Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Just wanted to share some events/news happening for
Lumina…hope to see some of you !

• “Morning /Afternoon of Prayerful Remembrance”
  :

Each year as the anniversary of
Roe v. Wade approaches, the truth that the wounds of abortion impact each of us in our respective communities
manifests itself anew and in an ever more vigorous way: far beyond those
directly involved in the act of abortion itself – whether it be one’s
co-worker, one’s neighbor, friend, relative, fellow parishioner – we have all been affected by the loss of each child aborted and the often
hidden suffering of their post-abortive parents.

An
Morning/Afternoon of Prayerful Remembrance and Intercession (APRI) is, as its name suggests: a
prayer service, created in the spirit of the New Evangelization, for the entire
local community. Acknowledging abortion’s universal impact through reflections
and testimonies offered as part of the day, it gives the opportunity for all of
us to come together in an extended period of prayer, contemplation, and
intercession in the context of the Church’s Sacraments, seeking forgiveness and
healing for our entire nation. The day includes an opportunity for the
Sacrament of Reconciliation, a period of silent, Eucharistic Adoration and
concludes with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Saturday Jan 16^th,
9-12pm, Our Lady’s Chapel, St Patrick’s Cathedral

Bishops Dolan will be giving the
opening prayer, with Rev George Stewart presiding.                 Come and enter into the
prayer…a beautiful service!

(This event will be taped for NET
TV, http://netny.net/currents/ to be
aired on Jan 21   or 22^nd. )

Thursday, Jan 21,
12:10pm-3pm, Basilica of the Immaculate Conception,             Washington, DC

Rev Mariusz Koch, CFR will
preside

• Jan 22^nd, March for Life – we will be part of
  Silent No More

• Yonkers Respect Life week: Yonkers Mayor, Philip
  Amicone, has sponsored a Yonkers Respect Life week
  for the past two years.  The Mayoral Proclamation will be given on Sunday,
  January 24, at 3
  P.M. at the Polish
  Community Center at 92 Waverly St.
  in Yonkers

            Speakers
include:

*Mayor Phil Amicone  
(Mayor of Yonkers)

*Bishop Timothy Dolan

*Rob Astorino (Westchester
County Executive)

*Rev Senator Ruben Diaz (NY
State Senator)

*Leslie Diaz (wife of
Senator Diaz)

*Theresa Bonopartis (Director
of Lumina, a post-abortion ministry)

• Pro Life Day: Feb 27, 2010, Berkley Heights NJ,
  Little Flower Church, 10-2pm, Fr Mariusz Koch, CFR, Theresa/talk

• Training day for professional counselor/therapists , April 19, 2010, St Joseph’s
  Seminary, sponsored by Project Rachel of the Archdiocese of NY and Lumina
  (details will follow)

Entering Canaan Retreats
– co developed
by The Sisters of Life & Theresa
Bonopartis of Lumina  call 718-881-8008
for further info

• Day
  of Prayer & Healing for Women suffering from abortion : January 16,
  2010
• Day
  of Prayer & Healing for Siblings of aborted babies : March 6, 2010,
• Day
  of Prayer & Healing for those who aborted due to poor prenatal
  diagnosis, April 10, 2010
• Day
  of Prayer & Healing for Men, May 1, 2010

Please keep us in prayer and spread the word!