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I hope you were able to take part in the historic event that just occurred on Saturday…Pittsburgh’s First Annual Pro-Life March! But, whether or not you were there in person, I wanted to share some highlights in this post, and to thank everyone who made this amazing day possible: Here we go…(Thanks to our friend […]

Planting Seeds We can easily become discouraged while praying in front of PP- there aren’t that many visible “saves”, people curse at us, and pregnant women don’t want to be counseled.  We can think that we are not making a difference, that all of our efforts are in vain.  It is easy to think, “Why

The Passion of Jesus Continues             The last days of Lent from the Fifth Sunday until Holy Thursday are known as Passiontide. In this time, we focus our prayer and contemplation on the Passion and Death of Our Lord. While these events recorded in the Gospels are historical facts, they are also “mysteries” that are

Words of an Angel…my testimony I had already written a blog for today, but as I prayed this morning, I realized that I needed to write a new one. Today, March 25th, is such a special day, that I just couldn’t use the reflection that I had written earlier in the week. Today, for Catholics,

Prophecy Fulfilled… This Sunday is Palm Sunday.  In the Gospel of Matthew for Palm Sunday, we hear: “From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.  And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”, which means, “My God, my God, why have you

“I wish you had been there…“ I just came across this old message that was posted on the 40 DFL website in March of 2021 during the height of covid in response to one of my daily reflections.  Many of you might remember it.  It is burned deeply into my memory and still haunts and

Don’t Fear the Cowpies!   Let’s admit it. Sometimes, life can be….er….. messy!  Does that prevent us from continuing to put one foot in front of the other? No. Day in and day out, we stalwart soldiers will don our armor and set out to confront who-knows-what. Paralysis is not an option.    Will we encounter hostility near

The Importance of Fathers… Women carrying a child, approaching PP, are the primary focus of our prayers and the pleadings of the sidewalk counselors.  This is how it should be, but it’s also important that, if a man is with her, he be approached, too.  Studies show that the father of the child is the

The Crown—The Right Place at the Right Time             Recently I was on a wonderful pilgrimage to many of the Catholic shrines of France with a group of amazing people from the Diocese of Pittsburgh and beyond. One of the sites that we visited was the beautiful Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. We know

Seeing the Suffering… It seems to me that there are two paths to Jesus that we can take…assuming we are on the path to Jesus in the first place. Most of the world is oblivious to Him, sadly, and are living their lives as best they can, without giving Jesus a thought. But still…even for