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| "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63) Human Life International e-Newsletter Volume 04, Number 32 | Friday, September 25, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| St. Michael, Defender of Children by Joseph Meaney I was struck by a passage in scripture showing St. Michael the Archangel defending children. The Old Testament Book of Daniel relates the following: But at that time Michael shall rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come, such as never was from the time that nations began, even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved every one that shall be found written in the book. - Daniel 12:1In what period of history have children, especially those waiting to be born, faced such tremendous threats to their lives? How is it possible that almost 2 billion children have been killed by surgical abortion worldwide since 1960 and the response of even pro-life people is so muted? Today there are countries like Russia where 52% of pregnancies end in abortion. Evil on this gigantic scale has to have a satanic origin, and St. Michael is the one who first defeated the Devil's plans. Please join HLI in our prayer campaign to St. Michael the Archangel using the powerful prayer first given to the Church by Pope Leo XIII. The response so far has been extraordinary. We have had to print over 2.5 million prayer cards just to keep up with the requests from our website. We made prayer cards in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, but a big surprise was the Arabic-speaking interest for this prayer invoking the intercession of the Prince of the Angels. So far, we have produced over 500,000 of the St. Michael prayer cards in Arabic. On a recent trip to Lebanon I was impressed at how easy it was to distribute thousands of these cards. Arab-Christians are the main recipients, but looking over the prayer I did not see anything that a pious Muslim could not pray with us. Please join us in reciting this prayer and asking the Church to re-institute it after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Many parishes and individuals already follow this traditional practice, but the Holy Father has not mandated the prayer after mass since 1965. Given the unprecedented attacks from the diabolical culture of death since then, HLI believes it is time for the Church to massively storm Heaven again and ask for St. Michael's aid in converting those most deeply involved in the sin of abortion. Sign our petition and order St. Michael prayer cards to help us distribute them ever more widely. We have received the support of priests and bishops from around the world and in Rome for this campaign, but it is very important to mobilize the laity. The sensus fidelium, or belief and practice of faithful Catholics, has since the early centuries guided the Church, including calling for the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mother. Millions of persons invoking St. Michael in our hour of pro-life need will be a powerful spiritual counter-attack against the slaughter of the innocents and the ruin of souls. |
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