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Health and spiritual needs:
Lisa Lauring Kennedy stage 4 lung cancer given 6-9 months to live, Michele and Alicia, Haiti, Bob Chernisky Jr. leukemia, Bob M. serious cancer, Chloe born 13 weeks premature, grieving family of Nathan N., 3-year old Matthew in ICU with flu/pneumonia, Helen Wright - brain aneurysm; Irene Johnson-urgent; Mark- employment; Ed heart, Jim, Caroline needs a job to make ends meet while she short-sells her home, Ashley and her family; Ken W. who is dying; Sara M.- battling 2 cancers; Raymond with heart problems; Cheryl G.- in Thanksgiving to Saint Joseph for answered prayer, Jessica 21 has 15 month old son and has MRSA and only has 8 months to live (her sister is at Visitation House), Edward Joseph Parker-Gagne born last October 3 1/2 months premature and weighing only weighs 1 lb. 14 ozs now weighs 5 lbs, but needs eye surgery before he can go home, Deacon Bob Conner who lost his mother and brother recently, Little Edward Joseph, Jack McGuirk leukemia, Bob recently widowed, with two boys to raise, Peachie with Sjögren's disease/Lupus, Barbara R.- URGENT as she is dying NOW; Brian N.- cancer; David- whose wife left family with 3 children; Lisa- who left husband and 4 children- that they reunite and the children and Dad find strength, comfort, and faith, and that the Mom returns home, Ron's sister with brain tumor, My cousin Barbara B. who's back on chemo, Chris T. second operation, Sherry, (waiting for lung transplant), Robbie Coudert, Lauri, four babies now at Visitation House Damien the newest and Grace gained weight and is a real fighter, Marilyn Birnie from "Friends of the Unborn", George recovery from leg surgery, John Benoit who's in Life Care in Auburn, Sean Seely married with 5 yr old twins has leukemia going for 2nd bone marrow, Pam G. and Molly full recoveries from Cancer, Georgia and her daughter 2 lb. 1 oz. daughter Grace who needs heart surgery, Keishela. Abortion workers seeking new jobs. Ramona neck injury, Sue Kucharshi (Sandy's sister) hip replacement surgery 5/21, Esther, Nialah for a daughter and for faith, hope and understanding.
"Dear God, I pray for the cure of cancer. Amen" - anon, Margie for her ministry to the unborn, Sheila, Paul the Holy Jumper, Mike Fields heart, Lisa Chamberlain Portsmouth England and her son Travis, Little Daniel who’s just diagnosed with an autism, 23 years old, 18 weeks pregnant, scheduled for an abortion in Pittsfield MA, Harry L., Jimmy B. heart, Stephen Galante who lost his fiance to a car accient - and his family; Bobby, Patty, Robert, Amanda, Chris, Travis and Thomas; Mark Forkey chemo, Joseph Tisdell, Phillip Monahan, John Tisdell shoulder surgery, Sylvia Fernandez from the Boston Pro-Life office, mother of 9 kids, has colon cancer, baby Sophia Freshteh Talebreza-Fischer who weighed 1 lb 8 oz at birth, and was 12.25 in. tall. President Obama and his cabinet and our elected officials, Monique and her baby Miracle from Baltimore, Bill G., Becky, Mark F. and others who are currently job seeking, toddler Moshe Holtzberg who’s parent’s were killed in Mumbai, Minnie P.; Vite T., baby Alyssa born prematurely at 2lbs, she's fighting for her life, Barry K. young man with Prostate cancer. Fr. Aloysius Nuolabong detached retina, Tom Brady, Lexi - 4 year old girl with Leukemia, Alice B., Kathleen jaw surgery (she’s fallen away but actually asked her mom to pray for her), John at St. George’s, Jacob cancer, conversion of younger sister Jane who is leaving her husband, and has a 2 year old, pray for reversion to her Faith. John H. heart attack Fran recovery from ACL surgery, Michele who is four months pregnant with her fourth child – who was diagnosed with Downs and a heart defect and Mom is being pressured to abort, Michele’s husband for a change of heart, Jim G. back surgery Wed 6/25, Gary G. - vertigo, Tina - advanced cancer; Jennifer - bi-polar depression; Jan - special intention; Tony L.- Alzheimer's and vision loss, Barbara, Curt (heart valve replacement infected and needs to be replaced again) and sons, Bob back surgery, Ted Kennedy conversion before he dies, Rachel Lee, a ten year old with a brain tumor. "for a couple with marriage problems" and their two young kids, For Mary and her young son Ryan that they may live in peace and happiness in their new home, Continued Grace for Karen and Bill and for all the folks' at the Barre Rosary/prayer group; David and Annick; Amy and Shawn, For the success of The Divine Mercy conferences in Rome, Deb H’s dad Gerard Thibert rushed to ICU and her mom RoseMarie, Alex collapsed at a high school track meet, had to have CPR, and is still unconscious in the hospital, with