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Catholic Priest Delivers Pro-Life Homily - Some Parishioners Walk Out
San Diego News Notes ^ | December 2003

Posted on 12/27/2003 6:55:15 AM PST by NYer

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To: NYer
...and STAY out!
61 posted on 12/30/2003 10:23:50 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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To: NYer

Liberal Catholics do not want to hear the truth


62 posted on 12/27/2004 6:02:32 PM PST by Coleus (Keep Christ in Christmas, Christmas is part of our Western Civilization and is a US Holiday for ALL)
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To: MHGinTN; Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; ...
Sing A Little Louder (Christians and the American Holocaust)

http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literature_909sl.asp

The following story entitled "Sing A Little Louder", told by an old weeping "Christian" man, holds a very important message for us today. May its words ring loud and clear, reminding all Christians everywhere the consequences of our [physical and spiritual] uninvolvement. May our L-rd G-d Almighty Who is Israel's Savior, Redeemer, and King, forgive us our sins, and deliver us from that cursed spirit of indifference. May the following poem entitled "The Passenger" also help us to clearly see this truth

"SING A LITTLE LOUDER"
After a speech, Pro-Life activist Penny Lea was approached by an old man. Weeping, he told her the following story:

I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. I attended Church since I was a small boy. We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but like most people today in this country, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it? "A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from the distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those cars! "Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns. By the time the train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out for help. G-d forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did nothing to intervene."

"Their screams tormented us . . . If some of their screams reached our ears we'd just sing a little louder."

Now, so many years later, I see it happening all over again in America. God forgive you as Americans for you have blocked out the screams of millions of your own children. The holocaust is here. The response is the same as it was in my country - SILENCE!"

Have you ever wondered HOW people could have stood by and let the holocaust just happen? Do you wonder why the Christians in this story chose to just sing their praise to God a little louder to drown out the victim's cries?

The old man's story is in the past. The past cannot be changed. It is easy to think we would act differently now. But the old man's last words are haunting "It's happening all over again in America with abortion. The Holocaust is here."

As American Christians, we have become so comfortable in our lovely buildings and padded pews. We have beautiful fellowship halls for our many banquets. We have the latest sound equipment for our praise and worship. We have computers to keep our records. We gather together each week and shut ourselves inside our buildings. We raise our voices as loud as we can, all in the name of God.

And yet, in the heavenly realm, our voices raised in praise are drowned out by screams of agony from millions of babies who are being executed before they are born. We can't see them. We can't hear them. But it is happening right now!

Babies are being aborted UP UNTIL THE DAY OF BIRTH in this country. Their organs and brains are "harvested" for use in medical experimentation. In Wichita, Kansas, the smoke stack from the furnace of Dr. Tiller's abortion clinic belches out black smoke and the sickening smell of burning flesh. These are the bodies of 7th, 8th and 9th month old babies being "disposed of".

If the Christians in the old man's church had done something, they would have probably been killed. That is not the case with us. We don't even have that as an excuse for our silence.

Years from now will you be like that old man trying to explain your apathy as millions were led away to slaughter in abortion clinics? Or will you raise your voice and cry out in protest for those who have no voice! The choice is YOURS!

THE PASSENGER Penny Lea

"I found myself in anger, I cried out in despair. I prayed, "L-rd let them hear me! Let just one person care!" I raised my voice to heaven as the train kept moving on, as we passed behind the church yard! I could hear the worship songs. I cried out all the louder to the Christians there inside, but they raised the chorus louder not hearing me outside. I knew they heard the whistle and the clacking of the tracks. They knew that I was going to die and still they turned their backs. I said, "Father in heaven how can your people be so very hard of hearing to the cry of one like me? I shouted, "Please have mercy! Just a prayer before I die!" But they sang a little louder to the Holy One on High. They raised their hands to Heaven but the blood was dripping down. The blood of all the innocent their voices tried to drown. They have devotions daily, they function in My Name, and they never even realized it was I upon that train.

FACTS ABOUT ABORTION

Fact: In the United States it is legal to abort a baby up until the day of birth.

