 out of every 3 pregnancies, so for every three woman who become pregnant, 1 will choose abortion. Since that has been the rate for about the past two decades it means that for every age group, from newborn right up to college sophomores, for each two individuals you see, there was a third individual conceived about the same time but who was aborted.
At what stage in pregnancy are abortions performed? Abortion advocates often focus on a single cell, the fertilized egg. How can we think of a single cell as a human person with rights? And I agree that’s an extremely difficult concept but it has nothing to do with the abortion debate since there is no such thing as the abortion of a single cell. The earliest stage at which an abortion of a pregnancy can be performed is about the fifth week after conception, and if you look at them, each colored brochure that was handed out you can see that even at that stage, the earliest at which abortions are performed, we’re already talking about something of a recognizable human anatomy: head, torso, arms, legs.
The vast majority of abortions are performed between the 7th and 14th weeks. In Massachusetts the median gestational age at which abortions are performed is the ninth week – that means that half of all abortions that are done in this state are after the ninth week. And if you look at this brochure, and what we’re going to see is that most reasonable people are going to agree that what this thing looks like at that stage is a miniature human infant.
Nevertheless when a woman goes into an abortion facility, she is not told that what is in her uterus has a recognizable human appearance. She is not told that her unborn child already has a heartbeat which in most cases would be detectable if you simply placed an electronic stethoscope on her abdomen she would be able to hear her own unborn child’s heartbeat.
Many Americans remain persuaded that abortion is only legal in the first trimester. You don’t have to look very far to find out that that is not true. [holds up Yellow Page] This is a yellow pages from the Boston Phone book, two pages of ads for abortion. The Planned Parenthood ad advertizes abortion up to 18 weeks.
[Lifts up pre-born baby model] This is a life size model of what a developing human looks like, 18 week after conception. This is a free standing abortion facility, not a hospital. You don’t have to give any medical reason, this is just what would be - a woman wants an abortion, a child of this gestational age would simply be destroyed by abortion.
Pre-Term, which is a much larger abortion facility, advertizes abortion up to 22 weeks, what would be a full month further into pregnancy than this [holds 18 week pre-born model up again]. I that that most reasonable people would agree that to call this a cluster of cells, pregnancy tissue or a product of conception – which is routinely the kind of language that is used to describe what is going to be removed from the woman’s uterus – I think most of us can agree that to call this a cluster of cells is not completely descriptive or completely accurate.
Finally one of the reasons, one of the problems that drive so many woman to choose abortion. Abortion advocates frequently speak of victims of rape and incest - but how many of the 1.6 Million abortions each year are actually done because a woman was a victim of rape or incest? Or the other hard case scenarios, her child is diagnosed to be handicapped, or she herself has a serious health problem that is aggravated by pregnancy.
I have here a photocopy of an article that was published in Family Planning Perspectives, which is the research journal of the Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm of Planned Parenthood. This is a very accurate survey administered to women nationwide, asking them ‘why are you having this abortion?’ I am going to read to you the top 6 ranked reasons the women themselves gave as being the most important reason I am having this abortion, and if you add up these six you account for about 93% of all the abortions done in the United States.
1.“I can’t afford a baby now”
2.“I’m not ready for the responsibility”
3.“I have problems with this relationship”
4.“I want to avoid single parenthood”
5.“I’m not mature enough to have a child”
6.“I already have as many children as I want”
Now, what I think is interesting about these reasons is that these are what we would call socio-economic reasons. These are problems, I will not say that these are not problems, they could be very burdensome serious situations, nevertheless all these problems lend themselves to some solution other than destroying the life of that developing human.
According to this survey if you add up all of the women who are having abortions because they are the victims of rape or incest, because the child was diagnosed as having some handicap, or because she was told by a doctor, a physician that she had a health problem that would be aggravated by remaining pregnant, those abortions account for less than 3% of the 1.6 million abortions performed each year.
Now, Human Rights. Most Americans claim to believe in Human Rights. But what does someone mean, when they use that phrase, ‘Human Rights.” There are many rights: legal rights, legal rights are arrived at when a Legislature debates something, then votes and majority wins, and then passes a law. Legal Rights are changeable, things like the age at which you can drive, the age at which you can drink alcohol, the age at which you can vote. There are Constitutional Rights, these are the rights which our government at its founding has specified that these had to be respected by our government. When we use the phrase “Human Rights’ we mean something more fundamental, than legislative or constitutional rights, we mean something that is prior to any government, any society, any person’s opinion. A Human Right is something that arises merely because you are human, not because you are human and strong, human and wealthy, human and powerful, pleasant, attractive, interesting. No, a human right is a freedom, a liberty you posses merely because you are human. Period.