liver and kidney damage and possible brain damage, Elizabeth Dubay - muscular dystrophy, Shawn L. - broken arm in two places requiring surgery, Shari W's daughter Lyme disease, Robin cancer, Kay Pingeton-serious health issues; Jean-personal intention, Alex, a fifteen year old boy from Worcester who has been transferred to Boston Children's Hospital with heart failure resulting from a flu-type cold, K. Carlson cancer, Patrick Swayze, Sheila M. and Dennis P. conversion, Larry with Lymphoma, 9-year Ethan serious surgery, Luke Thrun and family, 8-year-old Prayers answered for Allie with collapsed lung and medically induced coma she's doing much better, Stacey (brain cancer) and Joe Persichetti, and their unborn son, John, Fr. Thomas Coover Bishop John McCormack and Fr. Edward Arsenault of New Hampshire, thanks for the successful kidney donation by Emmanuelle to her son Rémy, Joseph S. cancer Debbie S. musculor dystrophy, Rob in Worc. County House of Correction, Alice F., Nancy R. serious infection, freshman Christina L. and her college room-mate, Police Officer "Mike" in Georgia very seriously wounded while on duty, Nancy A. cancer, Ed Snell and John McTernan, David Y. to get a good job; for Eric Young; John Settle- advanced cancer, Mike Cormier bone marrow transplant, Dean's brother thyroid cancer, Yvonne and her son, Jan H's father and siblings in this time of her mother's death, John Benoit coronary bypass recovery, his wife Phyllis and all the Benoit and Bernard families, Jamie kidneys, Peter, For "Eddy" to realize Confession is a pre-requisite to Communion; P,D,A,M,B; "Mimi"; Mike; Kate W; Kate; Beth; Cory; Dan and family and a very special intention; Jack; Katie K., Julie M., Carmine, Yanni, Nancy, Mary L. stroke (and her mother), Jane and Ethan spiritual conversion, 15-year-old Nikki - very painful neuralgia. Carrie, Kevin Dolan; Kristin S., Cheryl S., Roland K.-leukemia; Tom and Barbara D. and children, Holy Cross, Sheila, Mike and family, Olivia near death, Michele T. and family, Sylvia, Courtney and kids, Mary R., Leah L. and family, Anne with Huntington's, Ruthie, "Mother of Mercy" field alter at the Divine Mercy, Johanna and her family, Anderson family, Tom in prison, Jack, Mary A., Skip Morley cancer, Flora Kunst -cancer, Rich Bard -cancer; Dave C.’s ministry and God’s will, Deb S's father for exploratory heart surgery, murderer Devaughdre Broussard, Tom B. in the Marines; Richard-emphysema, John Thomas who just joined the Marines, Andy Meier, and all injured in the Medjugoria bus crash, 4 year old girl Sky with inoperable brain tumor, House for Franciscan Nuns at St. Pauls, Rob McSheehy heart, Edward and Claire Young and family; Marie J., Janesse H., Steve, Thea and Sebastian, Lila Cystic fibrosis, Luanne cancer, Clement Krug lost intestines to cancer, McConahy family, Debbie V. housing, Patricia's nurse friend who calls priests for the dying, Terry near death with family problems, the following have cancer; Chris D. Henry V., "Abel" from Ghana, John Gagen Maxine H.. Heather Grimes and her team in Australia and their sponsorship, and the families of all the kids she meets, Phyllis McAuliffe, Claude D. lung cancer, Paul M. GBS, John C. esophagus, Judy C. lung cancer, Jenny, 15-year old boy named "T.J." and his parents, "M.R. Jr." and family, "L.B.", Carlene F., Baby Michael to thrive, 2-year old Jacob had a seizure, Mary Carmen Parenchyma lung cancer, Al Freeman, Special intention for Patricia, Larry C. Sarah L., Mike Paul's daughter Dee's health, Denise suicide who left 5 kids and husband. Justine brain cancer, Rosemary Shevchuk lupus; Deborah Harding; Gwen and Greg; Paula and Jim and family; Greg Anderson in the Marines in Iraq; Michael Morin in the Air Force in Iraq; Florienne Shevchuk; Anne Boudreau. Robert, Susan and Rob (divorced) and their girls Molly and Mackenzie, that they find God. Chris C., Lisa H. and family, and Vite T., Kathy L's mom, ‘Hopey’ McAulliffe (14), epilepsy and strength and direction for her mom Debbie, Anthony Leone, Rosalind Pingeton, Gayle McAulliffe, Shirley Somadelis, Makbulay 95 year-old women at Holy Trinity nursing home, Bernard family, Barbara Hoaglund stroke, Shawn P. liver, employment, Mike P‘s family life and marriage, Shane B., 12 year old with lymphoma, Richard and Dorothy B. health, Katie of 'Erin and Katie; Edmund Bachand loss of sight; Cindy Hagan cancer; Ginny P cancer; John B age, heart; Peggy O'Shea; Rod M.; Cheryl G. and family; Chris T, Jim C, Bridget’s mother, neuropathy. Also please pray for the work and the people of The Marians of the Immaculate Conception; the "13th of the month club" at the Divine Mercy; the "Friends of Mercy" club in all Stockbridge, MA.

