We now have 3 churches confirmed for each day of the week over the next 6 weeks. That's not counting those who have not picked a day yet or who will be playing the field.
That's quite a team assembled!
...God is so good!!!
We are all a team, all people of goodwill who are joining this campaign. We are students, retireees, professionals on our lunch break, men, women, and children. We are the People of God, now a family, gathered to witness to the truth that the very least among us, the most vulnerable, the most forgotten, do not die alone at 320 E. Fulton St. They die entrusted to the Lord through our prayers and our peaceful presence only yards away from them. They will be carried to the loving bosom of the Almighty, the Merciful and Just, with our prayers for comfort. Their bodies may be torn, but their dignity as precious in the eyes of God will not be rent asunder.
This is a vital task ahead of us, dear reader. A vital task indeed~
September 18, 2009
September 17, 2009
KICKOFF RALLY!!!
Sunday, September 20th
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Loosemore Auditorium
Pew Campus, GVSU
401 W. Fulton Street
Grand Rapids
Keynote speaker: Mike Koelzer, R.Ph.
http://www.prolifepharmacy.com/
Clear your schedules! Tell a friend! See you there :)
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Loosemore Auditorium
Pew Campus, GVSU
401 W. Fulton Street
Grand Rapids
Keynote speaker: Mike Koelzer, R.Ph.
http://www.prolifepharmacy.com/
Clear your schedules! Tell a friend! See you there :)
September 15, 2009
Sorrowful exaltation
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. Fittingly, this day follows the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The prophecy of Simeon came true when he told the Virgin Mother, "and you yourself a sword shall pierce." As she stood at the foot of the Cross, weeping, she had only this one consolation: the salvation promised to Israel, her people, would now come into fulfillment.
For by His Cross and Ressurrection, we have been set free!
Indeed we should exalt!
When we stand before the altar of sacrifice, 320 E. Fulton, our hearts may be heavy with sorrow, like Mary. We know the crucible of pain that persists week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade. We stand and watch, helpless, like John, the wife of Clophas, and the others mentioned in the Gospels. Our hearts grieve knowing the unholy acts being performed behind implacable, nondescript office windows. We do not need to see the blood or the wounds, like Thomas, to know that this is real and not some dream.
Yet, are we very different from Thomas? Do we also believe, do we also trust to our very core that this will change? Do we know that already the Lord has triumphed here on Fulton Street? Do we stand- after our sorrow- do we stand exalting the glory of God? Do we praise the Lord for what He has wrought in this very place of abortion?
That we stand in prayer is in fact our triumph! God has called us to be at this place of healing. 320 Fulton is now rendered a site of worship! It is now a place where justice is revealed!
At least...it CAN be...if you, dear reader, will join us. Stand with us. Stand with the lambs who, like Mary, will be pierced before the day is through. You do not stand in vain!
Come, all you nations, let us bow in worship to the blessed cross of the Lord through which eternal justice came to us. He who deceived Adam, the first man, was conquered by a tree, and the same who fettered the royal creation by his guile has been cast down into nothingness. The serpent's venom has been washed away by the divine blood of Christ, and the curse of the sin has been lifted by a rightful sentence when the just Christ was condemned unjustly.
By God's plan, death that had come from a tree would be conquered by a tree, and suffering would be haled by the suffering of the Lord. Glory be to the active presence of your providence in our lives, O Christ our King: through it, you have wrought salvation for all.
--from the book, Byzantine Daily Worship (via Magnificat Press)
For by His Cross and Ressurrection, we have been set free!
Indeed we should exalt!
When we stand before the altar of sacrifice, 320 E. Fulton, our hearts may be heavy with sorrow, like Mary. We know the crucible of pain that persists week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade. We stand and watch, helpless, like John, the wife of Clophas, and the others mentioned in the Gospels. Our hearts grieve knowing the unholy acts being performed behind implacable, nondescript office windows. We do not need to see the blood or the wounds, like Thomas, to know that this is real and not some dream.
Yet, are we very different from Thomas? Do we also believe, do we also trust to our very core that this will change? Do we know that already the Lord has triumphed here on Fulton Street? Do we stand- after our sorrow- do we stand exalting the glory of God? Do we praise the Lord for what He has wrought in this very place of abortion?
That we stand in prayer is in fact our triumph! God has called us to be at this place of healing. 320 Fulton is now rendered a site of worship! It is now a place where justice is revealed!
At least...it CAN be...if you, dear reader, will join us. Stand with us. Stand with the lambs who, like Mary, will be pierced before the day is through. You do not stand in vain!
Come, all you nations, let us bow in worship to the blessed cross of the Lord through which eternal justice came to us. He who deceived Adam, the first man, was conquered by a tree, and the same who fettered the royal creation by his guile has been cast down into nothingness. The serpent's venom has been washed away by the divine blood of Christ, and the curse of the sin has been lifted by a rightful sentence when the just Christ was condemned unjustly.
By God's plan, death that had come from a tree would be conquered by a tree, and suffering would be haled by the suffering of the Lord. Glory be to the active presence of your providence in our lives, O Christ our King: through it, you have wrought salvation for all.
--from the book, Byzantine Daily Worship (via Magnificat Press)
September 14, 2009
We all have our reasons
One of the (less significant) reasons why I enjoy being part of the 40Days campaign is that they employ my favorite color in their logo.
I love the color periwinkle, aka "light blue", because...
a. it's the color of Our Lady.
b. it's the same color as the bowl of the sky on a clear day.
c. it brings out the blue in my eyes when I wear it (or at least that's what a girl in college told me).
d. it was always one of the sharpest crayons left in the box.
e. it contains the word *wink*
Certainly this love of periwinkle was not the motivating factor in my decision to participate in my first campaign two years ago. It does make me happy to see it, though: two wings in flight.
What do you suppose the logo was meant to represent? the spirit triumphant? angels bearing aloft the life of the child? It does look hopeful, doesn't it?
That's really the message we want to convey: Have hope, dear reader. In your time of trial, in your time of darkness, when you feel you have no other choice...hope in the Lord!
Light blue supposedly conveys peace & tranquility. May all those who hope in the Lord be filled with PEACE~
Philippians 4
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6 Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Peace be with you, dear reader!
I love the color periwinkle, aka "light blue", because...
a. it's the color of Our Lady.
b. it's the same color as the bowl of the sky on a clear day.
c. it brings out the blue in my eyes when I wear it (or at least that's what a girl in college told me).
d. it was always one of the sharpest crayons left in the box.
e. it contains the word *wink*
Certainly this love of periwinkle was not the motivating factor in my decision to participate in my first campaign two years ago. It does make me happy to see it, though: two wings in flight.
What do you suppose the logo was meant to represent? the spirit triumphant? angels bearing aloft the life of the child? It does look hopeful, doesn't it?
That's really the message we want to convey: Have hope, dear reader. In your time of trial, in your time of darkness, when you feel you have no other choice...hope in the Lord!
Light blue supposedly conveys peace & tranquility. May all those who hope in the Lord be filled with PEACE~
Philippians 4
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6 Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Peace be with you, dear reader!
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