If you can't walk, donate (please)

Tomorrow, a small group of stalwarts will march from Wandsworth to Wapping to raise funds for The Good Counsel Network to help them assist those who have had abortions and counsel those who are contemplating this awful act.

It is going to be very warm - around 30 degrees celsius, (that's 86 degrees in English and 'bloomin' hot' in Welsh).

Please, if you cannot join them, consider making a donation here https://www.justgiving.com/teams/WandsworthtoWapping

And, if you cannot make a donation, please pray for them and their cause....

"O Lord, Jesus Christ, You Who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life; 

grant graciously that by the intercession of Blessed Mary,

Your Virgin Mother, we, running in the way of Your commandments,

may attain to life-everlasting, Who lives and reigns,

 one God, world without end. Amen."

God has girded me with strength and set my way immaculate.

Our Lady of the Wayside, pray for us and guide us.

Then add three times — the ‘Our Father’, the ‘Hail Mary’, and the ‘Glory be . .... . 

....‘in Our Lady's honour.

Pray hard in Cardiff today

Trying for a conversion in St Mary's street

If you are travelling to Cardiff for the big game, England vs Wales at the Millenium Stadium, don't forget to pray - at the abortuary in St Mary's Street (106-107) where you will find a few stout souls supporting the right to life, the rights of the unborn child, the rights of women who should receive a complete counselling with regard to abortion and its horrendous after effects - if you are walking down St Mary's Street, stop for a few minutes to pray with those keeping watch.

After all, what sort of person could possibly object to prayers being offered on their behalf?

Remember, the 40 Days Vigil is not just about the child and the mother figure, we pray also for those engaged in the abortion industry, the medicos and nurses, administrators and caretakers and, of course, those largely overlooked figures, the fathers.

And, as five o'clock approaches, please spare another prayer for victory on the rugby field.

Is it licit to pray for the victory of one team over another?

I think so, although the Christ in the Don Camillo series always states that He is for all men.

My friend Gareth, from Catholic and Welsh will be praying for a Welsh victory whilst I (as a Sais) shall be praying for the most perfect outcome......

Wales to win.............


.................................by 6 points. Heh, heh!

Taking steps to save life in the womb

                                                                       
David Aron is a young man setting out on a solo walk along the historic River Thames, 184 miles in total from 7th to 14th October - and all to raise funds for The Good Counsel Network, an organisation that works hard on behalf of the unborn and those considering abortion. David needs our prayers and....
....our money.
It is a most worthy cause; at first thought, I envied David the route that he is taking, along the beautiful Thames Valley (being TV, that's Thames Valley, raised myself) but then I remembered that, at the seaward end of the river, it becomes a tad bleaker and the riverside pubs disappear. And then I thought...184 miles? Stone the crows!......where's the sponsor button!

Here is the link for donations www.justgiving.com/davidaron and here is a Thames verse to speed him on his way...

Twenty Bridges from Tower to Kew -                                         Wanted to know what the River knew,                                       Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,                                  For they were young and the Thames was old                                        And this is the tale that the River told:-                                      "I walk my beat before London Town,                                        Five hours up and seven down.                                   Up I go till I end my run                                           At Tide-end-town, which is Teddington.                                         Down I come with the mud in my hands                                                   And plaster it over the Maplin Sands.                                        But I'd have you know that these waters of mine                                        Were once a branch of the River Rhine,                                      When hundreds of miles to the East I went                                            And England was joined to the Continent.                                     "I remember the bat-winged lizard-birds,                                         The Age of Ice and the mammoth herds,                                         And the giant tigers that stalked them down                                        Through Regent's Park into Camden Town.                                        And I remember like yesterday                                     The earliest Cockney who came my way,                                 When he pushed through the forest                                                                         that lined the Strand,                                         With paint on his face and a club in his hand.                                              He was death to feather and fin and fur.                                              He trapped my beavers at Westminster.                                                 He netted my salmon, he hunted my deer,                                                 He killed my heron off Lambeth Pier.                                         He fought his neighbour with axes and swords,                                  Flint or bronze, at my upper fords,                                             While down at Greenwich, for slaves and tin,                        The tall Phoenician ships stole in,                                             And North Sea war-boats, painted and gay,                                         Flashed like dragon-flies, Erith way;                                         And Norseman and Negro and Gaul and Greek                                      Drank with the Britons in Barking Creek,                                  And life was gay, and the world was new,                                   And I was a mile across at Kew!                                       But the Roman came with a heavy hand,                                         And bridged and roaded and ruled the land,                                         And the Roman left and the Danes blew in -                                         And that's where your history-books begin!" Rudyard Kipling

Good Counsel Network and Lanherne - 2 good causes

James over at Catholic and Loving it posts on a young man who is undertaking a sponsored walk on behalf of the Good Counsel Network - if you would like to read about it, click on the link...you may also make a contribution from James's post.

http://www.lovingit.co.uk/2011/09/184-miles-in-eight-days-for-the-good-counsel-network.html

And I have spoken to one of the friars at Lanherne who confirms that closure is on the cards.....they need money to stay in residence as it is the owners who are wanting to sell.

