Leticia Valesquez is calling all mothers of Down Syndrome babies to converge on DC for the 2009 March for Life. Currently 90% of all Down Syndrome babies are aborted. Read all about it at her blog, Cause of our Joy

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Standing Fast #29 – Fr. Angelo speaks to the Teenagers ( 20min) >>> Play

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Fr. Angelo gives a talk on chivalry to the older kids (12 and up) at the Knights of Lepanto Encampment, covering what chivalry meant popularly in Medieval times, what it has come to mean popularly today and the truly noble meaning it acquired with St Francis and how we need to live this noble and saintly chivalry today.

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Roving Reporter #72 – Eduardo in Connecticut ( 10min) >>> Play

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On August 11th Eduardo Verastegui, the lead actor in the award winning pro-life movie Bella, came to the Eastern Connecticut University campus in Willimantic and gave a press conference followed by a talk in front of a packed auditorium. The event was organized by the Sisters of Charity in Baltic, Ct. We captured the press conference and are presenting it in three parts.

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Eduardo talks about his upcoming movies including one on St Peter with a $160 million budget. Then he discusses his company Metanoia Films and the difficult road of being an independent film producer. He mentions his recently completed world tour for the promotion of the movie Bella. And, finally, about his new non-profit organization Mantle of Guadalupe (Espanol) with which he goes on world missions to give help to the pour and is helping to build a hospital for pregnant mothers in a downtown LA Latino barrio.

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Theresa Krankowski on St Gerard’s Center for Life which is right across the street from an abortion clinic in Wethersfield, CT.  She discusses what they do for pregnant mothers, their efforts to get a sonogram  to help mothers see their unborn child and why the center is named after St Gerard.

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Roderick Murphy comes to Face of Pro-life to discuss with Corinn Dahm the Problem Pregnancy Center of which he is director and his new book, Stopping Abortion at Death’s Door. He describes how he makes sure that he keeps his crisis center near the local abortion mill and even moves when they move. He often has prayer services and Masses held in the on-premise chapel. He talks about the advertising that includes, Newspaper and TV ads as well as bus ads. He provides services to poor mothers like counseling, free diapers, and more. To help women decide not to have abortions he addresses the many economic needs that women have that bring them to this act of desperation. Working with sidewalk counselors to provide services that women need right as they are walking into death’s door, helping them improve their situation both in regard to moving away from abusive partners and training for better jobs.

His book is meant to be a one stop resource to start a crisis pregnancy center near an abortion clinic.  It includes:

• Fundraising,
• Getting a place,
• How to work with many different people of different faiths to get a community effort going,
• List of all abortion Clinics in the country so that people know where to put their crisis center.

He intends it to be a legacy for all that he has learned in his long pro-life experience.

http://www.stoppingabortions.info/

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Conferences #161 – Fr. Agnellus M Murphy ( 58min) >>> Play

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Conferences #163 – St. Joseph’s Friary ( 37min) >>> Play

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When you gather all the scraps of your time, you’ll see that you have sufficient time for prayer.

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Conferences #164 – St. Joseph’s Friary ( 43min) >>> Play

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“Suffering is always a grace.” – Canon Francis Joseph Ripley

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Homily #150510b ( 09min) Play – Fr. Joseph McShane on how we need to be pure in our love for both God and neighbor. This purifying is our life’s goal, why God created us and gave us His Son, the Church, the saints and the sacraments for this purpose. On Mother’s Day we should especially love our mothers.
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Mass: Sunday 6th Week of Easter – Sunday – Form: OF
Readings: 
1st: act 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
Resp: psa 98:1, 2-3, 3-4
2nd: 1jo 4:7-10
Gsp: joh 15:9-17

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