Now this concept requires that every living human must possess human rights, and a corollary of that would be there cannot be any living individual human who does not possess human rights. If you could find any living human who does not have human rights, you would have proven that human rights in fact do not exist.
Now what does this have to do with abortion? Let me be perfectly clear, we have to ask two questions, they are really quite simple questions, they are not difficult, they are not ambiguous, they are not religious questions, they are not even philosophical questions, they are just factual questions. Consider the thing in the womb of a pregnant woman and ask:
1.Is it living?
Now whenever you take a course in biology you find a preface of the biology text book will usually have a general discussion of what biology is, the study of living things, and there will be some checklist of characteristics of living things, after all a biologist is not going to study minerals or chemicals, or asteroids, galaxies. A biologist will study living things, [inaudible] of whether or not the thing you are studying under a microscope is living or not, inanimate matter. What are the characteristics of all living things? And all things that have these characteristics are living things: they take in nourishment, they grow, and they will show differentiation of function coordinated under a unified whole. Like functions of respiration, ingesting nutrients, excreting wastes. Even a one celled animal has all these different functions going on, but they are coordinated under a unified whole.
Every rational, educated person must acknowledge that the thing in the womb of the pregnant woman is a living thing. It is some kind of living organism. It is not inanimate matter.
The second question is similarly simple and straightforward, and factual. You ask the question:
2.What species does this living thing belong to?
There is no such thing as a living organism that belongs to no species, and there is no such thing as a living organism that starts out as one species and becomes another. That does not exist. Again, every rational, educated person must acknowledge that that living animal in the womb of the pregnant woman belongs to the species of homo sapiens, just like all of us in this room.
It is an individual living member of the human race.
It is not a part of the woman’s body. It is in her body, but it is not a part of her body any more than if she were to swallow a live goldfish in some sort of crazy sorority initiation – that goldfish would be in her body, it would not be part of her body.
If Human Rights truly exist – we don’t just use those words to sound pretty, to dress up an argument – If Human Rights truly exist then that living human in the womb must possess them. And if you think that abortion is acceptable, you do not believe that human rights exist.
Now that’s a pretty analytic approach to this question, but I would like to present you with something that’s a little more pointed. Most abortion advocates are perfectly well aware that a fetus is living and a fetus is human. They don’t focus on this in their public rhetoric, but when pushed they are rational and they are educated people and they know the laws of biology and zoology. But I would like to read a particularly striking example, I could read you many, many examples, I collect these examples, but I don’t have time so I’ll read to you the most revealing. It comes from this book [holds up book], In Necessity and Sorrow – Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital, written by this woman [turns to back of book] Monica Dennis, she was Pro-Choice when she wrote the book, she’s still Pro-Choice. She spent three months in an abortion facility, observing and interviewing, and this is what we see in this collection of her observations and interviews.
I will read to you her eyewitness account of an abortion, which took place 15 weeks after conception, if you look at the brochure you can see on the back panel there’s a photograph of a child spontaneously miscarried at 14 weeks after conception so this is roughly the gestational age we are talking about. So you will understand what is going on I will tell you that the person doing the abortion is named Dr. Holtzman. The nurse who was assisting was Mr. Smith, and the woman having the abortion is under general anesthesia, so she is unconscious, that’s why they are talking as if she’s not there because she cannot hear them.
Dr. Holtzman pulls out something which he slaps on the table. “There it is” he says, “a leg.” I turn to Mr. Smith, “What did he say?”
“He pulled a leg off”, Mr. Smith says. “Right here.”
He points to the instrument table, where there is a perfectly formed, slightly bent leg, about 3 inches long. It consists of a ripped thigh, a knee, a lower leg, a foot and five toes.
“I have the rib cage now” Holtzman says as he slaps down another piece of the fetus. “There, I got the head out now.”
I look at the instrument table where next to the leg, and next to the mess he calls the rib cage but which I cannot recognize, there lies a head. It is the smallest human head I have ever seen. But it is unmistakably part of a human person.
That’s what it is to be Pro-Choice. It is to believe that under some circumstances, some human beings may choose to kill other human beings.
Jul 21, 2011
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- Patrick Henry -
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 ...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
- Patrick Henry -
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 ...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!
Jul 19, 2011
Weekend in NY
Jul 20 Wed. 7PM Fiddler's Green Pub 19 Temple St. Worc - meet the Candidates for MA State Office, with Special Guest Charles “Buddy” Roemer, Candidate for President, former four terms Congressman and Governor of Louisiana.
