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This is me! Just checking things out, doing a little housekeeping until the time I break out of here and get to see my mom and dad face to face - and I cant wait to see my new brother and sister - seeing what all those voices looked like - oh and those men who talk to God? I found out they wear black with funny collars. +
HERE IS THE BEAUTIFUL LADY I could hear my mom praying to her ---- Yes, this is her, this is the lady - she is so beautiful - she would hug me over and over again and encourage me to hang in there till it was my time to come into the world as it will be very bright!!!!!. + ST GIANNA MOLLA
+ JEREMIAH 1:5,7 MAKES IT VERY CLEAR
50 ANNIVERSARY and the HHS MANDATE We are especially drawn to Saint Gianna in 2012, the 50th anniversary of her death because of the HHS Mandate (August 2011 - 12). It is as if the Lord called her forward at this important time to show us the way through her 'boldness and moral courage'. +
PRAY YOUR ROSARY FOR LIFE Ask St Gianna to intercede for you or a loved one regarding a healthy pregnancy, the unborn, marriages, infertility and professions. Pray for a change of heart re abortions and for our government to support the Constitution of the United States and the First Amendment protecting life from conception to natural death. + Pray for all children whose lives have been snuffed out but a 'snip' of the spinal cord or worse. + MAY 13th 2013 Today is May 13th - we did not plan this but as heaven would have it it is the day we are building this page. I am reminded of several things - along with this being the anniversry of the first visit of Mary to the 3 shepherd children of Fatima Portugal, + But as I type in these words of life, the media is announcing the sentencing of the Philadelphia Abortionist Dr Kermit Gosnell. We do not know how many babies died under his hand - or women - in the abortion procedure - but history has him guilty of first degree murder on 3 late term babies and 1 woman wo died as a result of his botched abortion. (he chose life for himself) + We pray, on this holy day that this is the turning point in history regarding the killing of innocent babies who should be safe in their mothers womb. More and more mills are being revealied as we write! Thanks be to God! + PSALM 139:13-16
A POWERFUL WITNESS To read the witness written about the birth of this baby shown above be sure to click link below. And remember in the mysterious ways of our lady - this page was completed on the 13th of May, the date of the first apparition of our Lady of Fatima to the three shepherd children. + AND ON THIS DAY! Again as I key these words on this page, I am hearing the verdict for the abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell being read. We must never forget what this man - and others like him - did to so many unknown babies and their mothers as there are always two victims in an abortion. + REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING Please remember if you have had an abortion, ask for forgiveness - forgive yourself. It is done and one needs to get on with life. Name the baby and pray pray pray! What a powerful intercessor you have in heaven. And remember, redemptive suffering is a very powerful prayer. + TWO RARE DELIVERIES Before reading these witness below, please remember these are both very, very rare deliveries. Most deliveries are just as nature planned them to be - with no complications. If you are pregnant now or plan to be, do invite St Gianna along as she is great company! And pray for those who are considering abortions. THANK YOU GIANNA - WHO IS ST GIANNA? MORE LINKS |
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“I’ll give you 30 minutes to decide!” was all my doctor said as he left the room. I was in such horrible pain. My sister held my hand tightly as I wept and screamed during a 4 minute contraction. My baby’s heart rate had very shown signs of distress but the doctor knew I had no more to give. I heard the prayers of our priest as he prayed a row of Hail Marys, my mother stroking my arm but it was the sound of my husband’s tears hitting the pillow that tore my heart open. + LOOKING BACK Our hearts had been filled with such joy on Mothers Day 2012 when a dollar store pregnancy test revealed that I was really pregnant. It had only been four months since my husband had undergone a reverse vasectomy to undo the damage that we had done to our family and ourselves. + SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT About eight years before, our marriage was in serious trouble. We had been married for 4 years and had a little boy and girl. In those four years two people that had been so happy and inseparable, Christians, following the Catholic faith, had become two sad individuals who had fallen away from God . My husband had completely lost his belief in a good god. He was a police officer who had seen too much of the evil of the world and he blamed God for it all. After all, what kind of God would let all this happen to mankind, especially the children. I was alone in my faith and slowly stopped practicing my faith. + SO WE HAD IT DONE My husband felt that the answer to his unhappiness and a great stress off our marriage would be to get one of us “fixed.” I fought against this since the only thing I had ever wanted to do since we started dating was to be a mother. However, over a few months this idea started to sound really good to me. He was so miserable, unloving and never home that I started to feel that I never wanted to have more children with him. So we had the vasectomy done. + BUT SHORT LIVED The promise of a carefree intimacy was short lived. He became even more miserable and selfish. I became resentful of him and we grew further and further apart. We tried to fill that huge hole with money but going after money took me away from my children and my husband away from us. Before too long my husband and I found ourselves at the beginning of a horrible nightmare, he told me he didn’t love me