Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Merry
Christmas
& Happy
New
Year

Hope everyone had a
Blessed Christmas and New Year! I know that this time of year can be very
difficult and I held you all in prayer. It is hard to
believe 2013 is upon us.
May many return to His mercy this year!

 Just some NEWS I
wanted to remind you of…

•  Well, I finally
  finished it ! The Mercy Retreat Renewal weekend is Feb 22-24.
  

Fr
Fidelis, CFR will be the spiritual director and as usual some women from the ministry
will be sharing on the topics of the conferences. It is a wonderful way to
spiritually grow during lent and I know it will be grace filled!. Please let
either myself, or the Sisters know ASAP if you will be attending so we can plan
accordingly. 718 881 8008 or 866 575 0075

•  The Prayer
  Service “An Afternoon of Prayerful Remembrance” will take place on January
  19^th in Monroe
  NY. 
  

• Fr Mariusz, CFR
  and I will be presenting a post abortion training for 100 Seminarians on Jan
  16^th so I ask you to keep us in your prayers..these are our future
  priests who will be instruments of Gods mercy to many!

•  I also will be
  presenting to the Cardinals Pro Life Commission on Jan 29^th . This is
  very exciting and an opportunity to reach many ..again I ask for
  prayers

• Also, the March
  for Life is Jan 25^th, the 40^th anniversary f Roe vs Wade.
  You can get a listing of buses from the FLO site if you are looking to go. http://flrl.org/

I am looking into
beginning a 12 week post abortion group here in NY.  It would be a commitment to yourself and to the others participating
in the group. Those who have gone through this have found it to be very helpful.
If you are interested please let me know. It would be early Thursday evenings,
say 6:30 -8pm. I would let you know a start date.

 For those of you
who did not attend, the dinner was wonderful and the speakers touched many
hearts. It was amazing for me to see how God has worked and how many He has
touched through the trainings and retreats. How wonderful our God of Mercy
is!

 Did you know Lumina
has a FB page in addition to the blog and web site?

https://www.facebook.com/pages/LuminaHope-healing-after-Abortion/208067512599887

 I am also VERY
excited to say that my friend Dave Reardon of the Elliot Institute is going to
be a speaker at the Family Life Conference on April 13^th.  Dave and I
connected many years ago…in fact, the piece that is in the pamphlet for entering
Canaan that I wrote was written for his “Hope
& Healing” newspaper. http://afterabortion.org/1999/hope-and-healing-index/
 For those of you not familiar with him, he has been doing post abortion
research for many years and I truly believe was instrumental in bringing post
abortion into the forefront before anyone else was ever thinking of it. I know
he was there for me when nothing else was out there and he continues to do
amazing work!  He is a wonderful person and speaker and I hope you all save the
day to go and listen to him.

 Aside from the work
in our area, I am happy to say it continues to grow elsewhere. I will be heading
to New Orleans
in the spring to help them begin the ministry. It seems more and more diocese
are asking about it as well as the prayer service.

 Please keep our
upcoming sibling day in your prayers as well.

I am totally in awe
of the work He is doing and so very grateful to Him. I have the great blessing
of seeing so many reach healing and of speaking to so many people who share
their hearts with me. I am so blessed to know you all and so happy to connect
oyu with each other and see how the Lord is working in you and how you also help
one another. That is what it is all about. Reclaiming our children and allowing
Him to heal and work through us for one another.

I have some
exciting news coming up by months end that I am sure you will all
love.

In the meantime
please know you are all in my thoughts and prayers..hope to see you all in
February!