Jul 22 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 23 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 23 9AM Conservatively Speaking Radio show, WCRN 830AM
Jul 23 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM
Jul 24 Sunday - National Organization of Marriage Rallies to request NY Legislature allow the voters to vote on the definition of Marriage; Albany, Buffalo, Manhattan.
Sounds Preposterous, but then again you never know with government people, but Ireland is planning to require priests to break their confessional seal. Pray for Ireland, both the priests and the idiots in government that actually think this is reasonable.
Jul 30 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Aug 5 Fri 8PM 1st Friday Mass followed by all night Eucharistic Adoration
Aug 6 8AM 1st Saturday Mass with Fr. Roy Problem Pregnancy Chapel
Aug 6 Sat 11AM Our Lady of Mercy Maronite Church June St. Worc, 1st Saturday Devotion returns after two months off, Confessions, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Noon Divine Liturgy Maronite Rite.
Aug 28 Sun 1-6PM St. Paul's Parish Picnic
Oct 7-9 Voter's Values Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington DC, featuring Sean Hannity, William Bennett. Glenn Beck. http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
America Needs Fatima, http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ great web site for rosary
Oct 15 Sat. Noon Public Square Rosary - 2,000 Rosary rallies in 2007 grew to 5,963 last year, 2011 goal is 7000 locations across N.America. See you on Pleasant St.
Sept28-Nov6 Fall 40 Days for Life. 714 babies saved during Spring campaign. If you can volunteer to help please contact Lee Crowley, Sandra Kucharski or Pauline Morris.
Americans United for Life is calling for an investigation of Taxpayer funding of abortion provider Planned Parenthood. 'bout time!
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;
Jul 22 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 23 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 23 9AM Conservatively Speaking Radio show, WCRN 830AM
Jul 23 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM
Jul 24 Sunday - National Organization of Marriage Rallies to request NY Legislature allow the voters to vote on the definition of Marriage; Albany, Buffalo, Manhattan.
Sounds Preposterous, but then again you never know with government people, but Ireland is planning to require priests to break their confessional seal. Pray for Ireland, both the priests and the idiots in government that actually think this is reasonable.
Jul 30 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Aug 5 Fri 8PM 1st Friday Mass followed by all night Eucharistic Adoration
Aug 6 8AM 1st Saturday Mass with Fr. Roy Problem Pregnancy Chapel
Aug 6 Sat 11AM Our Lady of Mercy Maronite Church June St. Worc, 1st Saturday Devotion returns after two months off, Confessions, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Noon Divine Liturgy Maronite Rite.
Aug 28 Sun 1-6PM St. Paul's Parish Picnic
Oct 7-9 Voter's Values Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington DC, featuring Sean Hannity, William Bennett. Glenn Beck. http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
America Needs Fatima, http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ great web site for rosary
Oct 15 Sat. Noon Public Square Rosary - 2,000 Rosary rallies in 2007 grew to 5,963 last year, 2011 goal is 7000 locations across N.America. See you on Pleasant St.
Sept28-Nov6 Fall 40 Days for Life. 714 babies saved during Spring campaign. If you can volunteer to help please contact Lee Crowley, Sandra Kucharski or Pauline Morris.
Americans United for Life is calling for an investigation of Taxpayer funding of abortion provider Planned Parenthood. 'bout time!
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;
Jul 10, 2011
True
True Love requires Truth, Love does not exist in a lie, Love does not exist in falsehood. Loving pastoral care of Christians by our shepherds demands truth. As Fr. Roger J. Landry writes, We in the Church are served best by "her priests [that] lovingly and courageously care for people with the fullness of the Gospel." We likewise are dis-served when "ministers and ministries — perhaps out of too much fear to give offense, a lack of faith in the teachings of the Church, or a faint-hearted notion of what true love demands — will dilute the Gospel of its saving power by stripping it of the uncomfortable and countercultural teachings that some listeners most need."
http://bryanhehirexposed.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/loving-in-the-truth-those-involved-in-the-gay-lifestyle/
Jul 15 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 16 Sat 8AM Mass with Fr. Adam Reid followed by Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 16 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM Radio - interview of Pro-life guest Jeff Quentin, blogger at Americans United for Life. http://datechguyblog.com/
July 16 is the 152nd anniversary of the last apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jul 16 8AM Prayer Vigil to End Abortion at Framingham Union Hospital - St. Stephen Church
Another Note of the attack on Holy Matrimony perpetrated in New York
Jul 22 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 23 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 23 9AM Conservatively Speaking Radio show, WCRN 830AM
Jul 23 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM
Jul 30 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Aug 6 Sat 11AM Our Lady of Mercy Maronite Church June St. Worc, 1st Saturday Devotion returns after two months off, Confessions, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Noon Divine Liturgy Maronite Rite.