Again, if you wish to contribute,please send a cheque (made payable to The Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate) to:

Mother Superior
Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate
House of Contemplation of the Blessed Virgin of Mt Carmel
St Mawgan in Pydar
Cornwall
TR8 4ER

THE HOUSE OF HORRORS

BEHIND THESE SEEMINGLY INNOCENT DOORS, FOUL MURDER IS BOTH PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT. HERE IN A LEAFY, PLEASANT SQUARE IN THE CENTRE OF LONDON, BABIES ARE BEING SLAIN ON A DAILY BASIS.

    ONLY 50 PER CENT OF THE PATIENTS WHO   
        ENTER HERE WILL COME OUT ALIVE!


My wife and I joined the 40 Days for Life vigil outside the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) offices (26 Bedford Square) last Friday. They cannot even come clean with their name; it's not pregnancy advice, it's abortion advice, how to get rid of the infant in your womb.
There were not many of us. A total of six volunteers, including ourselves, came and went within the space of two hours. The organisation is in dire need of more cover from more volunteers so please, even if you only have 30 minutes to spare, sign on here and call by. It is always an unnerving experience standing up in public and proclaiming your beliefs. Praying the rosary and other prayers out loud for all to see and gawp at calls on our convictions. But, of course, that is part of the point, it is the Sacrament of Confirmation kicking in and giving us the moral courage to do such things and it is also seeing the courage of the 40 Days 'formal' volunteers and those from the Good Counsel Network that is so very inspirational. These people do this routinely but, I suspect, with the same difficulties that we 'informal' volunteers suffer.

Some 10 or 12 women entered the abortuary, none accompanied by husbands or boyfriends. A similar number of males came and went independently. Some took the leaflets offered by the volunteer at the door, others politely demurred. Meanwhile, we recited our decades, chanted our litanies and said the Angelus at 12 noon.
We left with a sense of relief (standing still on one spot for too long) and a modest sense of accomplishment; an ambition realised at last, a good cause supported.

I could not help but feel, however, that more Catholics should be taking part. Is abortion now such a by word that the man or woman in the pew no longer recoil from it? Has the destruction of life in the womb become totally socially acceptable? Where are the priests, the Bishops, the nuns and the brothers? Well, to be fair, some were at the alternative vigil outside the Marie Stopes abortuary in nearby Whitfield Street.

I hesitate to offer criticism when such a good cause is the subject but, why have two sessions running at the same time? I am at a bit of a loss as to comprehending just who the varying Catholic/Christian pro life groups are. SPUC of course is well known but how do Mary Stops Abortion, The Good Counsel Network and The 40 Days for Life initiative relate to on another? Could they, perhaps, work together more closely?

There is a Brighton based secular group who also do excellent work. They are confrontational in terms of displaying graphic images, the jury appears out on this delicate issue - are shock tactics (realism) good or bad?
But they do appear to be ultra organised, here is a snippet from their update email service:

We are planning to hold the first of our central London displays on Tuesday the 29th of March.  (Timings to be confirmed)

The abortion providers like to portray themselves as moderate, professional and caring organisations.  We want their neighbours to see what "Reproductive Health" looks like.  We will be taking large banners depicting the beauty of life and the brutality of abortion to their doors.  We can't do that without your help.

We need:
Someone who can drive the team to London from the Brighton area (fuel/parking and congestion will be paid for)
Camera person
Banner holders
Counsellors
Post-abortive women
Donors to help pay for fuel/parking and congestion charge as well as other expenses!!

Please let us know as soon as possible if you are able to help.

Ends/................

This is not meant as a sniping comment, I am a believer in learning from the success of others. One thing is absolutely crystal clear.......MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! There are 34 more days to go...please do it!

One last point, when doctors or nurses who carry out abortions are at dinner parties or other social events and their neighbour leans across to ask:
"What do you do for a living?"
How do they frame their answer?