anymore. + TO CONSECRATE MYSELF So many times when we think God is so far away or has forsaken us, it is actually God’s greatest mercy! That darkest night changed my life. As Saint Peter said, “Lord to whom shall we go, you have the words of everlasting life!” I turned to the Lord. I prayed as I had never prayed before. But it was the choice to consecrate myself to the Blessed Mother that made all the difference. Looking at your own sin and faults and asking the Lord to change you changes your perspective. I began to attend daily mass and turned to God in the sacrament of reconciliation. I was filled with such hope even though my husband seemed to resent me more and more. + AND BEGGED FORGIVENESS I believe that the Lord holds out on us until we are at a breaking point and I was the day the Lord showed up! I say it that way because at my husbands darkest moment, when life was the worst it could be I saw Jesus’ saving power. I witnessed my husband drop to his knees and beg forgiveness, I saw him reach out to God and the gates of his mercy open up. That mercy poured out onto our marriage and that mercy opened our eyes to many things that we had done wrong and needed to change. The heaviest regret on our hearts was the vasectomy that we had both agreed to. + WHO WAS ST GIANNA? It was at this time when we were researching a doctor and really praying to do God’s will that a faith filled young lady told me that while she was praying her rosary she felt the Blessed Mother telling her to tell me that I needed to get to know Saint Gianna. Who was Saint Gianna! If it was from Our Lady then it was very important + A CESAREAN BIRTH, YET --- I had never heard of her, so I asked everyone I could think of if they had any information on her. Our religious educator had a wonderful book on her that I devoured. Gianna was an older mother, like me. She was a working mother, a doctor, a pediatrician, a wonderful wife, a wonderful mother, but she had died shortly after the birth of her 4th child, a cesarean section birth! She gave her life for her unborn child. + MY JOURNEY WITH GIANNA MOLLA BEGAN I began to research her endlessly, watched video of her (since she is a modern time saint), read anything I could because after only two menstrual cycles after I had prayed that she find us a doctor, I was pregnant. God blessed us and so my journey with Gianna began. + --- STILL FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN We were overjoyed that we were going to have a new baby but my pregnancy was plagued by fear of the unknown. Was my baby going to have any disabilities because my pregnancy was labeled “advanced age?” Was I going to lose my baby because I was older? I had to deny every test that was thrown at us because it wouldn’t matter; I was not going to abort my child even in the worst predicament. But that doesn’t mean that the devil won’t use concern to manipulate thoughts! I prayed with hope but I still didn’t know what Gianna wanted. There were so many aspects to her life that I connected with, wanting to be a better wife and mother. + I BEGAN A NOVENA I wanted a safe pregnancy and delivery. The week of my due date I began a novena to her for my doctors and staff. I was nervous. The last 2 months of my pregnancy were very difficult, lots of bed rest because the weight of my uterus was pressing on my arteries bringing blood back to my heart. I kept asking her intercession but I was more and more scared as each day passed by until why I needed her became clear. + THE TIME HAD COME I began labor on a Wednesday at 6:00pm. At 2:30 it was time to head in. Contractions were 2 minutes apart but were at times very far apart, which wasn’t normal. My doctor came into my delivery room around 6:30am and announced that he was going to break my waters and see what happens. I immediately went from 5 cm to 8 cm dilated. We were having a baby now. My prayers intensified to Gianna. This was it – but it wasn’t. + BUT SOMETHING WAS WRONG I had begun to push and after about an hour we were wondering what was happening. I hadn’t progressed and my doctor wanted me to stop pushing because my cervix was starting to swell. I could feel something was wrong. It wasn’t pain of contractions I was feeling it was pain on my pelvic bones and tail bone. I couldn’t find the “place to push! + GIANNA, HELP ME! We tried everything but by 10:00am I was exhausted and in the worst pain. I had delivered naturally before and this was not like what I remembered. They moved me to a birthing stool, nothing, I was shaking and just about out of my mind with fear. I was scared and praying, “Gianna help me!” Finally I accepted pain relief. They hoped that I would deliver while relaxed but the meds wore off too soon. I was wailing out in pain with a dear priest at my side praying to Our Lady. My mother was praying and stroking my arm but it was my husband’s tears hitting my pillow when I knew it was over. I thought I was dying. I was beside myself with anguish. Was I about to leave my children and husband behind? + I THOUGHT I WAS DYING I looked at my husband and gave up. “I can’t do this anymore!” I told him. Gianna!” I kept screaming,” Gianna help me, Gianna!” My doctor gave me a shot that was going to stop the contractions but it didn’t work. Was this why I needed to know her? The Blessed Mother knew that this was how my deliver would be, a very emergency cesarean section. Gianna’s last baby was born like this and she was a doctor. During her life she knew the consequences of her decision. She was in that delivery room with me, she was guiding the doctors and staff. GIANNA WAS MY INTERCESSOR
AND WE HEARD THE DOCTOR YELL --- My husband came in and said, “I love you” and we heard the doctor yell, “It’s a BOY!” Our son was born at 1:25pm. He was a healthy 9.8lbs and 22.5 inches long. That’s why he wasn’t coming. There was no way he was coming naturally. + 50 YEARS AGO I WOULD HAVE DIED The next day my doctor told me that my body would never have pushed him out. Fifty years ago I would have died on the delivery table and if my baby had been born naturally he would have suffered neurological complications. That reality shook me and I thanked God for medical advances but I also prayed for the first time for the souls of mothers and babies who had died in childbirth. +