Fact: In the D&X procedure babies are "partially aborted" so the head is still in the cervix but the body is out. While in this position the live baby is still considered an "abortion" therefore a non-person. The live baby's brains are sucked out and the other organs are harvested and sold to "researchers". The baby receives no anesthesia and is alive until the procedure kills him.

Fact: Every day in America about 4,400 babies die painful deaths by dismemberment, chemical poisoning, lethal injections into the heart, being torn limb from limb and now, being partially delivered and having their brains sucked out and their organs sold.

Fact: Abortion has two victims - the baby and the mother. Many women who have abortions suffer both physically and mentally. Depression, anxiety, grief, infection, sterility and even death are not uncommon as a result of the abortion.

Fact: Only 1% of abortions are performed as a result of rape or incest. Most abortions are done as a form of birth control because the baby is "inconvenient", "too expensive", or a "burden".

END

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I (Freeper CpForLife.org) am a cradle Catholic and for most of my life I didn't do a single thing to help stop abortion/child murder. I have tried to make up for that in the last several years. I KNOW I can do more.

Prayer is very important - but action MUST accompany prayer. (Unless physically unable)

There are some 175-200 MILLION "Christians" in America. If we each did 1-hour of pro-life a month, just sixty damn minuets a month, we would end "legalized" abortion/child murder in no time--and change the world in the process.

I firmly believe that the solution to ending the culture of death does not realistically lie with changing the minds of pro-abortion adults; it lies with preserving the 99+ % of children that are naturally pro-life on their first day of school.

Comprehensive sanctity of life before birth education is THE MISSING KEY OF THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT

63 posted on 12/27/2004 11:17:13 PM PST by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of The Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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26% indicated only somewhat or not very important.

Back in 2000 I asked my priest who he was voting for and he answered "GORE" and I said father Gore is PRO-Choice and his reply, "....we have to look at all the issues not just one".

That was the last day I attended his church.

64 posted on 12/28/2004 6:46:12 AM PST by SweetCaroline (Whenever the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future -REV 20:10)
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A big bump for this priest, Father Walter J. Quinn!!!!

May God bless him abundantly!


65 posted on 12/28/2004 8:06:08 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: cpforlife.org
December 28 - Feast of the Holy Innocents
 
Ending the Holocaust of the Innocents

David Warren: The Innocents


66 posted on 12/28/2004 8:16:28 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: NYer
Maybe there will be MORE pro-life sermons today!

Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 12-28-04, Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs

December 28 - Feast of the Holy Innocents

67 posted on 12/28/2004 8:22:04 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Does he want them to lose their immortal souls?

Good question. However, if a priest no longer believes in hell, believes in universal salvation, or puts forth the notion that "hell may be empty" as I have heard discussed on FR by those who say that they are Catholic, what would he possibly be saving these souls from?

All of these false notions about the nonexistence of hell turns priests into glorified social workers and psychologists without the pay and benefits. If you do not believe in the four last things, just like a humane secular atheist, social justice becomes all important.

68 posted on 12/28/2004 8:41:18 AM PST by murphE ("I ain't no physicist, but I know what matters." - Popeye)
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To: NYer

Bravo! I give good Father Quinn a standing ovation, as well. I am ecstatic that he sad all he said. It needs to be said far, far more often!!!!!!!!!!!!


69 posted on 12/28/2004 8:48:55 AM PST by TOUGH STOUGH
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To: cpforlife.org

cpforlife.org,Here's a bump-Did not read original post.


70 posted on 12/28/2004 8:25:09 PM PST by fatima (Baby Sarah better,Ed better,thank you for the prayers.)
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I work with Father QUINN,work with the best and forget about the rest,fatima


71 posted on 12/28/2004 8:44:24 PM PST by fatima (Baby Sarah better,Ed better,thank you for the prayers.)
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To: DaveTesla

Ping


72 posted on 12/29/2004 2:51:56 PM PST by bear11
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To: MVV

March For Life has anywhere from 250,000 to 350,000 marchers and not one word about it in the MSM.


73 posted on 12/29/2004 6:17:20 PM PST by mickie
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To: NYer

bttt


74 posted on 01/31/2011 9:03:39 AM PST by Coleus (Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
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