Recently Deceased: Shirley Somadelis, Ian H's family after his mother-in-law found dead under suspicious circumstances, David Cross, David Scott, Janesse Hoaglund, Patrick Swayze, 19 year old Brittany was in i.c.u., Ted Kennedy, Skip, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Al Thoman, Patty G., John Bellione, Bob DeMarco 51 father of three boys, Georga's father, Mike Paul's mother-in-law Dorothy, Mari Loli of Garabindal, Jerry, Defender of Life Pat Taylor, Nicasia Hernandez, Cardinal Pio Laghi, Ed Brosnihan, Paul Carnaza, Christina Kuhn car accident 2/4/09, Peter Catches, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Steve, Ann Carnaza, Sunny von Bulow, Henry Veroneau; Marie Jerome, Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah killed in Mumbai, Col. John W. Ripley, USMC (Ret.); Charlie (husband of Caroline), Minnie Paquette, Paul Newman, young Tim O'Connor from leukemia, Msr. Thomas Sullivan's father Tom, Tony Snow, Jesse Helms, Tim Russert, Frank Shea, Ray Mahon, Dick Martin, Jean Marie (Kennedy) Roach, 27 year old James in VA in a coma after car crash died 4/11 after life support removed, Bishop's brother Joseph Reilly, Anne Butrym, Tom Lewis, William F. Buckley Jr., Nancy Brodeur who was on our prayer list for advanced cancer has passed away;Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho who was kidnapped by gunmen in Mosul Iraq, Scott Chalfin died suddenly at 38, Nancy Petty, Lynda's mother-in-law, Boston Firefighter Richard Besse (husband of Gail Besse) 1/22/08 after a 10 month battle with cancer, Jeffrey Berglund, Carol T's and Janice's uncle Ed Reavey who was 99, Jackie Brosnihan, Pat Geneva, Bill Ash, Maxine Hargrove; Abel from Ghana, Dorothy McBride, William Amidon, Atty. John Spillane passed away on Christmas, Jan Hardy's mother, Joseph D'Andrea Sr., Jeffrey Mailman, 2-month Clover Ann Paul, Charlie O'Neil, Lawrence McAulliffe, Jeff Pallotta, Irene Figoni, Tom Yacuzzi, Pavorati, Sharon Condon, 19 year-old Andrew Tate, journalist Chauncy Bailey, Leo Trembley, Ellen Prunier, June Butrym, Nicole Shoemaker, Lillian Williams, David Westra age 41 died of leukemia – he took pictures of the 9/11 towers http://westra.com/disaster/, Ira Halliday, Patrick Hayden, Anne Decelles, Fr. Al's Dad in Ghana, Kathleen Harrity, Mari Carmen Perochena, Andrew Kenny, Little Audry Santo, Darryl Stingley, Melissa, Norman A. Tisdell, Jr., Bishop McManus’s mother, Stephen Cardinale, Peter Kelleher, Martha Sosman, Michael Dombrowski, Isabella Sliten, Jim Kenary; Mike O’Shea, Chris Santom's mom, Michael J.O'Toole, Vincent A. Librandi, Gerald Ford, Edward Sampson, Saddam Hussein, Chau Bridgeo, Dana Ashford (Emma M’s grandpa); Maj. Megan McClung, Capt. Travis Patriquin, Erin of 'Erin and Katie', Mark Booden, David O. West, Travis D. Monroe, Ruth Ingalls, Karen Arsenault, Joan Hendrickson, Naomi Rose Ebersole 7, Anna Mae Stoltzfus 12, Marian Fisher 13, Mary Liz Miller 8, Lisa Miller 7, Charles Roberts, Fred J. Moriarty, sister Leonella Sgorbati, Richard Fisher, Fr. Roland Gamache, Daniel A. Brady, Anthony ‘Bucky’ Ford, Emily Lamacchia, Bill Donahue Sr., Fr. James Shea, Jose F. Barrera, Officer Paul Barry, Leonard White, Eileen Sullivan, Clare Curtin, Jerry Freeman, Mary Volin, Sarah W., younger brother of Billy from Heifer Project, A.Kulandairaj, Ray T., Tom L.. Robert S., Kathy N., Ottilie L., Thomas M. Jr. and Joseph C.