Aug 28 Sun 1-6PM St. Paul's Parish Picnic
Oct 7-9 Voter's Values Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington DC, featuring Sean Hannity, William Bennett. Glenn Beck. http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
America Needs Fatima, http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ great web site for rosary
Oct 15 Sat. Noon Public Square Rosary - 2,000 Rosary rallies in 2007 grew to 5,963 last year, 2011 goal is 7000 locations across N.America. See you on Pleasant St.
Sept28-Nov6 Fall 40 Days for Life. 714 babies saved during Spring campaign. If you can volunteer to help please contact Lee Crowley, Sandra Kucharski or Pauline Morris.
Bishops betrayed by Catholic Colleges on assisted suicide.
Old Navy promotes homosexual lifestyle. Send Protest Letter
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;
http://bryanhehirexposed.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/loving-in-the-truth-those-involved-in-the-gay-lifestyle/
Jul 15 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 16 Sat 8AM Mass with Fr. Adam Reid followed by Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 16 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM Radio - interview of Pro-life guest Jeff Quentin, blogger at Americans United for Life. http://datechguyblog.com/
July 16 is the 152nd anniversary of the last apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jul 16 8AM Prayer Vigil to End Abortion at Framingham Union Hospital - St. Stephen Church
Another Note of the attack on Holy Matrimony perpetrated in New York
Jul 22 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 23 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 23 9AM Conservatively Speaking Radio show, WCRN 830AM
Jul 23 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM
Jul 30 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Aug 6 Sat 11AM Our Lady of Mercy Maronite Church June St. Worc, 1st Saturday Devotion returns after two months off, Confessions, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Noon Divine Liturgy Maronite Rite.
Aug 28 Sun 1-6PM St. Paul's Parish Picnic
Oct 7-9 Voter's Values Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington DC, featuring Sean Hannity, William Bennett. Glenn Beck. http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
America Needs Fatima, http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ great web site for rosary
Oct 15 Sat. Noon Public Square Rosary - 2,000 Rosary rallies in 2007 grew to 5,963 last year, 2011 goal is 7000 locations across N.America. See you on Pleasant St.
Sept28-Nov6 Fall 40 Days for Life. 714 babies saved during Spring campaign. If you can volunteer to help please contact Lee Crowley, Sandra Kucharski or Pauline Morris.
Bishops betrayed by Catholic Colleges on assisted suicide.
Old Navy promotes homosexual lifestyle. Send Protest Letter
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;
Jul 2, 2011
Marriage Updates
Jul 4 Mon 6PM Pray the Rosary for America
Last week Democrats in New York passed Same-Sex Marriage with the help of Republicans. Maggie Gallagher writing in the WSJ summed it up Republicans helping a Democratic Governor appease his Democratic base while alienating a large portion of the Republican Base. National Organization for Marriage (NOM) founding Chairman Prof. Robert George and co-writer of the Manhattan Declaration said in a recent interview in the National Review, "It is worth noting that what has happened in New York will have at least one significant good effect for the pro-marriage cause. It will re-nationalize the marriage issue and propel it into the 2012 presidential primaries and general election."
Obviously these Defenders of Traditional Marriage could use your financial Support
Part of this attack on Holy Matrimony was driven by homosexual activist Kevin Jennings, who up until last week controlled a $410Million Budget in the Dept. of Education, that is until http://www.massresistance.org/ exposed him for the deviant he is. Thanks Massresistance!
The nation's largest pro-homosexual activist group, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), credited Home Depot for helping it pass gay marriage in New York State last week. Please remember to boycott Home Depot.
Corporate Persecution - Cisco fired employee Frank Turek because he believed that Marriage was between 1 man and 1 woman. He never mentioned this at work, but a homosexual manager found out he was a conservative and within a hour HR fired him for his beliefs.
And while we're at it, that Study saying 70% of Active Duty Military believe homosexuals should be allowed to server openly in the Military - Made up. Fake. "Pre-Scripted."
