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Holy Mother Church has a duty to be there with comfort, mercy, healing, and hope every time a member of her flock suffers the loss of one of our Holy Innocents. Does your diocese or parish offer a healing Mass for those who have suffered perinatal loss (miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, and infant death)? We walk through why it’s important to grieve the loss of a pregnancy. . . . → Read More: The Importance of Grieving Pregnancy and Infant Loss  6 comments  Family Life, Schmidt, Joel, Schmidt, Lisa  Death, Diocese of Des Moines, Divorce, Ectopic Pregnancy, Fertility, Healing, Holy Innocents, Hope, Infant Death, Marriage and Family Life, mercy, Miscarriage, Our Lady Queen of Hope, Perinatal Loss, Pregnancy and Infant Loss, Sisters of Life, St. Augustin Catholic Church, Stillbirth 
The culture doesn’t just have to change by revolutions. Lots of Catholic conservatives are up in arms these days. If it isn’t over Bishop Blaire expressing concerns about Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, it’s probably over Cardinal Dolan inviting President Obama to the Alfred E. Smith Dinner. “How dare they?!” we cry. When things don’t seem to be going according to our plan, we act as if the sky is falling. Why are we often more inclined to fold up the tent than weather the storm? Indivisible co-author Jay Richards comments on why we shouldn’t be so quick to lose hope. * * * The Practicing Catholic: One of . . . → Read More: Indivisible: Jay Richards on Embracing Incremental Change Unite with Christians throughout the world in praying for the pope’s monthly prayer intentions. Since the nineteenth century, popes have asked the Apostleship of Prayer to pray for specific intentions. Two prayer intentions are requested each month from the Holy Father, a general intention and a mission intention. Let us join the Apostleship of Prayer’s dedication to pray for these intentions each day. Pope Benedict XVI’s April 2012 prayer intentions are: General Intention – Vocations: That many young people may hear the call of Christ and follow him in the priesthood and religious life. During the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI initiated the World Day of Prayer for Vocations . . . → Read More: Pope Benedict XVI’s April Prayer Intentions The innocents were slaughtered as infants for Christ; spotless, they follow the lamb and sing forever: Glory to you, O Lord. Today the Church remembers the Holy Innocents, the male children executed because of Herod’s fury to find the Christ child. Herod, fearing for his throne after the Magi told him of the birth of Jesus, ordered the massacre of all Bethlehem boys age two and under hoping that Jesus would be among those killed (Matthew 2:1-18). According to Matthew, this fulfilled a prophecy of Jeremiah 31:15: ”A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no . . . → Read More: The Feast of the Holy Innocents Seeing & recognizing the true presence of God in our lives Remember the song: “Do you hear what I hear? Said the night wind to the little lamb. Do you see what I see? Way up in the sky, little lamb?” As I get ready for Christmas, what do I see? Do I see myself setting out boxes of decorations, or recognizing the beauty of a single shining star? Do I see myself bustling around shopping for the perfect gift, or recognizing the joy in a small child’s delight of a glittery bow? Do I see myself hurrying to get a list of food prepared, or recognizing the love and . . . → Read More: Do You See What I See? And they waited. And we waited. And we are rewarded. We are rewarded by a love that conquers our fears, a love that achieves our hopes, a love given to us by His grace because we believe. And all because one man, Jesus, had a love for us greater than the fear of suffering; a love greater than the fear of torture and humiliation; a love greater than the fear of death. Our patience was/is much less than the patience of Christ’s followers. We know what we are waiting for, Christ’s followers did not, and yet we struggle to wait through the 40 days of Lent. Christ’s followers had waited . . . → Read More: Love is Greater than Fear Leave a comment Faith, Guest Contributors cross, Death, Easter, Fear, forgiveness, Hope, Humiliation, Jesus, Lent, Light, love, Moses, Noah, patience, Resurrection, Service, Torture, Waiting Informed Choices Medical Clinic is coming to the Des Moines area! This is huge for the pro-life cause for a number of reasons. Iowa has been under siege in the fight for life lately. Planned Parenthood has been perfecting its telemed abortion scheme in Iowa whereby abortion drugs are administered remotely via a push-button mechanism. No doctor is present when the drawer opens and pills appear for the mother to take, or later when the drugs go into effect on the mother and she delivers her aborted child. Despite this violating Iowa law requiring the presence of a physician, the law has not been enforced. Iowa has been used by . . . → Read More: Real Hope for Life November 7, 2010: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time The “afterlife” is an interesting topic. Bring it up with enough people and you will get responses ranging from reincarnation to rapture and everything in between, including nothing at all. What do you believe? This was the subject of the past Sunday’s readings. The coffin of a victim is carried past Our Lady of Salvation Church the morning after its congregation was taken hostage in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces stormed the Baghdad church where the militants had killed dozens of people, including a priest. (Hadi Mizban / . . . → Read More: Happily Ever After |
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