Conversion: all our fallen-away friends and family members, Alan L., John H., Brett M., the parents of young Emmet and Sophia, who want to go to Church. Conversion for Tommie and his fellow atheists (Stardust), and for the hearing in Tommie’s right ear so that he would convert at this sign. Larry W. Jones. President of TV Land. Harry Forbes, the Director of the USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting.

The grace of a good death

As I stated previously in A Tale of two Kennedys" of Senator Ted Kennedy: May almighty God grant him the grace of conversion and a good death. Now that Kennedy is dead, I still believe we should pray for his soul and have clearly stated so several times.

At Mass this morning a fellow parishioner asked me if I watched Kennedy's funeral yesterday, which I did, and what I thought of it. This parishioner was glad that Kennedy had written his 10 page letter to the Pope, and seemed to think Kennedy had repented. I related that I was not that impressed, since Kennedy had formally and publicly cooperated in the intrinsic evil of abortion, I would have liked to have seen a public repentance. I was told "So you're still judging Kennedy." "No I am not at all" I replied, "I'm simply applying the Catechism, which says Kennedy was excommunicated automatically."

I cannot for the life of me understand how someone can be indifferent to the 36 years of Scandal Ted Kennedy has been to the faithful. Yes we want sinners to repent, but this is no longer about Ted Kennedy. It is about the Bishops.

Letter to Ed - Obamacare

President Obama's single-payer Health Care as a National mandated “right” violates the Catholic principle of subsidiarity, that problems should be addressed at the local level. This alone is reason enough for Catholics to oppose this form of Socialism. The government does not need to run these programs – think Cash for Clunkers, Fannie Mae, and the lines at the Registry of Motor Vehicles – especially when simply mandating that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions coupled with tort reform and electronic medical record keeping could save millions of dollars (and who knows how many lives).

But ObamaCare is not just about subsidiarity, it's about government control of the very dignity of our lives: who gets what in terms of health benefits. We should all feel the chill at the idea that a “death panel” of bureaucrats will review every pill, hip replacement, chemotherapy and transplant. They look to save money on the backs of our grandparents and less-than-perfect children.

Finally, because of an implicit right to government-funded abortion in all of the versions of ObamaCare, I hope that other successors to the Apostles will join with Justin Cardinal Rigali, Bishop William F. Murphy, and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, who have spoken out strongly against these bills. It's time for all of us to speak out, before it is too late.

