Two early morning Saturdays in Pittsburg!!!
I woke up at about 5:30 today and last Saturday to head to the chapel for 6am Mass before we were to travel to Pittsburg to pray outside of the abortion clinic. It was super early so I was very tired, but as we came into pittsburg my stomach started to turn as we drew closer to the place where murder was taking place. I wasn't sure how my emotions were going to be but I had a lot, I mean a lot of kleenex with me just in case.
We parked across the street and when we were walking over to the other side we saw these people in bright yellow shirts!!! They were bright yellow and in big black letters wrote "PRO-CHOICE ESCORT". I couldn't believe it...and when a girl with either her mom/dad/boyfriend/friend came down the street to enter the abortion clinic, they would surround them in their yellow shirts so the sidewalk counselors can't talk to them and tell them about their options. when i saw this for the first time, i cried because i knew then how serious this battle is. it was so different seeing it with my own eyes. A girl (and that's exactly what they are too...little girls) who has life inside of her when she walks by me, later that day, their is no life. and this is not happening in some other town or city... IT IS RIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A WALL FROM ME!!! My heart was hurting and i got down on my knees and prayed as hard as i could for the child AND the mother!!! i pray that maybe someone passing by in a car or on the street that see's us praying is touched or moved, or maybe something has come over them, and they're not sure what it is, but know that life is somehow different and will never be the same.
a sidewalk counselor came up to us towards the end of the morning and told us that there were two turn arounds that they knew of. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT!!! One life that is saved is a victory.
Just a little visual for you of what we do is: we get into about 4 or 5 groups and spread out on all four corners and up and down the sidewalks, and each group gets into a circle, and then we turn the prayers on. Both saturdays now we have prayed for about 3 to 31/2 hours. In this time we usually get: all 4 mysteries of the Rosary, two divine mercy chaplets, stations of the cross, numerous litany's and songs sung (including: Immaculate Mary, Silent Night, Hail Mary, and others), and lots of St. Michael prayers.
I have to go now, but always remember to pray for the soul's of the unborn children and for mothers that their wombs may be a safe place.
I would like to leave you with a prayer that we say at the end of every decade during the Rosary:
JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH WE LOVE YOU, SAVE THE SOULS OF THE UNBORN CHILDREN, ALL SOUL'S IN PURGATORY, ALL PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS, AND ALL MARRAIGES AND FAMILIES.
I woke up at about 5:30 today and last Saturday to head to the chapel for 6am Mass before we were to travel to Pittsburg to pray outside of the abortion clinic. It was super early so I was very tired, but as we came into pittsburg my stomach started to turn as we drew closer to the place where murder was taking place. I wasn't sure how my emotions were going to be but I had a lot, I mean a lot of kleenex with me just in case.
We parked across the street and when we were walking over to the other side we saw these people in bright yellow shirts!!! They were bright yellow and in big black letters wrote "PRO-CHOICE ESCORT". I couldn't believe it...and when a girl with either her mom/dad/boyfriend/friend came down the street to enter the abortion clinic, they would surround them in their yellow shirts so the sidewalk counselors can't talk to them and tell them about their options. when i saw this for the first time, i cried because i knew then how serious this battle is. it was so different seeing it with my own eyes. A girl (and that's exactly what they are too...little girls) who has life inside of her when she walks by me, later that day, their is no life. and this is not happening in some other town or city... IT IS RIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A WALL FROM ME!!! My heart was hurting and i got down on my knees and prayed as hard as i could for the child AND the mother!!! i pray that maybe someone passing by in a car or on the street that see's us praying is touched or moved, or maybe something has come over them, and they're not sure what it is, but know that life is somehow different and will never be the same.
a sidewalk counselor came up to us towards the end of the morning and told us that there were two turn arounds that they knew of. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT!!! One life that is saved is a victory.
Just a little visual for you of what we do is: we get into about 4 or 5 groups and spread out on all four corners and up and down the sidewalks, and each group gets into a circle, and then we turn the prayers on. Both saturdays now we have prayed for about 3 to 31/2 hours. In this time we usually get: all 4 mysteries of the Rosary, two divine mercy chaplets, stations of the cross, numerous litany's and songs sung (including: Immaculate Mary, Silent Night, Hail Mary, and others), and lots of St. Michael prayers.
I have to go now, but always remember to pray for the soul's of the unborn children and for mothers that their wombs may be a safe place.
I would like to leave you with a prayer that we say at the end of every decade during the Rosary:
JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH WE LOVE YOU, SAVE THE SOULS OF THE UNBORN CHILDREN, ALL SOUL'S IN PURGATORY, ALL PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS, AND ALL MARRAIGES AND FAMILIES.
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