Catholic Bishops Roll Out Secret Weapon: Cloistered Nuns Appointed Prayer Ambassadors in Fight For Religious Freedom
Posted by Andrea Ryan on Monday, June 25, 2012, 4:56 PM
The US Catholic Bishops have laid out their plan to defeat the Obama Administration’s HHS mandate this weekend. The Church is holding a Fortnight for Freedom to fight back against this unconstitutional law.
And a group of cloistered nuns was appointed “Prayer Ambassadors” in the fight for religious freedom.
Passionist Nuns Sister Mary Veronica, Mother Mary Salvador and Sister Mary Elizabeth spoke to reporters last week from behind the grille at their Ellisville monastery. From their cloister the nuns have been praying for religious liberty. Because they do not own a television or access the Internet, the nuns keep updated on the HHS mandate issue through the St. Louis Review, National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor and L’Observatore Romano, which the sisters take turns reading aloud during meals. (St. Louis Review)
In deep violation of our First Amendment, Obama launched an all-out war against our Constitution’s protection of religious freedom with ObamaCare’s employer mandate. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is fighting back. Hard. As part of its major offensive campaign, the Fortnight for Freedom, the U.S. bishops are asking the faithful to devote part of their daily prayer lives to the issue of religious liberty.
The Passionist Nuns~
A small, cloistered group of eight women dedicated to a life of Prayer, Solitude, Penance, and Community, is taking up this fight with the best weapon they have, prayer. From their Immaculate Conception Convent in Ellisville, MO, the Passionist Nuns are devoted to “uniting (the fight for religious liberty), as the mystical body of Christ to Jesus on the Cross”.
From The St. Louis Review,
It was no coincidence to Mother Mary Salvador that she was admitted to the hospital on Feb. 10, 2012 — the same day President Barack Obama announced his so-called “compromise” for religious employers who objected to the HHS health care mandate.
The Passionist Nuns’ superior, who was treated for pneumonia and a collapsed lung, said there’s value to be found in the kind of physical suffering she experienced. With all of the evil present in the world, it’s especially important now, more than ever, to take human suffering and turn it to prayer.
Eight cloistered Passionist Nuns living at the Immaculate Conception Convent in Ellisville recently have taken that message to heart as they pray for the safeguarding of religious liberty in this country, joining with seven other contemplative communities in the St. Louis region to pray for religious liberty. Earlier this month, the archdiocese sent copies of a prayer card, with a letter asking each community to devote part of their daily prayer lives to the issue of religious liberty. …
“As the mystical body of Christ, we can unite (the fight for religious liberty) to Jesus on the Cross,” said Sister Veronica. …
Despite disconnecting themselves from most modern media, including television, the web and secular print media, the Passionist Nuns have remained informed on the HHS mandate and religious liberty primarily through the Catholic press, including the National Catholic Register, the St. Louis Review, Our Sunday Visitor and L’Osservatore Romano. Friends of the community who frequently visit the convent will share information, too.
Sitting on a small table in the vestibule of the convent are copies of a form letter, addressed to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, urging her to rescind the health care mandate and allow organizations and individuals to offer health coverage “that does not violate their moral and religious convictions.”
Besides incorporating religious liberty into their daily prayer intentions, the nuns are planning to pray a special litany during a novena timed with the bishops’ designated Fortnight for Freedom, June 21-July 4. They will hang an American flag outside the convent, and on July 4, when all churches around the nation are asked to ring their bells at noon, “we will gather up all the bells in the convent and ring them together,” said Mother Mary. …
Mother Mary said it’s essential to remember the impact of prayer, when a community is united and “we all speak together. It’s important that we do this unanimously.”
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.” ~Author unknown
No longer. Obama has invaded and violated our religious liberty, and in doing so has awakened and engaged war on a giant.
Defend Religious Liberty! Engage! Take Action…and Pray.
This is what the Catholic church is asking of all of us.
"It's essential to remember the impact of prayer, when a community is united and we all speak together. It's important that we do this unanimously." - Mother Mary
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Max Bacchus commented:
Certainly ya gotta pray, but doing even more is involved,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praise_the_Lord_and_Pass_the_Ammunition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dryBNYaj1sA
jony101 commented:
prayer is good, but evil government don’t care about prayer, they only respect overwhelming force. In other words nothing is going to happen.
Mermaz commented:
The Church says it did not ask for this fight. True, but they were the ones who let the camel’s nose under the tent in their push for Universal Healthcare. Actually they did it long ago when they stood by as the government usurped the charitable duty of individuals & religious institutions and turned them into entitlements and “safety nets.” Time to start taking care of each other again without the government as an intermediary.
