Praying at the Abortion Mills

Praying at the Abortion Mills
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A few of us from the Cypress Knights of Columbus No. 8599 have been praying at the abortion sites for 15 years or longer. Do you remember the one a few blocks from St. Ireneaus Church? It closed down in 2001 and did not relocate.

Well the one we focus on today is located at 2777 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach. Maybe you may want to join us. [Tom, Ray, George, Bob, Bill, Lewis, Innan, Henry, Leroy (deceased), and Don] Only two are not members of our Council.

We are usually there on Wednesdays and Fridays of each week from about 9:05 to 9:55 A.M. We face the building entrance. The sun is behind you and so is the traffic, and also the Long Beach Memorial Hospital. During this time we are able to pray at least 3 of 4 Mysteries of the Rosary. They are the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries. You can pray on your own or with someone else. It will be a positive experience for you.

One of the counselors, Cecilia is from Holy Innocents Church in Long Beach. She keeps in contact with the 35 or more mothers who have changed their minds since the beginning of the year.

I usually have posted on my own, some educational signs like “Abortion Hurts Women” and “The Inalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” The mothers do change their minds.

In closing, I am reminded of the commentary of Congressman Henry Hyde, a U.S. Catholic a most distinguished layman. His Hyde Amendment in 1976 banned federal public spending on abortions. He died in 2007. On the issue of abortion he has a poignant comment:

“When the time comes as it surely will, when we face the awesome moment, the final judgment. I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God – a terror will rip through your soul like nothing you can imagine.

“But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there will be chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world – and they will plead for everyone who has been is this movement. They will say to God, ‘Spare him because he loved us.’”

George H. Kubeck: We go after the 8 AM Mass from St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church in Hawaiian Gardens, Ca.