Jul6-26 Registration for new 40 Days for Life Prayer campaigns begins
Jul 8 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 9 Sat 8AM Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 16 Sat 8AM Mass with Fr. Adam Reid followed by Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 16 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM Radio - interview of Pro-life guest Jeff Quentin, blogger at Americans United for Life. http://datechguyblog.com/
July 16 is the 152nd anniversary of the last apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jul 16 8AM Prayer Vigil to End Abortion at Framingham Union Hospital - St. Stephen Church
Jul 23 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 23 9AM Conservatively Speaking Radio show, WCRN 830AM
Jul 23 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM
Jul 30 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Aug 6 Sat 11AM Our Lady of Mercy Maronite Church June St. Worc, 1st Saturday Devotion returns after two months off, Confessions, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Noon Divine Liturgy Maronite Rite.
Aug 28 Sun 1-6PM St. Paul's Parish Picnic
Oct 7-9 Voter's Values Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington DC, featuring Sean Hannity, William Bennett. Glenn Beck. http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
America Needs Fatima, http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ great web site for rosary
Oct 15 Sat. Noon Public Square Rosary - 2,000 Rosary rallies in 2007 grew to 5,963 last year, 2011 goal is 7000 locations across N.America. See you on Pleasant St.
Sept28-Nov6 Fall 40 Days for Life. 714 babies saved during Spring campaign. If you can volunteer to help please contact Lee Crowley, Sandra Kucharski or Pauline Morris.
Bishops betrayed by Catholic Colleges on assisted suicide.
Old Navy promotes homosexual lifestyle. Send Protest Letter
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;
Last week Democrats in New York passed Same-Sex Marriage with the help of Republicans. Maggie Gallagher writing in the WSJ summed it up Republicans helping a Democratic Governor appease his Democratic base while alienating a large portion of the Republican Base. National Organization for Marriage (NOM) founding Chairman Prof. Robert George and co-writer of the Manhattan Declaration said in a recent interview in the National Review, "It is worth noting that what has happened in New York will have at least one significant good effect for the pro-marriage cause. It will re-nationalize the marriage issue and propel it into the 2012 presidential primaries and general election."
Obviously these Defenders of Traditional Marriage could use your financial Support
Part of this attack on Holy Matrimony was driven by homosexual activist Kevin Jennings, who up until last week controlled a $410Million Budget in the Dept. of Education, that is until http://www.massresistance.org/ exposed him for the deviant he is. Thanks Massresistance!
The nation's largest pro-homosexual activist group, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), credited Home Depot for helping it pass gay marriage in New York State last week. Please remember to boycott Home Depot.
Corporate Persecution - Cisco fired employee Frank Turek because he believed that Marriage was between 1 man and 1 woman. He never mentioned this at work, but a homosexual manager found out he was a conservative and within a hour HR fired him for his beliefs.
And while we're at it, that Study saying 70% of Active Duty Military believe homosexuals should be allowed to server openly in the Military - Made up. Fake. "Pre-Scripted."
Jul6-26 Registration for new 40 Days for Life Prayer campaigns begins
Jul 8 7:30PM Rosary Bible Study my house
Jul 9 Sat 8AM Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 16 Sat 8AM Mass with Fr. Adam Reid followed by Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 16 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM Radio - interview of Pro-life guest Jeff Quentin, blogger at Americans United for Life. http://datechguyblog.com/
July 16 is the 152nd anniversary of the last apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes
Jul 16 8AM Prayer Vigil to End Abortion at Framingham Union Hospital - St. Stephen Church
Jul 23 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Jul 23 9AM Conservatively Speaking Radio show, WCRN 830AM
Jul 23 10AM-noon Da Tech Guy on Da Radio, WCRN 830AM
Jul 30 Sat Morning Prayer Vigil Protest in front of Planned Parenthood on Pleasant St. Park on Dewey or Hudson St., or Blessed Sacrament Church
Aug 6 Sat 11AM Our Lady of Mercy Maronite Church June St. Worc, 1st Saturday Devotion returns after two months off, Confessions, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Noon Divine Liturgy Maronite Rite.
Aug 28 Sun 1-6PM St. Paul's Parish Picnic
Oct 7-9 Voter's Values Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington DC, featuring Sean Hannity, William Bennett. Glenn Beck. http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
America Needs Fatima, http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/ great web site for rosary
Oct 15 Sat. Noon Public Square Rosary - 2,000 Rosary rallies in 2007 grew to 5,963 last year, 2011 goal is 7000 locations across N.America. See you on Pleasant St.
Sept28-Nov6 Fall 40 Days for Life. 714 babies saved during Spring campaign. If you can volunteer to help please contact Lee Crowley, Sandra Kucharski or Pauline Morris.
Bishops betrayed by Catholic Colleges on assisted suicide.
Old Navy promotes homosexual lifestyle. Send Protest Letter
Jay G.
Prayer Needs;
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