Face of Pro-Life #82 – Leticia Velasquez on how to Keep Infants with Down Syndrome ( 30min) >>> Play

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Leticia Velasquez tells her plight on the difficulties of finding health care for her child Christa who has Down Syndrome. In her effort to look out for her child and help others in the same situation she started an organization called K.I.D.S. for Keep Infants with Down Syndrome. The group especially tries to encourage expectant mothers who have a pre-born child diagnosed with Down to keep their child in the face of tremendous pressure from their medical community, family and friends to have an abortion. She focuses on the joys of having one of these special children and how they go down to Washington DC each year for the March for Life.

You can read her blog:
Keep Infants with Down Syndrome blog

and Facebook:
Keep Infants with Down Syndrome Facebook Group

Last year’s K.I.D.S. trip to March for Life in DC!

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Homily #100528s ( 17min) Play – On the start of the Father-Son Encampment for the Knights of Lepanto during the Octave of Pentecost, Fr. Angelo preaches in the importance of grace in fulfilling the duty in the Christian life as we struggle against our fallen nature. This is chiefly given by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us when we were Baptized and who’s presence is increased during Confirmation. Father also talks about spending to much time on social sites on the internet.
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Friar Roderic Burke takes you on a Franciscan Cyberspace Odyssey as he explains how Facebook has created a divisive, toxic mix of computers, social media, artificial intelligence, and commercial advertising, and then he explains how to fix this with a dose of Franciscan spirituality, focused on Mary the mother of Christ. And he does this all in five-minutes, … well … sort of. He covers:

0:00 – Introduction
1:58 – Materialism: Unhappy, Divisive Lie
2:37 – Divisiveness for more materialistic ads
3:53 – Having HAL and Facebook Lie Corrupts them
4:18 – Charitable Advertising is the Remedy
5:11 – Rebalance Charitable vs. Commercial Advertising
5:29 – Taxes & Tax Breaks
5:52 – Equality from Charity
6:34 – Unitive Spirituality & Charity
7:09 – Heals Secular vs. Religious division
7:33 – Exemplified by Christ & Mary
7:56 – Religious Conviction for Unity
8:20 – Conclusion: Cyberspace & Outer Space Odyssey

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