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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

CORPUS CHRISTI

(The Eucharist is the re-presentation of Christ’s Passion on the Cross in an un-bloody manner.  Because God is outside time, and time is a creature of God, I like to tell people the Consecration is a time machine that returns you to the original moment of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. To witness daily His ascent at the intersection of time and eternity is to go to daily Mass.)

by Susan Fox

“Lord, here are two swords,”
we cried, as youth will cry
in pity and in ignorance;
Peter draws his sword at the arrest of Jesus

But we divided,
you, weeping with intellectual fervor
for the very stones He tread upon;

And I
in smiling sorrow
dancing to my death
at a bright intersection.

Still
We are guilty of the resurrection:
we have eaten at the wrong table,
letting the spiteful words spill like cancer.

And once we both fell asleep
under the ghastly stare of an empty sky
leaving the Man alone to die.

“Rescue the Corpse,” you said,
but the dawn made us clumsy;
the blind hush of His ascent
drove us back from the murdered tomb.

And now
we lay the crusade aside:
you
weeping with intellectual fervor
and I
in smiling sorrow
witness daily His ascent
at the intersection

of time and eternity.


Did you enjoy this poem? Read another by the same author: THE BELOVED

Thursday, January 23, 2014

VICTORY! The Pro-Life Army of God Marches On

“I have seen the wicked triumphant, towering like a cedar of Lebanon. I passed by again; he was gone. I searched; he was nowhere to be found.” (Psalm 37)

by Susan Fox


I declare victory!

Hundreds of thousands of people marched for life in Washington, D.C., braving cold temperatures on the 41st anniversary of the infamous Roe v Wade, which removed all legal protections for unborn Americans on Jan. 22, 1973.

But in the hidden bowels of the Twitter-verse, people unleashed hundreds of thousands of tweets with the clear message,  “This is why we march and pray -- to end abortion!”


“Unleash the storm! For the love of Christ urges us on!” tweeted Esmeralda Kiczek. She and her husband Dr. Brian Kiczek organized the largest number of pro-life tweets on Jan. 22 with the hashtag #PraytoEndAbortion. You can sign up to join her in praying the Rosary daily to end abortion, contraception and euthanasia at The End of Abortion Movement 

Since 1973, almost 57 million Americans have been swallowed up in a holocaust far greater than any led by the recent movements of atheistic Communism. Only 2.5 million killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, 1975-79. Only 20 million murdered, including 6 million Jews, in the Nazi holocaust 1933-1945.

But in America, which has been blessed with greater prosperity and freedom than any other nation on earth, almost 57 million American children have suffered a painful death exiting the womb. In New York City itself, it was just reported more black children are killed in the womb than are born alive. To be born alive in the African American community is an incredible miracle thanks to the eugenics work of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who put her clinics in black, not poor, neighborhoods, and then recruited the black minister to promote contraception.  "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said. Since the time of King Herod the line between good and evil has never been so clear. 

Over 309,000 tweets containing pro-life messages were sent since Dec. 23 with more than half occurring on Jan 22, the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn, according to Topsy.com.

The same number of tweets for pro-death hashtags was 21,196 during the same period of time. A hashtag is a phrase prefixed with the symbol # that appears in a tweet.

The results for all the pro-life hashtags were as follows, Dec. 23 to Jan.22 as of 10:30 p.m. MT. Number of tweets containing each hashtag:
#PraytoEndAbortion  82,587
#prolife 77,715
#marchforlife 54,340
#whywemarch 37,569
#abortion 37,562 
#roevwade 7,316
#Mass4life 6,595
#March4life 5,617
I included #abortion and #roevwade in the pro-life category because their tweets were simply pro-life.

On the other side:
#prochoice 18,589
#Roe 2,607
Another hashtag #Roe41 has 11,439 tweets this morning (Jan. 23)  at 6:45 a.m. MT and the content was mixed between pro-life and pro-death. 
(Source: Topsy.com)

Mary’s unborn Son, Jesus Christ, was clapping His little hands in the womb.  The two of them celebrated with a rousing square dance, in which the head of the snake was thoroughly stomped. (Gen 3:15)

U.S. President Barack Obama also celebrated, but for an entirely different reason. He celebrated the death of almost 57 million Americans as an “opportunity to fulfill dreams.”  But I guarantee that this American president will disappear in the bowels of history unless he is remembered ignominiously as another King Herod. 

