Please visit the sites for St. Pio, I pray that he will touch your lives the way he has touched ours in a very special way.
St. Maurice is the saint that prays against cramps. If you are having a day filled with pain and cramping, consider offering up a prayer to St. Maurice. I will share with you that the intercession of the saints is a great blessing, most espcecially when we are feeling all alone.
Please welcome our new guest author “All You Who Hope“, to the Apostolate of Hannah’s Tears. Please continue to pray for our Catholic doctors, nurses, and those in the field of fertility health, as the Lord is opening many new doors to bless women in their health needs.
Thank you again to my dear friend at “All You Who Hope”!
Guest Author: All You Who Hope
Napro Center Announcement
New York City is getting a NaPro center! The JPII Center for Women will open an authentically Catholic, comprehensive women’s healthcare center in Manhattan in July 2009. The center will offer many services for women, including NaProTechnology. The project is still in the early stages, but you can follow the progress on their blog.
With more than 1.5 million people in Manhattan, it is hard to believe that this will be its first NaPro center. It is even more surprising considering the large Catholic population in the city (there are about 2.5 million Catholics in the Archdiocese of New York).
The center is the dream of a Carmelite mother of seven, who lives in Upstate New York with her family, and a young doctor from Pennsylvania. The two women, with the help of generous anonymous donors, are teaming up to make their dream a reality and help countless women along the way.
Here’s an excerpt from their blog:
Our goal is to create a uniquely woman-centered “medical home” for women living in Manhattan and surrounding areas, a place where women can come for all of their healthcare needs — both general and reproductive — a place where they will receive excellent medical care in an environment that supports and affirms their dignity as women.
We hope to be a “home” where women can feel comfortable, knowing that their medical care is completely in line with their Catholic values (practicing according to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Healthcare) and where their unique needs and challenges as wives, mothers, daughters, religious or single lay women are considered and addressed as part of their comprehensive medical care.
How exciting! What an awesome opportunity for NaProTechnology to be made visible to such a wide audience. NaPro is not just some alternative for those of us who happen to be Catholic; it is a medically-sound, proven and often more successful alternative to assisted reproductive technologies, not to mention it focuses on diagnosing and treating the disease rather than just applying a band-aid. As the doctor behind this project told me, it will only be a matter of time before NaPro sweeps the nation!
Please keep this center in your prayers, those involved would truly appreciate it. Perhaps you could pray especially to St. Gianna, since the center will be named for her (the “JPII Center for Women” is the name it is incorporated under, but Gianna will be the name of the actual center. Actually, John Paul II is probably another great one to pray to for this as well! What wonderful helpers the center will have in heaven!).
May Our Lady of Hope bless and keep you all.
On January 17, 1871, Our Lady of Hope appeared in the French village of Pontmain. There she reveales herself as the “Madonna of the Crucifix” and gave the world her message of “Hope through Prayer and the Cross.” The basilica built at Pontmain by the Oblates fo Mary Immaculate is one of the great French pilgrimage places, noted for its miracles of grace.
Dear friends, as we continue on our individual journeys of faith (and yet together), I feel called to share this passage from 1 Peter 1:6-9, for our personal prayer and meditation. May God bless you richly!
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you who by the power of God are safeguarded through faith, to a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final time. In this you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to suffer through various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him, you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain the goal of (your) faith, the salvation of your souls.
~ 1 Peter 1:6-9
Amen!
2 Chronicles 7:14
*Regardless of where you live throughout the world, let us all join in on the effort of praying for life. Life of the unborn… God’s precious infants… If we could call upon all the Christians of the world to fast and pray for the end of abortion, just imagine the grace that would come forth from Heaven. Thank you for hearing God’s call!
The note below was sent to us by one of our readers on the feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim.
So many souls praying for those who are suffering with infertility, most especially those that have experienced the challenges themselves.
Thank you (J.) for sharing your beautiful note of support!
Anyone else that would like to share a note with us, send your thoughts to Hannahs.Tears@gmail.com .
Dear Hannah’s Tears –
What a beautiful apostolate you have for women who have and are experiencing infertility. My husband and I experienced infertility for 5 years and—by the grace of God—we have two young boys. We are trying again and hopefully God will bless us again. However, the pains of infertility are still present in our hearts. And, I have a very strong empathetic response to women who are childless right now. I would love to have a copy of the essay, Embracing the Cross of Infertility, but am having a difficult time accessing it on the web.
Can you help me?
In addition, check out this article from Zenit on a spiritual answer to infertility—referring to the above essay.
http://www.zenit.org/article-23330?l=english
Today is the anniversary date that Our Lady called a few simple women to begin a ministry on the path of sorrows. I pray and ask Our Blessed Mother to take this ministry into her Immaculate Heart and do with it as she wills to bring glory to her son Jesus.
We pray that you will find peace and hope in her son.
In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis
Daughters of Mary Mother of Healing Love
The Marians of the Immaculate Conception
Lay Women and Men throughout the world
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* Pope Benedict speaks
On the ‘2nd Treasure’
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The Triumph of the Cross
.God bless and keep you all in His Most Sacred Heart.
I pray that my dear friend at All You Who Hope, doesn’t mind me linking her post for
I find her words heart warming as we try to embrace our cross each day… It is not easy whatever the cross. Our infertility, losing a child through miscarriage, the early death of a child, illness, or the process of giving up my will over Gods Holy will.
Our prayer for you today is that you will find hope, strength and encouragement in the journey of another soul trying to embrace her cross. We are all called to encourage each other… we are all called to be another “Simon of Cyrene”. This is just what “All You Who Hope” does for us today, she brings encouragement to us who seek to follow Our Lord in the teachings of Holy Mother Church. If you follow her site you see her trials, of hope and sorrow, but most of all you see her continual trust in the Lord no matter what life seems to bring.
Remember dear friends it is in the trying that we carry our cross with faith, hope and love… we are only human…take one day at a time. Our Lady is with you in your sufferings, continue to seek her aide.
You are in our prayers, if you need to talk, we are here to listen.
Blessings in Christ,
