Day 7 - Fathers Have No Say

Fathers Have No Say

National Campaign Daily Intention

May we have a heart and a zeal to save the poor and release the oppressed.

Table of Contents

• National Campaign Daily Intention
• National Campaign News
  • Fathers Have No Say When it Comes to their Unborn Children
  • EWTN NETWORK TO AIR 40 DAYS FOR LIFE SPECIAL TONIGHT!
• Local Campaign News
  • Impressions of the Sidewalk from Three Prayer Volunteers
  • Time to Head to the Sidewalk for an Hour
  • Adopt A Day at the Sidewalk
  • Coming Events
  • Reno CPC Benefit Event, Oct 1st, 6 – 9 pm
  • First Saturday Rosary, Oct 3rd, 9:00 am
  • Respect Life Mass – Oct 4th, 9:30 am
  • Life Chain Sunday – Oct 4th, 2 – 3:30 pm
  • Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here
• 40 Days through Scripture
  • Day 7: Mark 7 – 6
• National News
  • Wash. College Agrees to End Discrimination against Pro-Life Students
• Video Vignette
  • Can’t Handle the Truth, Only One Choice for Pro-Choice
• Get Involved
  • Join a Webcast to Learn More about Health Care Reform
  • Campaign Materials
• Two Hearts Catholic Books & Gifts to Carry 40 Days for Life Items
• Free 40 Days for Life Items - Bumper Sticker, Bracelet & More

National Campaign Daily Intention

May we have a heart and a zeal to save the poor and release the oppressed.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed. —Luke 4:1819

This passage is a very familiar one. It has been preached on many occasions, even made popular in books and songs. Though the quote is about Jesus, all Christians take this commission seriously as a directive on how to reach the world with the gospel. We, like our Savior, are to bring the good news to the poor, the broken hearted, those in captivity, those who cannot see, and the oppressed. The commission given to us in this passage is clearly a charge to care for those for whom God cares the most. I wonder though, whom do we look for to be touched by the Holy Spirit as we go out into the world? Who are the poor, if not those unborn children who have been abandoned by their parents before they ever leave the womb? Who are the broken hearted, if not those unborn children whose only example of love is having their mother take them to an abortion clinic to be destroyed, or the mother of a child who has been deceived by everyone around her into believing that what she is doing is best for her and her child? Who are the captives, if not those unborn children who are bound over to death by the “choice” of abortion? Who is more blind than an unborn child in the darkness of a womb that has become a waiting room for their death? And who is more oppressed than those unborn children whose oppression has been legitimized by their government, their church and even their family and loved ones.

Fr. Terry Gensemer
National Director
Charismatic Episcopal Church for Life

National Campaign News

Fathers Have No Say When it Comes to their Unborn Children

People participating in the 40 Days for Life vigil watched as a young man who appeared to be in tears walked into Planned Parenthood with his girlfriend and her mother. When they left some time later, he was most certainly crying—and obviously quite upset.

I'll let one of the prayer vigil participants pick up the story...

I watched him head down the street, alternating between wiping the tears from his face and punching the buildings in anger and frustration as he passed them. Eventually he headed back toward the parking lot. As he approached, I went to him first. All I could think to say was that I was so very sorry for his loss. He began to cry again. Then a truck pulled up leaving the parking lot with his girlfriend and her mother inside. The girl's mother yelled at him to get in and cursed him as he opened the door. He had one foot inside, then stepped back out and closed the door. As she drove away he promptly sat down on the curb and cried like a baby. Three of us sat down beside him -- all men -- and cried with him.

Eventually, he began to talk. He was probably in his very early twenties. He told us that his girlfriend did not want to keep the child because she feared they would not be able to provide for him. He asked her how she could destroy a life based on a hunch. He told her this child had a heartbeat and a soul and deserved to live. He even tried to convince her to, at the very least, put the child up for adoption. I was struck by the fact that this young man knew all this simply because his heart told him it was true. He was wise well beyond his years and he was hurting terribly. I was struck by the clear reality that fathers have so little to do with whether their own children live or die. I also couldn't help but notice that despite the high volume of Planned Parenthood volunteers around, none of them approached him. Before I left him, he stood up to hug me. All I could tell him was what I truly believed -- that today, his child knows that his/her father fought for it. That to his child, he is a hero and that someday he would know that also.

Please pray for this young man and others like him. The tragedy of abortion is real and happening everyday. No one knows that better than he. I sincerely hope this young man comes to embrace the exceptional advice he was given; but that will most certainly take time. I cannot even begin to imagine the anguish.

