Life Chain Oct 1, Pro-Life Politics

Catholic Vote Summary:
Senate Republicans bailed on their health care bill, so no reform to Obamacare this year.
49 Republican Senators tried to unwind the disastrous and immoral Obamacare, to Abolished the individual & employee mandates forcing abortion related service payments on everyone including the poor, to Defunded Planned Parenthood, government subsidiezed abortions. The bill was abandoned because it fell at least one vote short. We could blame Republicans John McCain (AZ), Rand Paul (KY), Susan Collins (ME), and Lisa Murkowski (AK) but do not forget that not a single Senate Democrat supported reform. Let's emphasize...and every Democrat Healt Insurance plan includes taxpayer-funded abortion. Health insurance premiums of millions of hard-working American families will continue to skyrocket.
With that in mind remember this list of the most vulnerable Senators up for re-election next year:
Missouri: Pro-abortion “Catholic” Claire McCaskill
Indiana: “Catholic” Joe Donnelly claims he’s pro-life but votes to fund Planned Parenthood. He also invests in companies that outsource jobs to Mexico.
Pennsylvania: Allegedly “pro-life Democrat” Robert Casey, Jr. continues to betray Catholic voters despite his father’s proud pro-life legacy.
Montana: Current NARAL backed Democratic Senator Jon Tester openly supports abortion. His probable opponent? Matt Rosendale, proud Catholic and defender of life. Trump won Montana 56%-35%.
North Dakota: “Catholic” Heidi Heitkamp is unabashed in her support for abortion. She has also voted against restoring religious liberty protections for Catholic schools and hospitals. Trump won here 63%-27%.
Democrats must also defend Senate seats in every rust belt state won by Trump (WI, MI, PA, OH) next year.

P.S. It’s not all bad news. Just today, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, announced a vote on protecting children in the womb. The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would prevent abortions on children in the 5th month of pregnancy and beyond.
The vote in the House is not expected to be difficult. They passed this same legislation two years ago.
The battle, it always seems, is in the Senate.

Illinois governor Rauner won election in 2014 by promising voters he would focus on the fiscal mess in Illinois -- and remain neutral on social issues. Yet, despite giving his word he would veto the law, he signed a new law authorizing taxpayer funding for abortion, for any reason. IL needs a new Gov. Call his office at 217-782-0244 or 312-814-2121.

Please consider signing the Pro-Life Appeal to Cardinal O’Malley and All Massachusetts Bishops to stop honoring Pro-abortion politicians.

Oct 1 Sun 1pm Massachusetts March for Life on Boston Common at the Parkman Bandstand
Oct 1 Sun 2-3:30pm 30th annual Life Chain. This prayerful witness to the sacredness of human life is held annually on Respect Life Sunday across the nation. Signs will be available at the local Life Chain stations: Elm Park, Worcester, Denny's Restaurant on Lincoln St., Worcester, and White City, Shrewsbury. The event will be held rain or shine. All are welcome! For more information, contact Louise at 508-756-1150.

DAY 48 - MARY, QUEEN OF THE FAMILY, PRAY FOR US of the 54-day Novena for our Nation
SHOCK TROOPS
KING: As Jean-Baptiste Chautard recounts in his book The Soul of the Apostolate, Pope St. Pius X was conversing with a group of his cardinals one day. The pope asked them:
"What is the thing we most need, today, to save society?"
"Build Catholic schools," said one.
"No."
"More churches," said another.
"Still no."
"Speed up the recruiting of priests," said a third.
"No, no," said the pope, "the most necessary thing of all, at this time, is for every parish to possess a group of laymen who will be at the same time virtuous, enlightened, resolute, and truly apostolic."
Chautard continues, "Further details enable us to assert that this holy pope at the end of his life saw no hope for the salvation of the world unless the clergy could use their zeal to form faithful Christians full of apostolic ardor, preaching by word and example, but especially by example. In the diocese where he served before being elevated to the papacy, he attached less importance to the (count) of parishioners than to the list of Christians capable of radiating an apostolate. It was his opinion that shock troops could be formed in any environment."

Oct 2 Mon 7:15-8pm, through October 30 NOVENA FOR THE SICK St Joseph
Sixth Annual Novena to St. Joseph continues, pray for the sick and dying and for an end to physician-assisted suicide. Second of Nine consecutive Mondays with different homilists each week. Christ the King Church, 1052 Pleasant St., Worcester. All are welcome!

Oct 6 Fri 8pm 1st Friday Mass celebrated by Fr. Miguel Pagan, Chaplain St. Vincent’s Hospital, followed by all night adoration until 8am 1st Saturday Mass with Fr. Michael Roy in the Problem Pregnancy Chapel, 495 Pleasant St. Worc. Everyone is welcomed. All Adoration hours could use backup. Scheduled Adorers 9PM –open 10PM – Paul, Julie 11PM – Cindy 12 AM midnight – Fran W, 1AM – open/Carol 2AM open 3AM – Jay G 5AM – Fred M - Bob D 6:00 – Adrian 7AM – Kathy. All hours could use a backup, including at 6-7AM.
Oct 7 Sat 8am 1st Saturday Mass celebrated by Fr. Michael Roy in the Problem Pregnancy, chapel, other masses at Our Lady of Mercy Maronite (confession) June St. and St. George’s Brattle St.
Oct 7 Sat Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is also the end of the 54 Day Rosary Novena for Our Nation that started Aug 15 on the Feast of the Assumption. This Novena will end with a Rosary Rally in Washington DC, were Rosary prayers will be scapularized and weaponized with 1000 plastic bottles of Epiphany Holy Water and another 1000 plastic bottles of Epiphany Blessed Salt, all Exorcised and Blessed by Fr. Z.
Oct 7 Sat 3pm confession, 4pm Mass First Saturday Adoration, Confession, Rosary and Divine Mercy, Our Lady of Mercy Church 341 June St. Worcester. Consecrate yourself to Our Lady of Fatima

Oct 13 Fri 7pm Rosary and Mass in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Portugal. St. Mary of the Hills Churc, 630 Cross St., Boylston, MA
Oct 14 Sat noon, 100 years and a day since the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Please join the BIGGEST public rosary in history any time after 9am, official start at noon. 11,000 people have already signed up to be Rosary Captains. Pleasant St. Worcester.

Oct 23 Mon, 8:45am-6:15pm Converging Roads Conference in Worcester! A Medical Ethics Conference on End-of-Life Issues, Assumption College 500 Salisbury St. Worcester, MA


9th of 12 Cardinals and Bishops Condemn Gender Theory Madness. Great Quotes.
Most Rev. Frederick Bernard Henry, Bishop of Calgary, Alberta -- Canada
“What is at stake [in the fight against gender theory] is the very order of creation [...]

“The primordial divine plan was spoken of clearly by Christ himself: 'Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?' (Mt.19:4). At the core we see the father and the mother, a couple with their personal story of love: 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh' (Gen.2:24). The result of this union is that, both physically and in the union of their hearts and lives, and eventually, in a child who will share not only genetically but also spiritually in the 'flesh' of both parents. The family is thus the place where parents become their children’s first teachers.”

God Bless America
Jay G.

Prayer List:; All 40 Days for Life volunteers and everyone in the Pro-Life movement for protection from Spiritual attacks, Milania at Visitation House, Steve & Debbie and their kids, Adriana, Josie Mc for insight