"Another Boy"

By Christopher Ziegler

Editor's Note: The fourth undercover video released by the Center for Medical Progress ends with the words "Another Boy!" as Planned Parenthood technicians search in a petrie dish for usable parts of an aborted baby.

Unwanted. Unnamed. Unloved.
Your Mom did not accept you.

Denied. Feared. Forgotten.
Your Dad did not protect you.

Ridiculed. Dissected. Disposed.
They did not see your humanity.

No one gave you a chance at life.

But He who wore a crown of thorns—
He saw your humanity.

He who, like you, died naked
And forsaken—
He gave you a name.

He who was abandoned
And betrayed—
Did not forget you.
He did not leave you.

The Author of Life
Died with you—

Did you enjoy this Piece? Mr Ziegler has written prose pieces on abortion also. Maybe you would enjoy To Be Human or Not to Be: That is the Question About Abortion

Or another poem on abortion: The Choice by Susan Fox 

Father! Draw Me Close

Sermon by Rev. John Paul Shea

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug. 9,, 2015

Saints Peter and Paul Parish, Tucson, AZ

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.” (John 6:44)

In today’s celebration of Mass on this 19th

Sunday of Ordinary time, we again learn of the great gift of the Holy Eucharist in John 6: 41-51. 

You may recall a few weeks ago we heard the passage of the feeding of the 5000.

The following week we heard Our Lord explain the bigger picture of the significance of the miracle of the loaves and fish. Our Lord said to the people, yes, you saw the miracle of the loaves and fish, but, “Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which [I] will give you" (John 6:27). He says to them, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." (John 6:51). 

In today’s Gospel, we hear of the reaction of the Jewish people toward Our Lord’s revelation that He Himself is the living Bread that came down from heaven and that He gives eternal life. 

Sadly, they do not believe Him. They are thinking in an earthly manner, clinging to physical bread only. They grumble and murmur among themselves saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

So Our Lord rebukes the Jews because of their hardness of heart, and He reminds them

"No one can come to Me
unless the Father draw him."

that “no one can come to Me unless the Father draws him.” No one can come to Him unless they open their hearts to His grace.

My brothers and sisters, these words of Our Lord Jesus Christ in today’s Gospel passage were not just given to the Jewish people over 2000 years ago; these words are also being said to each one of us today.

Jesus is the living bread that came down from heaven, and the bread that we receive at Mass is “[His] flesh for the life of the world!" (John 6:51)

And we are reminded today -- through Our Lord’s conversation with the Jews -- that if we truly want the gift of the Eucharist to bear fruit in our lives than we must be open to conversion of heart. We must be drawn by the Holy Spirit to receive Our Lord in faith. 

There are many Catholics in the world today. But how many Catholics are drawn to our Church by the Father? In other words, how many come to Mass with the right intentions?

In fact, statistics tell us that only 30% of today's Catholics believe in the Real Presence. A mere 30% of Catholics today believe that the sacrament of Holy Communion is actually Jesus, the Son of God. Many think, "Oh, sure, it's a symbol of God." But, no! The bread that we receive in Holy Communion is the real thing! Christ instituted the sacrament of Holy Communion in order to remain with us until the end of time (Jn 14:18). He intended us to believe in Him, and, in believing, we are to eat His Body and drink His Blood so that we can have life eternal! If we do not believe, we are not fulfilling His plan. Furthermore, the deeper our trust in the True Presence of Our Lord, the more surely and effectively we will be sanctified in receiving Him! 

My brothers and sisters, to eat the flesh of Jesus means that we strive to have Jesus in the center of our lives. Just as the food we eat becomes part of us when it enters our

bloodstream and organs, Jesus becomes part of us when we eat His living Body -- if we are striving to receive Him worthily by a life lived in purity and holiness.

We come to Mass because the Father has drawn us. We come because we want to receive Our Lord worthily so that we can grow in sanctity and holiness. If we do not want to strive to leave our sins behind and grow in sanctity, than we are not ready to receive Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. Our Lord has said, “Many are called, but few are chosen.” He has also said, “Strive to enter the narrow gate…”

Our Church is the narrow gate. All are welcome into this gate but few are chosen. This is because Our Lord knows that many have closed hearts. Many are unwilling to change their lives. 

God calls us to live in His grace. But we must be willing to live in His grace by offering our bodies, our minds, and our souls to Him. In today’s second reading Saint Paul says, “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption.” 

Each one of us who has been confirmed has been sealed with the Holy Spirit. Yet, we can squash the Holy Spirit that lives in us through grave sin. This is why Our Lord has given His Church the sacrament of confession. Our Lord will never refuse a repentant heart that truly wants to change even though we continue to struggle. But Our Lord won’t live in a heart that refuses to strive to walk in purity and truth.

As we come to receive Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist this day, let us thank God for the gift of Our Lord’s eternal Bread, and let us strive to receive this gift worthily so that we can live in Our Lord’s grace in this life and be raised by Him on the last day.

