Sadly, we would probably have to spend 15 minutes alone with the clergyman to explain Terri's situation. Most ministers are totally unaware of her fight, as there has been a news blackout among the MSM.
I just quickly told my priest that they wanted to remove FL Terri Schiavo's feeding tube for the third time. For a second I thought I could see puzzlement on his face, but my comment refreshed his memory. It's worth a try & it worked for me. :)
If your clergyman doesn't know about it, tell him you will send him some info. in the mail.
You can quickly copy a nutshell version from one of the posts, print it, and send it to him.
Here's my nutshell version:
Terri Schiavo was in a marriage on the rocks, and had bruises and would explain them away, by telling her family that she and her husband were just fooling around.
At 28 years of age Terri collapsed from mysterious circumstances.
Michael and FL courts want to remove Terri's feeding tube for the third time. Ironically Terri can swallow and could swallow better with therapy. However, Michael won't allow any kind of therapy for Terri. One time when they took away Terri's tube, Terri's brother & sister fed her soft food with a spoon, but were banned from seeing Terri for feeding Terri by Michael. And FL Judge Greer said: "I don't want anyone feeding that girl."
A nurse testified that she fed Terri jello which she immensely enjoyed.
Terri can say a few words, and tries to talk, but needs therapy, to talk better. Again, Michael won't allow therapy.
For more info., see Terrisfight.org.
Terri Schiavo wants to live
Family reveals secret therapy sessions held for brain-disabled woman scheduled to die
Posted: October 14, 2003
By Sarah Foster
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Terri Schindler-Schiavo does not want to die. She would like to go home. And she tried to convey this to her father in no uncertain terms by sitting bolt upright and trying to get out of her chair when told she might be killed, her family has revealed.
The stunning news was released at noon Eastern today by Terri's father, Robert Schindler, at the 'round-the-clock vigil outside the Woodside Hospice facility in Pinellas Park, Fla., where his daughter's court-ordered death by starvation is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern. At that time, her husband and legal guardian Michael Schiavo is scheduled to give the order to disconnect the 39-year-old brain-disabled woman's feeding tube that has provided her with sustenance for the past 13 years.
In an interview a few hours earlier, Schindler described the incident to WorldNetDaily. He said he was holding a cell phone to Terri's ear as she listened intently to the speaker, propped in her jerry-chair at about a 30-degree angle. Suddenly she sat up straight and tried to get out of her chair, despite her weak legs and muscles that were slack from lack of exercise.
His daughter's response stunned Schindler, who grabbed the phone and asked, "My God, what did you tell her?"
The speaker said he had warned, "If you don't get up and get out of there, you're going to die there."
"He was ecstatic when I told him what Terri had tried to do," Schindler said.
(Excerpt)
Here's a really great summary about Terri by a nurse who wrote to the Holy Father. Thankfully, the Holy Father came through, though I don't know if he saw this specific letter.
But for a brief summary, here's the letter:
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3816.html