Health Care Reform

The Senate version of Health Care Reform has many flaws and it fatally flawed by allowing federal funding of abortions - life and death issue. The present strategy of Congress is to have the House pass the Senate version “as is” and send it to the President for signature. Then through the Budget Reconciliation Process address the budget inequities. However, that process cannot address the issue of abortion nor many other non-budgetary flaws in the Senate version. Therefore, it is incumbent to have the House of Representatives turn down the Senate passed
version.

What can you do? The National Right to Life Organization has web page which tells you how to contact your congressman and 2 Senators.

Go to www.NRLActionCenter.com and take a few minutes to use the form there to send messages to your U.S. House member and him or her to oppose the Senate passed version of health care as it is fatally flawed as it applies to abortion. You can also use the message that is already there or you can r modify it. One click and it is off to your Congressman.

Your action is needed now! The Speaker of the House is presently in the process of rounding up the undecided votes so as to pass it in the House. Your action may very well keep her from getting the needed undecided votes.

Fr. Mike

3/06/10

Lectio - Lk 13.1-9

Meditatio: “He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it’.” Lk 13.8


Oratio: "O God, you are so patient with us even when we offend you with our sins.

I remember Jesus told the parable of a fig tree that did not bear fruit for three years and the owner, You, gave it another year to bear fruit.

Grant that I may never presume on your patience but when I sin and come to my senses, to immediately repent for that is the best way to express m gratitude for your patience.

I ask this of you, who lives and reigns with Jesus and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever. Amen.”

Contemplatio: Keep silence and remain in recollection for a few minutes.

Operatio: Today I will be patient with those who are irksome.

Note: Tomorrow’s selection is from Jn 4.43-54