Tribulation Times
(Jer 1:4-5) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.
HEADLINE: Abortion Key Issue For Catholic Man Backing McCain
Don Wheatley is standing outside an abortion clinic in Hartford, his rosary beads trailing through his 73-year-old fingers, talking about why he supports John McCain for president.
Part of the reason, he says, is the presence of pro-life candidate Sarah Palin on the ticket. Wheatley is Catholic, and avidly pro-life; he comes out here to pray for an end to abortion every week, he says.
But it's more complicated than that, of course. There's also his late wife, Lana Sue.
Wheatley begins to talk about Lana Sue, and his focus seems to drift away slowly, until his voice falters, and then stops.
Lana Sue died two years ago of cancer, Wheatley says, in their 37th year of marriage. During their first year of marriage — when he was only 34 — Lana Sue got pregnant.
"We married in September. She was pregnant in November. She never looked so good. She was beautiful the whole time she was pregnant, like a spring flower," he says.
The baby was due in August, and Lana Sue went to St. Francis to deliver. Don was in the waiting room when the doctor came out, covered in blood, to tell him their son was dead, an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. And because Lana Sue's uterus had ruptured, the doctor had performed an emergency hysterectomy.
"She named him David Jonathan. I asked her, and she said she looked up the names and together they meant 'beloved gift of God,'" Wheatley says.
The years passed, and Don became more and more active in his Manchester church and the pro-life movement, with Lana Sue's encouragement.
Today, he contemplates the candidates and, in the midst of an economic crisis, war and a host of other serious problems, the choice is abundantly clear.
"All of the issues that are before us in the election are important, but they are not all of equal value," Wheatley says. "The right to life is the most fundamental right a person has. All other rights are nullified if that right is taken away from them. I don't like anything about Obama. His stand on life issues is awful."
CAL THOMAS: Catholics and abortion (again)
EDITORIAL: Catholic abortion policy remains unchangeable
FR. PAVONE: The Bible's Teaching Against Abortion
Young Adult Catholic Organization: Sacrifice and Prayer for Election of Pro-Life Candidates
Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/october.asp?version=63
October 10, 2008(Jer 1:4-5) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.
HEADLINE: Abortion Key Issue For Catholic Man Backing McCain
Don Wheatley is standing outside an abortion clinic in Hartford, his rosary beads trailing through his 73-year-old fingers, talking about why he supports John McCain for president.
Part of the reason, he says, is the presence of pro-life candidate Sarah Palin on the ticket. Wheatley is Catholic, and avidly pro-life; he comes out here to pray for an end to abortion every week, he says.
But it's more complicated than that, of course. There's also his late wife, Lana Sue.
Wheatley begins to talk about Lana Sue, and his focus seems to drift away slowly, until his voice falters, and then stops.
Lana Sue died two years ago of cancer, Wheatley says, in their 37th year of marriage. During their first year of marriage — when he was only 34 — Lana Sue got pregnant.
"We married in September. She was pregnant in November. She never looked so good. She was beautiful the whole time she was pregnant, like a spring flower," he says.
The baby was due in August, and Lana Sue went to St. Francis to deliver. Don was in the waiting room when the doctor came out, covered in blood, to tell him their son was dead, an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. And because Lana Sue's uterus had ruptured, the doctor had performed an emergency hysterectomy.
"She named him David Jonathan. I asked her, and she said she looked up the names and together they meant 'beloved gift of God,'" Wheatley says.
The years passed, and Don became more and more active in his Manchester church and the pro-life movement, with Lana Sue's encouragement.
Today, he contemplates the candidates and, in the midst of an economic crisis, war and a host of other serious problems, the choice is abundantly clear.
"All of the issues that are before us in the election are important, but they are not all of equal value," Wheatley says. "The right to life is the most fundamental right a person has. All other rights are nullified if that right is taken away from them. I don't like anything about Obama. His stand on life issues is awful."
CAL THOMAS: Catholics and abortion (again)
EDITORIAL: Catholic abortion policy remains unchangeable
FR. PAVONE: The Bible's Teaching Against Abortion
Young Adult Catholic Organization: Sacrifice and Prayer for Election of Pro-Life Candidates
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 8- "On Freedom from Anger and on Meekness"
14. If the Holy Spirit is peace of soul, as He is said to be an as He is in reality, and if anger is disturbance of heart, as it actually is and as it is said to be, then nothing so prevents His presence in us as anger.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
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