This is a first-person account of what abortion does to fathers. Who knows how many others have walked in his shoes, as there are more than a million abortions every year -- and more than 50 million since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that opened the floodgates to abortion on demand.

Let's pray even harder!

EWTN NETWORK TO AIR 40 DAYS FOR LIFE SPECIAL TONIGHT!

The second installment of the Being Human television series, hosted by 40 Days for Life campaign director Shawn Carney, airs on the EWTN network at 6:30 PM Eastern TODAY!

EWTN is on many cable and satellite systems, so please look for this outstanding account of 40 Days for Life, filmed by an Emmy-award-winning director.

• WHAT: "Being Human: 40 Days for Life"
• DATE: TONIGHT! Tuesday, September 29
• TIME: 6:30 PM Eastern (3:30 PM Pacific)
• WHERE: Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) -- available in most markets

Watch a short preview online at: http://www.beinghumanshow.com

Don't have cable or don't get EWTN? You can watch the 30-minute documentary online at the start time by visiting http://www.ewtn.com and then selecting "Television" > "Live TV - English" from the navigation menu at the top of the page.

Spread the word to all your friends, co-workers, family members, and fellow believers about this exciting show!

Local Campaign News

Impressions of the Sidewalk from Three Prayer Volunteers

Today the sidewalk was covered in prayer by the St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral parish, as coordinated by Charles, who spent the entire day there, with clipboard in hand. Throughout the day there were on average 3 people standing to Pray to End Abortion. Charles was impressed most by the fellowship of the believers who stepped out of their comfort zone to be at the sidewalk to pray. Because the abortion site is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, there were no saves to report, but neither were there any killings, so it has been a good day for the unborn babies of Reno.

Katie, who has taken on the responsibility of filling the calendar on Mondays through-out the campaign, reported that she observed people at the sidewalk from Lucy who is only 3 years old, to several seniors, who came to pray. She was also impressed that this is something where we can leave aside our denominational, church affiliation differences as we come together to Pray to End Abortion. She knows this to be true for having stood in prayer with James who attends the Reno Christian Fellowship, while she attends St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.

Mary, who helped Charles fill the schedule today, reported that while she was praying with Pam & Joe a young man drove up, parked his car and came over to them, asking what they were doing. When they explained that they were there to Pray to End Abortion, he told them that he simply disagreed with what they were doing, and that he felt it wasn’t right for them to stand there in judgment of the women to come to the abortion site. “Certainly, you can’t know what her situation is, what if she’s been raped?” he reasoned. “So, should the innocent child have to pay with death for the crime of his father”, they posited back to him? The conversation continued on in a cordial manner and in the end it’s uncertain if he was convinced, but at least he was given the opportunity to consider that perhaps his relativistic values don’t hold up to close scrutiny. Certainly he hasn’t previously had the opportunity to discuss the subject with someone who can clearly and honestly defend the position that life is worth protecting from the moment of conception. And if nothing else, it’s good that this young man has gone away thinking. Who knows where the Lord will take this encounter.

All are welcome, we all have the power of prayer at our disposal, no one is too young or too old to pray to the Almighty, All Loving, All Merciful God. For we know that this effort will only be won when we surrender it to God, who can accomplish all things.

Send your impressions of your time at the sidewalk to renotahoe@40DaysforLife.com.

Time to Head to the Sidewalk for an Hour

Today the sidewalk needs your prayers. No, not that other person reading this across town, you. If you absolutely can’t make it due to distance or other commitments, please cover the sidewalk, the abortion site, the abortionist, the women who are contemplating an abortion later this week, cover them all with your prayers. Cover the volunteers involved in this effort, those who help in prayer, those who are taking an active role in coordinating the effort, the families of all who are involved in this effort. Please cover them all with your prayer. If you can make it to the sidewalk, please register via our website, and be certain to sign a Statement of Peace before you go out! To register for the hours when you’ll be at the sidewalk, go to: http://www.vigilcalendar.com/renotahoe I thank you in advance for your support.

Adopt A Day at the Sidewalk

Please help us to efficiently cover the sidewalk in prayer! If I told you that by giving a few days of your time that you could cure a friend of deadly cancer, would you? If I told you that by skipping your plans for the weekend, you could give someone life, would you? I believe that everyone reading this would answer with a resounding yes! Who among us wouldn’t jump at the chance to save a loved one? I tell you, that our prayers are every bit as powerful as just that, they are saving lives. If you put in the time to arrange an Adopt a Day for your church, you can play a role in seeing an end to abortion in our community. The number of lives that will be spared as a result could be countless. Isn’t this worth the inconvenience of rearranging a few things on your calendar of events?