+ BACK TO MOM It’s been 14 weeks since the birth of my son. I thank God endlessly for the gift of life. My own life and the life of my son! It was a very spiritual journey for me, learning to trust the Lord but Gianna was with me every step of the way. She became a very trusted friend. I am still learning more and more about her but she gave me a special gift through it all. Closeness I cannot express. She is Gianna Beretta Molla and she is my special friend. I love you +
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WAKE UP CALL! When Guild member Carols daughter Cori asked the other day if I would consider doing a dedication to St Gianna – and second, 'did I know who she was?' I wasn't sure but asked, 'is she the one who ----- ?' "Yes" she said, and so I started to do some homework on her. + WHAT WE HAD IN COMMON What I first discovered was what we had in common. Mother. Wife. Profession. A contemporary – interesting! Heart warming! But not prepared for what I found out next: St Gianna married her husband (Pietro) in 1955, I married my husband (Peter) in 1955. She died after the delivery of her 4th child, a 10 lb girl. I died after delivering my 4th child, a 10.5 lb girl! + IT HIT ME HARD This really hit me hard. The difference was of course that my earthly life was given back. I was told by the mercy light ‘it was not my time’ St. Gianna had completed her physical work on earth (and now intercedes for each of us through the Communion of Saints - when we ask). St. Giana had opened my stubborn heart. These words below were hitting home - as if directed to me: +
ANDTO NEVER FORGET That not only do we have a beautiful, contemporary saint in heaven who is working in this present moment to protect the unborn as she did with her own life but we must also be co-operators by asking for her intercession and as she said, "Be a living witness". So I share my witness below giving glory to God! |
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+ (Scripps Hospital - La Jolla CA) On May 29th 1961, My Doctor induced labor as our 4th baby was growing larger every day, too large. All went well, she was 10.5 lbs and was beautiful. She looked as if she was several months old. We named her Elaine Marie. She would join her siblings Barbara, Peter and Lynn! + But things began to fall apart. I was hemorrhaging and they could not stop the flow of blood. More doctors and nurses were called in and they began to massage my stomach and eventually start transfusions. the Uterine muscles were not tightening - PPH - PostPartum Hemorrhaging, the leading cause of death after delivery. It was so painful! I begged them to please, please stop. As they continued to work, I became too weak to hold on to my body --- + --- I entered into a beautiful, heavenly light being enthroned in a spectrum of colors we are unable to see on earth - and music! There were glory notes of harmony we are unable to hear with our human ears! The pain was gone. + Then these words from the glory light entered my being. "Do you want to come now - or go back?" There was no question ! As much as I loved my husband and 3, now 4 children - the light was the most beautiful, most powerful, pure love I had ever known or felt. I said, ' I want to come". + The light lovingly assured me "It is not yet time - you have work to do" And with that I became aware of my body lying on the bed with people around it far below me and was instantly back. Then I noticed I could hear the ocean. + I woke up in a different room. Through the hospital window I saw what I thought was the most beautiful moon I had ever seen! Someone said, 'Welcome back". There was a nurse standing over me with her hand on my stomach. I thought, "How did she know?" + She asked a curious question, "Are you Catholic?" I said, "Yes'. She said, "I thought so as there was a rosary on the table next to your bed". (My mother in law gave me her rosary to hold during delivery. With her Irish grin she said, "Its broken but it will still work" + The nurse added, "Did you know all the Doctors and Nurses that attended you last night were Catholic?" (I didn't know) but thought it a curious question. The next day, one by one each one came by with a big grin on their faces to simply say "HI". And I thought, of course, they knew!'they were my prayer warriors!' + I was feeling much better by feeding time. When they brought my 10.5 lb baby we all laughed as my roommates baby was 5.25 lb., one half the size as mine - She laughed and said 'Your baby was the talk of the hospital' + NEVER TOLD A SOUL I didn't tell a soul about this encounter with heaven for many years. I didn't have to convince anyone what happened. Who would believe it? I knew it was real. After all there was little info available about the after life at that time like there is now. + After 3 miscarriages, we had two more very healthy babies and along the way, Mary and John. The world was never so beautiful or life so precious. Life was so good, we adopted Sarah! + Do I still see or hear the rare colors and music? No, but I know they are there! Above all, I know there is an eternal land of the living. I do not have to have faith - or trust - heaven is there, I know heaven is there! + And our loved ones are like living roots to the family tree - still interceding for us here on earth. I thank them every night for saying 'yes' to life so we could be alive today. And like St. Gianna inspires us to do: "Desire to be a saint and be in heaven when it is our appointed time:" And --- + TO NEVER FEAR DEATH! + Elaine today, an awesome daughter
+ Missing a few but look at us now and still growing! (Elaine is in red on the right side of this picture,her husband behind her, daughter in front of me.
IN THE WORLD TODAY
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