Besides praying, please also try to make it to see For Greater Glory. It is so relevant now. It is a Hollywood movie worth spending your money on. Viva Cristo Rey!
TeachX3 commented:
#3, whatever. You obviously do not know my GOD. When The Father hears from His people, His Will will be done, period.
TeachX3 commented:
I am not Catholic, but my prayers have been with them, as well as with all Americans who practice their religion peacefully within our freedoms of liberty!
how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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June 24, 2012
Military pulls its insignias from Bibles
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Patty commented:
Obama has invaded and violated our religious liberty, and in doing so has awakened and engaged war on a giant.
Don’t get a Nun mad. She will always win. And when they get to praying Obama better Look Out!
A'Esquecida commented:
actually max, Prayer & Fasting is THE ULTIMATE WEAPON now.
These are the End of Times.
the adversary KNOWS his hour tolls.
This is the Final Battle before the Return of Christ Jesus.
We are the followers of a crucified Master
whom the followers of this World put to death.
We are not of this world,
but belong as heirs, to the kingdom of Everlasting Life.
it is a Mystery that cannot be understood w/out 1st Living it.
Our Master said ‘you are either for me or against me.’
maranâ’ thâ’
how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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jony101 #3 June 25, 2012 at 4:38 pm
imho, that history repeats itself time and again, is proof enough..
[But communists could not be wrong. After all, their knowledge was scientific, based on historical materialism, an understanding of the dialectical process in nature and human society, and a materialist (and thus realistic) view of nature. Marx has shown empirically where society has been and why, and he and his interpreters proved that it was destined for a communist end. No one could prevent this, but only stand in the way and delay it at the cost of more human misery. Those who disagreed with this world view and even with some of the proper interpretations of Marx and Lenin were, without a scintilla of doubt, wrong. After all, did not Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Mao say that. . . . In other words, communism was like a fanatical religion. It had its revealed text and chief interpreters. It had its priests and their ritualistic prose with all the answers. It had a heaven, and the proper behavior to reach it. It had its appeal to faith. And it had its crusade against nonbelievers.
What made this secular religion so utterly lethal was its seizure of all
the state's instrument of force and coercion and their immediate use
to destroy or control all independent sources of power, such as the
church, the professions, private businesses, schools, and, of course,
the family.]
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A'Esquecida commented:
Viva Cristo Rey!
LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING.
Patty commented:
Obama care will be overturned and decided to be unconstitutional. Then say Bye Bye to Seibilus.
how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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Max Bacchus #1 June 25, 2012 at 4:10 pm
there is a God, and we are the people, Amen..
fact is, Jesus was no pacifist (#50)..
not to mention the following:
Is It Right to Fight? (#9)
[One other point, if everyone was a pacifist except the evil and
lawbreakers of the world, then the world would be run by evil
dictators or our society would be anarchy.
Pacifism in its fullest sense is untenable
in the sinful world in which we live.
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The subject “Is it right to fight?” is a difficult issue because it makes us face the awful issues of a suppressive dictatorship, evil aggression, killing and death on the one hand and the “necessary evil” of war to stop it. Could this be the reason that General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg said, “It is well that war is so terrible—we should grow too fond of it.” The just war position, in the writer’s opinion, fits best with the Scriptural evidence.
Remember, it is possible to love your enemies and use force against him. The principle that love is embraced in laws of justice helps us see that loving one’s enemy is to make sure that justice prevails. In doing so, the Christian is also demonstrating “love for the ones his enemy has hurt.”]
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mama commented:
So weird , just under this article is NBPP call for “killing Cracka’s” .
Such a stark difference between the two whom disaree with others.
One calls for prayer the other calls for murder.
Scary times we are in
God help us all
valerie commented:
Someone told me a long time ago that the patron saint of the United States is mother Mary, in her role as the Divine Advocate.
It was ‘way too good to check, and anyway, I love the story of how Mary persuaded Jesus to perform his first miracle, to help out a young couple on their wedding day, also known as the story of the Wedding Feast at Cana.
It’s nice to know we have the nuns at our back.
how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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OT..
June 25, 2012
Look who’s tied to new Muslim Brotherhood president
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how dumbed down are we bg commented:
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re: #17 June 25, 2012 at 5:53 pm bg
unfortunately (#28), no surprise (#23).. *sigh*
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Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
I can’t help but look at this whole thing with mild amusement. Their ox gored, and all that.
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