Sincerely,

Jay G

HLI on Kennedy

Human Life International's Statement on the Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy

We must, as a matter of precept, pray for the salvation of heretical Catholics like Senator Edward Kennedy, but we do not have to praise him let alone extol him with the full honors of a public Catholic funeral and all the adulation that attends such an event. There was very little about Ted Kennedy's life that deserves admiration from a spiritual or moral point of view. He was probably the worst example of a Catholic statesman that one can think of. When all is said and done, he has distorted the concept of what it means to be a Catholic in public life more than anyone else in leadership today.

Obviously we don't know the state of Senator Edward Kennedy's soul upon death. We don't pretend to. We are told by the family that he had the opportunity to confess his sins before a priest, and his priest has said publicly he was "at peace" when he died. For that we are grateful. But it is one thing to confess one's sins and for these matters to be kept, rightfully, private. It is another thing entirely for one who so consistently and publicly advocated for the destruction of unborn human beings to depart the stage without a public repudiation of these views, a public confession, as it were.

It is up to God to judge Senator Kennedy's soul. We, as rational persons, must judge his actions, and his actions were not at all in line with one who values and carefully applies Church teaching on weighty matters. Ted Kennedy's positions on a variety of issues have been a grave scandal for decades, and to honor this "catholic" champion of the culture of death with a Catholic funeral is unjust to those who have actually paid the price of fidelity. We now find out that President Obama will eulogize the Senator at his funeral, an indignity which, following on the heels of the Notre Dame fiasco, leaves faithful Catholics feeling sullied, desecrated and dehumanized by men who seem to look for opportunities to slap the Church in the face and do so with impunity simply because they have positions of power.

It is not enough for Kennedy to have been a "great guy behind the scenes" as we have seen him referred to even by his political opponents. It is also not praiseworthy to put a Catholic rhetorical veneer on his leftist politics that did nothing to advance true justice as the Church sees it or to advance the peace of Christ in this world. Every indication of Senator Kennedy's career, every public appearance, every sound bite showed an acerbic, divisive and partisan political hack for whom party politics were much more infallible than Church doctrines. Whatever one's political affiliation, if one is only "Catholic" to the extent that his faith rhymes with his party line, then his Catholicism is a fraud.

As the Scriptures remind us, there is a time for everything under the sun. This, now, is the time for honesty about our Faith and about those who are called to express it in the public forum. If we do not remind ourselves of the necessity of public confession for public sins such as Senator Kennedy was guilty of, then we are negligent in our embrace of the Faith and we are part of the problem. As Pope Benedict has reminded us recently, charity without truth can easily become mere sentimentality, and we must not fall into that error. A Catholic show of charity for the family must not eclipse the truth that is required of all with eyes to see and ears to hear.

Senator Kennedy needs to be sent to the afterlife with a private, family-only funeral and the prayers of the Church for the salvation of his immortal soul. He will not be missed by the unborn who he betrayed time and time again, nor by the rest of us who are laboring to undo the scandalous example of Catholicism that he gave to three generations of Americans.

Sincerely,

Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International

Ted Kennedy RIP

We pray for the soul of Senator Ted Kennedy, not because he deserves it but because Jesus asks and God wills all to be saved[1Tim2:4]. The Senator lived a life of privilege, and dissipation, but renounced his pro-life beliefs in the early 70s or even the late 60s.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2272 says
"Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. 'A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,'"

Since Ted Kennedy publicly promoted government funded abortion, I think it logical to conclude that he formally cooperated in abortion, and that would mean he incurred excommunication. If this is true, then why was Ted given a rite of Christian burial inside of a Catholic Church? Now I understand Kennedy wanted the Cathedral for his funeral, but was denied that. But that was at best a private snub, certainly not a fraternal correction.

Several years ago a pro-life journalist "managed to corner Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. The journalist pressed them on how they square being Catholic, and at the same time, unqualifiedly pro-abortion. Kennedy said, 'I take my beliefs, I take my religion, very seriously. Look, I know who I am and what I believe.' Then, speaking of the bishops, he said, 'It's their problem, not mine.' Kerry responded to the reporter's question, 'If the bishops can't do and won't say anything about that, don't come to me. You know what I'm saying?'"

I suppose our shepherds expect the faithful to watch their step, but a little moral guidance would have been appreciated.

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