Please approach your pastor and ask to make announcements at church this weekend, inviting others to come and Pray to End Abortion. For further support on how to coordinate adopting a day, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/AdoptaDay or to get the procedure in PDF format, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/RenoTahoe/AdoptaDay.pdf.

Coming Events

Reno CPC Benefit Event, Oct 1st, 6-9 pm

The Crisis Pregnancy Center cordially invites you to an evening of fun & fellowship Thursday, October 1, 2009. Dinner and Entertainment starts at 6:00 PM. Join us at the California Building in Idlewild Park Reno, NV To register for this free event, go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/407898034/efbevent

First Saturday Rosary, Oct 3rd, 9:00 am

Calling all Pro-Life Catholics (and others who are interested) to pray the Rosary at the abortion site on Saturday, May 2nd at 9:00 am. Join us as we pray the Gospel. This monthly rosary continues year round, as the faithful gather to Pray to End Abortion. We will continue our prayerful faithful witness until this clinic is closed for good!

Respect Life Mass – Oct 4th, 9:30 am

Join Bishop Calvo as he celebrates the annual Respect Life Mass and leads a Rosary Procession on Sunday, October 4, 2009, at 9:30 a.m., St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral, 310 West Second Street, Reno. A Rosary Procession along the river in downtown Reno will follow the Mass.

Life Chain Sunday – Oct 4th, 2 – 3:30 pm

On Sunday, Oct 4, from 2 – 3:30 pm we will join hundreds of Life Chains across the nation, as we hold signs at the corner of S. Virginia and McCarran, proclaiming the truth that Abortion Kills Children. We make this statement with a prayerful attitude, asking all who participate to remember that we come to share the Truth of Christ in Love. Join us as we call all to appreciate the precious nature of the innocent unborn.

Allow us to Announce Your Pro-Life Prayer Gathering Here

Gather together to Pray to End Abortion! When you have plans, let us know and we’ll let others know through our updates.

40 Days through Scripture

Day 7: Mark 7 – 6 (including: Mark 8:34-38 )

He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? What could one give in exchange for his life? Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Have you denied yourself and picked up your cross today? Come to the sidewalk, stand at the foot of the cross, be there for the innocents as they leave the world.

To get the complete 40 Days Through the New Testament list, go to: www.40DaysforLife.com/renotahoe/NewTestament, print it out and get started now. It’s never too late to start reading the bible.

National News

Wash. College Agrees to End Discrimination against Pro-Life Students

[LifeSiteNews.com SPOKANE, WA, September 28, 2009] - Community Colleges of Spokane and Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) officials agreed to a court order Thursday that settles a lawsuit filed after they attempted to silence the pro-life message of a student group.

SFCC officials threatened student Beth Sheeran and other members of a Christian student group with disciplinary measures, including expulsion, if they chose to hold a pro-life event on campus. The information Sheeran and the others were sharing with fellow students was deemed "discriminatory" by the college since it did not include a pro-abortion viewpoint.

The agreed-upon order eliminates or revises the problematic policies and programs that led to the unfair treatment of the student organization. To Read the Entire Story …

Video Vignette

Can’t Handle the Truth, Only One Choice for Pro-Choice

After being encouraged to abort her child, which she had been told was merely a clump of cells, a pregnant mother departs the abortion site and opts to have a free ultra-sound being offered nearby. What she finds so shocks her that she insists that the members of the life affirming clinic that offered her the opportunity to see her unborn baby bring pictures, with her written permission, to the escorts at the clinic where she was just deceived. Rather than a clump of cells, her child is a well developed person, with fully defined features growing within her. This is not what she had been led to believe, and if she had accepted their advice, believing what she was being told, her child would be dead and at some point she would have come to know the truth, but by then it would be too late for her child. Who really cares about women, who is really interested in providing the truth, who really wants to come forward to dialogue? Watch

Get Involved!

Join a Webcast to Learn More about Health Care Reform

Join the Christian Medical Association / Freedom2Care on Tuesday, September 29 from 8:30 PM/EST-9:30 PM/EST for a Live Webcast on Healthcare reform legislation. To view the webcast go to http://www.livestream.com/cmda.

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