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International Bereaved Mother’s Day
May 5, 2013 was International Bereaved Mother’s Day. Please go to the links provided below as CarlyMarie provides comfort to those enduring the cross and grief of infertility and loss.
Ministry: www.CarlyMarieProjectHeal.com
Need a card to support someone struggling with loss or infertility:
Our Prayer for YOU is Peace!
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Advent Blessings
Wishing you a Blessed Advent!
Please visit Praying Advent 2012
as you prepare
YOUR hearts
for the
Feast of Christmas
the coming
of the
Christ Child.
Gifts Shared…
Today I seek the fruit of patience, the gift of fortitude and the virtue of hope. How about you?
The 12 Fruits of the Holy Ghost
Charity
Joy
Peace
Patience
Benignity
Goodness
Longanimity
Mildness
Faith
Modesty
Continency
Chastity
Note: See Galatians 5:22-25 (three of these are not mentioned in some Greek and Latin manuscripts). The 12 Fruits of the Holy Ghost are the effects of the 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost.
The 7 Gifts of the Holy Ghost
Wisdom
Understanding
Counsel
Fortitude
Knowledge
Piety
Fear of the Lord
Note: See Isaias 11:1-3
The 3 Theological Virtues
Faith
Hope
Charity
Note: Reference I Corinthians 13:13. The Theological Virtues are called such because they are supernatural in origin, relate immediately to God, and can only be gained through His grace
The 4 Cardinal Virtues
Prudence
Justice
Fortitude
Temperance
Note: Refrerence Wisdom 8:7. The Cardinal Virtues, unlike the Theological Virtues, can be achieved by human effort.
Treating the Sacred with RESPECT
We must get this message to the youth, that they are a treasure that is unique and special and their lives must seek the love of Christ as we are made in the image of the one who is sacred we too are sacred. This is why our vote today is so very important, we must make a stand for life and not take it lightly, we must protect the unborn and the laws that will be made in this country. We must stand for the gift of life, family and marriage. Others make their choices but we must make a stand for what is true!
Bl. John Paul pray for us…
A Special Mother is Born Celebrates its First Birthday

Leticia Velasquez
Co-founder of KIDS (Keep Infants with Down Syndrome)
author of “A Special Mother is Born“.
National Infant loss Awareness
Kambra Malone
President/CEO
Back in His Arms Again
We ALL need to practice these ….
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First Ever Drug to Treat Down Syndrome
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Dr Alberto Costa and his daughter Tyche |
An encouraging article by Dan Hurley in the Washington Post describes the clinical trials of the first ever drugs to improve learning and memory in those with Down syndrome, conducted by Dr Alberto Costa and Dr William Mobley. Enthusiasm is spreading througout the research community that Down syndrome, once considered too complex to treat, and abandoned by researchers, is now the subject of clinical trials.
“A lot of us are well aware of progress we’ve seen . . . in the past five to 10 years,” said Jamie Edgin, a developmental psychologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Among those advances, she said, are tests designed to measure the cognitive abilities of people with Down syndrome. The development of mice with the genetic equivalent of Down syndrome, essential for studies of possible drug treatments, has been another milestone. “There’s a lot of excitement,” Edgin said.
It is a devastating irony that stunning advances in accuracy in prenatal testing AND the first clinical trials for medicine to treat cognitive impairment of Down syndrome are discovered concurrently. Sadder still is the fact that the prenatal testing is receiving vastly more press coverage.
Imagine the excitement in the press if a new cancer drug were discovered?! Well, this is how the families of over 400,000 Americans who have Down syndrome feel about this drug and its potential to change lives. Not only can it help my ten year old daughter communicate with her classmates, but it may help insure that she has more classmates who look like her.
Maybe, just maybe, if mothers who are told that their unborn baby has Down syndrome heard that there are amazing advances in treatment for the cognitive delays in Down syndrome, they would not despair of their child’s potential for a happy and fulfilling life as stated in this article.
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Servant of God, Dr Jerome Lejeune |
Of course, we who love our children with ‘designer genes’ already know their lives are wonderfully rich, full of love and learning, and giving back to their community. But if it takes more hope to help bring such gifted people to birth, then we want to be the first to spread the word. Thank you WaPo for joining us in our efforts to spread the good news.
Dr Jerome Lejeune, the French geneticist who won the Kennedy prize for his discovery of trisomy 21, the cause of Down syndrome spent his career hopeful that such treatments would be discovered, and his family via Lejeune USA continues to fund such promising research. Dr Lejeune understood the importance of such research when he said, “I see only one way left to save them, and that is to cure them. The task is immense, but so is Hope.”
Posted By Leticia to Hannah’s Tears Ministry at 8/01/2012 01:22:00 AM
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