Hawaii State Capitol, HonoluluBishop Larry Silva of the Diocese of Honolulu wrote a hard-hitting editorial about the new law legalizing assisted suicide in his state and raises serious questions about how it requires people to lie on death certificates and to insurance companies, how it disregards the eternal consequences of this choice and the guilt it imposes on families, and how it sends a dangerous message to youth that sometimes killing yourself is better than living.
Nicole Weider (YouTube)Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Nicole Weider, a former model and founder of Project Inspired, a ministry dedicated to helping young women live a life of value and purpose, was glad to see Cosmopolitan magazine stripped from the shelves of Walmart because women are fed up with its hyper-sexualized content.
April 10
“The great truth that God is all, and the rest nothing, becomes the life of the soul, and upon it one can lean securely amid the incomprehensible mysteries of this world.”
--Traditionally attributed to Bl. Marie-Therese De Soubiran
There have been recent developments on the status of Father Yozefu Ssemakula, author of a book entitled, The Healing of Families, which has been the subject of controversy for several years.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSHawaii’s Governor David Ige (D) signed a new law into force that will allow terminally ill patients to end their lives by assisted suicide.
First it was Poland, then it was Ireland, next came the UK. Now it’s America’s turn to gather the faithful along the borders of this great nation, armed with the most powerful weapon in our arsenal against the steady encroachment of evil in our day – the Rosary.
April 9
“Love has a hem to her garment
That reaches the very dust.
It sweeps the stains
From the streets and lanes,
And because it can, it must.”
--Anonymous poem,
beloved by St. Teresa of Calcutta,
describing St. Fabiola
April 8
“Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be.”
--From a sermon of St. Bernard
April 7
St. Jean-Baptiste De La Salle (1651-1719)
“Adapt yourself with gracious and charitable compliance to all your neighbor’s weaknesses. In particular, make a rule to hide your feelings in many inconsequential matters.”
--St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle to his Christian Brothers
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to review a decision by a lower court that blocked the pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) from releasing additional videos that reveal illegal trafficking of fetal body parts by the abortion industry.
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