When I was counseling not too long ago, I was praying to St. Padre Pio, and then all of a sudden I had this vision of Rose petals coming down on top of the Planned Parenthood building. I thought that St. Therese must be near. As I prayed to her the next thing that I was made to realize was that the flower petals were not there to make the building inside smell good, but instead they would bring about the reality of what takes place inside, the stench of death.

These Heavenly people who lived Saintly lives on earth are here to help us, to intercede for us, just as we would ask a good friend to pray for us.

My hat goes off to the Prayer Warriors from St. Peter's Catholic Church In Geneva, IL. Thank You.
You come with a prayerful mindset and offer prayer as an instrument for the stopping of abortion at
Planned Parenthood.

Prayer should be the goal, the means, and ultimately the end–the end being the thing accomplished while
pro-lifers are out there. Prayer will bring an end to abortion. The comission to pray is not secondary to our
opposition to the death culture; it is the opposition to the death culture.

Prayer will now avert the killing and will continue to stop the killing in the future. A woman in pursuit of an abortion is most likely to respond to the Holy Spirit working within her. The Holy Spirit miraculously and through the sometimes clumsy prayer efforts of the pro-lifers assembled there will evoke turn-aways.

A sage and long-time pro-life friend Orin Cooper once said this about turn-aways: "A woman who responds to our efforts there (at the abortion clinic) will most certainly have already had the hand of God on her. It is up to us to lead her along the right path" through, you guessed it: prayer!

The following prayer "The Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese" (who is now spending her heaven on earth in intercessory prayer on our behalf) is effective in producing turn-aways:

O Glorious St. Therese, whom Almighty God has raised up to aid and inspire the human family, I implore your Miraculous Intercession. You are so powerful in obtaining every need of body and spirit from the Heart of God. Holy Mother Church proclaims you "Prodigy of Miracles… the greatest saint of Modern Times." Now I fervently beseech you to answer my petition (mention here) and to carry out your promises of spending heaven doing good on earth… of letting fall from Heaven a Shower of Roses. Little Flower, give me your childlike faith, to see the Face of God in the people and experiences of my life, and to love God with full confidence. St. Therese, my Carmelite Sister, I will fulfill your plea "to be made known everywhere" and I will continue to lead others to Jesus through you.

I believe the young women entering the clinic are especially dear to St. Therese because she was a young "girl" herself when she entered religious life (only 15 years of age.) Being a "child" of the Little Flower the babies are brought under her intercessary care as well in this prayer–a prayer for God's intervention on behalf of the family.

Continue to pray this prayer for the women entering the abortion clinic and so too for the side-walk counselors. Ask for them God's direction, protection, and especially God's sanctification. Sanctification is God's continued revelation of Himself to us.

Padre Pio said that we need four things (all accomplished through prayer) in order to "hear" God and to enjoy His "presence": "to love," "to listen," "to understand," and "to be in awe of Him." Understanding of God comes from God. Ironically, three of the four things that we do in order to "hear" God we do ordinarily in our everyday relationships. With the exception of the last, of being "in awe of Him," we are already exercising the tools we need to converse with God everyday. The last of the four is the most important. Having an "awe of Him" is our reminder of His sovereignty. He is an "awesome" God. It is no surprise that this has long been a theme song for Pro-life:

"Our God is an awesome God!"

Thanks again to the prayer warriors at St. Peter's (Geneva, IL).

Thank you Jesus.

Prayer Request: For the intentions of Connie Betz (sidewalk-counselor)

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Thank you, Jesus.

Prayer request: For the families of the deceased NIU students, for the students wounded and grieving, and for the clergy to help them towards healing.

Mark 11:22-25

I encourage everyone to pray that God will guide this Hispanic couple during this pregnancy. I pray that He leads them to any physical, financial, spiritual, emotional assistance that they need. I pray that they will take advantage of the wide range of free help available from a crisis pregancy center.

I am inspired by the courage and compassion of Connie and the other sidewalk counselors who were involved with this rescue operation. I pray that God will bless them and protect them in their work.