Did you enjoy this thoughtful sermon? Perhaps you'd also like to read the light-hearted Just Discovered: The Gospel of Symbols! a parody of 3rd and 4th century Gnostic thinking.

Little Known Facts about former U.S. President Barack Obama

Dem POTUS Created 

the Bureau of Vital Fetal Organs 

by Lawrence Fox

Months before President Barack Obama’s sodomy promotion tour in Kenya, the White House established the United States Bureau of Vital Fetal Organs.

Congress did not approve the new bureau. In fact, the majority of Congress was not informed about the matter, and still remains ignorant of its existence.

“We will not punish our daughters with unwanted children and we won’t hurt medical research by restricting their access to intact body parts,” the president was overhead saying at a meeting with Planned Parenthood and Democrat members of Congress. He did not use the word human or little person during this exchange since he was already on record stating, “The question of when human life begins is above my pay grade.”

By working to establish the Bureau of Vital Fetal Organs, the president demonstrated his ethical consistency on the science of abortion. Early in his first term, he issued an executive order, releasing a large unused line of “frozen embryos” for medical research. Embryos’ released from frozen captivity have been carefully injected into mice, rats, and hamsters for the purpose of seeking a cure for AIDS, which unfortunately is still contracted by drug use and sodomy -- activities which the President promotes around the world.  Medical science should not be hampered by religious and cultural biases, the president said while signing the executive order creating the Bureau.

U.S. Democrat Senators and Representatives worked feverishly with the president while he was negotiating with Dr. Bladder – a Planned Parenthood advisor - on the exchange of fetal body parts for profit, it was reported anonymously.

President Obama was mostly concerned with adding to his presidential legacy the creation of one arching mechanism that would stimulate the U.S. economy, decrease unemployment, decrease the human carbon footprint (the snap removal of little feet from fetuses is quick and simple), and address Climate Change.

The President reminded those present in the White House during the negotiations that he promised to lower ocean levels as a result of his presidency. It seemed the expeditious merging and promotion of capitalism, medical science, and de-population under one umbrella would secure a Democrat victory in the next general election.

Dr. Bladder advised the President that in the past federal laws protected millions of women in America with access to safe, clean, sanitized, painless, and private abortions. But now by allowing cadaverous witchdoctors at Planned

Cadaverous Witch Doctors
from Planned Parenthood

Parenthood to alter and prolong the abortion procedure (i.e. making them less safe and more painful), but allowing more fresh (in fact alive) intact fetal body mass  be available for a profit with each abortion.

To do this successfully, the amount of Saline,  D&C and Vacuum procedures would have to be reduced. Highly cruel methods of infant execution -- as used during a partial birth abortion -- would need to be used more often.   It was anonymously reported that the option was proposed of not aborting the fetus, but delivering it whole and alive and then immediately putting it in deep freeze like a salmon netted and yanked out of the earth’s liquid uterus.

Dr. Bladder advised the President that the plan had one drawback. There existed a shortage of specialized and intoxicated abortionists capable of performing the task without reservation. The President was reminded that the Lutheran Deacon and partial birth abortionist George Tiller was recently terminated at the OK Corral and Kermit the Frog Gosnell was imprisoned because Attorney General Eric Holder could not protect him. Kermit ran his little house of horrors for years within property owned by Eric Holder’s wife.  

It was anonymously reported that the President retorted, “We can certainly recruit from among ISIS adherents since they have no difficulty with slicing heads, arms and legs off of non-Muslim children. We have done our best to keep ISIS in business only pretending to give a damn. Because of our open borders policy, we have ready access to members of ISIS, who have snuck into the country. ”

Dr. Bladder told the President that there was a very small risk of the un-educated American population finally learning that abortions are not performed on blobs of tissue or

undifferentiated cells, but instead on tiny human fetuses with developing and intact body parts including: heads, legs, arms, fingers, eyes, hearts, kidneys and livers. If that information got out, there would be some indignation among Republicans who would wage another war on women and seek to stop the flow of millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government to Planned Parenthood.  

It was reported anonymously that President Barack Hussein Obama considered the matter for about ten seconds and reasoned, “If the altered abortion procedures advance medical science and promote my legacy, then this Administration will continue to shield the cadaverous witchdoctors of Planned Parenthood.”

The president then ended the meeting with Democrat members of Congress including: Representatives Lipton Soup and Pepsi, Senators Bentover, Rheem, and Rover. The meeting had netted all the talking points necessary in case things went sour.  

Dr. Bladder, the President and the members of Congress retired for lunch together. Munching on their salads, sipping wine, they discussed casually the value of vital fetal organs and the color of the Lamborghinis they would soon receive from Planned Parenthood. 

P.S. They didn’t know there was a video recording.

Did you enjoy this spoof? Lawrence has written others. FOR THE OBAMA LADY: New Product from Smoke & Mirrors!