At the time of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod ordered the murder of all boys age two and younger in that town. He recognized the Messiah, a son of David, had a legitimate and greater claim to Herod's own throne, so he hoped to kill Him of whom the Magi spoke. Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she refused to be comforted because they were no more.” (Matt 2:17-18) The Word made flesh is born in Bethlehem, and the first attempt on His life is made when He is still an infant. 

“Today the pro-life movements came together on Twitter to proclaim the value of life.  #MarchforLife, #Mass4Life, #WhyWeMarch, and #PraytoEndAbortion all trended throughout the Day giving a tremendous witness to the pro-life generation,” Esmeralda Kiczek said.

The fact that so many different hash tags were used by the pro-life movement meant that none trended very highly on Twitter in the United States. #MarchforLife was number one for a while in the middle of the day, and then disappeared. #PraytoEndAbortion remained steady at #7, and then rose briefly to #4.

Kiczak said that this #PraytoEndAbortion Twitterstorm was assisted by the American Refugee @mericanrefugee, who is involved in the New Evangelization of the Catholic Church. He was actually looking for a place to do pro-life work on Twitter when he saw the #PraytoEndAbortion hashtag trending on Twitter. 

Most of his tweets were very sober, but some were incredibly entertaining for my whole family and myself. One tweeter, asking why he wouldn’t support abortion in certain cases, said, “What about women finding out their child is deeply disabled and that his life will be a nightmare?” Without missing a beat, American Refugee responded, “Hitler agreed with you.”

She thought that argument was ridiculous, so then she used a bad word, and asked, “What do you have to say about people getting raped and having to bear the child of a monster?” And again without missing a beat, he linked to "Raped, Pregnant & Mentally Ill, I Chose Life Against Doctor's Advice." It was a very happy story, although the mother had a difficult time because she had to go off her bi-polar meds while she was pregnant. 
ObamaCare Girl
You won’t want to miss hearing about the American Refugee’s refugee assistant, the ObamaCare Website Girl, who tells the story of how she was abused and used by Obama, and how she finally found peace in the American Refugee’s hidden compound. "I am The ObamaCare Website Girl; This is My Story." Watch the movie on that linked page, “Hitler finds out ObamaCare Girl is working with American Refugees.” It’s extremely, extremely  funny. 
American Refugee brought in some conservative heavy hitters to help with the twitter storm on Wednesday: Patriot Journalist Network #PJNET#WAAR and Mark Prasek @DataGenesis, according to Mrs. Kiczek.

The Kiczeks organized a successful Twitter Storm  on Dec. 12-13, 2013, with pro-life tweets totaling 180,000. They trended #1 in the United States and #5 in the world. The Kiczeks signed up 207 more people to pray the Rosary daily after that storm. In one year, that little group of people will pray about 75,000 Rosaries to end abortion, contraception, and euthanasia. I’m happy to be one of them.

“As our nation marks the anniversary of the tragic Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, 56 million abortions have been performed in America. Babies are our future. God has given a mission to every human being, but now we will never know what were the gifts that these precious children had for us. It is time to end abortion. We must pray and work very hard because human lives are at stake,” Mrs. Kiczek said.

Pope Francis tweeted in solidarity with pro-lifers.  He said, "I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable."

The pro-life army of God keeps marching, praying, tweeting and sacrificing to end the murder of the innocents. Rachel is weeping for her children. She cannot be consoled because they are no more. 
 This is excellent: 

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The Choice

(On April 17, 1979, six years after Roe v Wade, a choice is made that never would have been possible before 1973 in the United States of America.)

by Susan Fox

This is the hoarfrosted moment – bare and sinister;
it chokes a freckled young woman,
dark-haired and beautiful with child.

The day is ugly with torment
and a certain disposable mentality
seeps through the cracks of the sidewalk,
recalling days without nights.


The air is blue gray
as she pulls another drag of happiness,
walking with a bitter finality
to a certain and undisclosed destination.

Her mother is ashamed.
She would whitewash the moment,
send her to a man in a white coat.
The knife is sharp and indifferent.

And the roommate?
She would send the moment away,
put it on a speeding train to infinity,
never say the one word that should be spoken:
“Stop.”
Gnawing on the Bone

We are all such cowards;
unwilling to touch the guilt –
an ugly thing gnawing on our bones.

And the boy?
Well, he is concerned
with economics
and “social responsibility.”

The cash register rings loudly
in the icy silence
while his son is delivered  
into a pool of blood.




Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, the Catholic Church recognizes a Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children.