Our Lady of Guadalupe Helpers Vigil and Dr. Chu's Memorial mass

J.M.J.+

Dear Fellow Helpers of God's Precious Infants,

Please read and note the format change for this month.

The Monthly Prayer Vigil for December will be held this coming Saturday, December 12th on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, outside Planned Parenthood’s state Headquarters at 345 Whitney Ave in New Haven. The Prayer Vigil will begin with the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at 7:30 AM at Saint Mary's Church in New Haven on Hillhouse Ave. It will be followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for half of an hour and concluded with a closing Benediction at approximately 8:30 am.

We will leave Saint Mary's Church while praying the Rosary directly after Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Those who cannot process with us and wish to partake in the vigil will stay behind for Adoration and closing Benediction. We will not be reconvening at St. Joseph’s parking lot as regularly scheduled, but will be processing on foot directly from St. Mary’s to Planned Parenthood where God’s precious infants are scheduled to be killed. We will be lead by the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and escorted by the New Haven Police who will block off the intersections so we can safely process in the street.

After we have concluded our prayer vigil at Planned Parenthood we will then process on foot directly back to St. Mary’s Church where we will partake in the memorial Mass for Dr. Jim Chu which will begin at 10:00 am. Representing Jim as the founder and director of the Helpers in New Haven and to honor him as well as Our Lady( of course), we will process into the church and place the Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the side of the Sanctuary. Paul Chu has arranged reserved seating in the front rows for all Helpers who will attend.
The change in schedule is to accommodate the 10:00 am memorial Mass for Dr. Chu whom we all love. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen
May God bless you,
Mike and Kerry

Saint Nicholas Pray For A Miracle For The Unborn Children You Love So Much!

J.M.J.+

Dear Fellow Helpers,
I am emailing in regards to our next peaceful prayer vigil which will take place on Saturday, December 5th on the Vigil of the Feast of St. Nicholas ( Patron Saint of Children) outside Planned Parenthood (345 Whitney Avenue New Haven) from 8am until 12 pm noon, the hours which the babies are scheduled to be killed by abortion. Please join us to take an hour of prayer. Abortions also take place on Wednesday from 11-3pm as well as Friday from 8 am-12 pm noon.
May God bless you,
Mike and Kerry
Saint Nicholas Pray for our Children at Planned Parenthood!


Senate Passes Amendment that Could Mandate Abortion Coverage in Insurance Plans

By John Jalsevac
December 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Senate on Thursday approved the Mikulski amendment by a vote of 61-39. All Republicans except Senators Vitter, Snowe and Collins voted against the amendment, and all Independents and Democrats except Senators Nelson (NE) and Feingold voted for it.
Pro-life leaders opposed the amendment over concerns that it provides authority that could be used to mandate abortion coverage in private insurance plans.
Specifically, the amendment states that anything classified as preventive care or screenings for women by the Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA) would become a mandated covered service. However, if the HRSA were to recommend abortion as a preventive care, insurance plans would have to cover abortion.
In a letter to Congress before the vote, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) explained its opposition to the Mikulski amendment: "If Congress were to grant any Executive Branch entity sweeping authority to define services that private health plans must cover, merely by declaring a given service to constitute 'preventive care,' then that authority could be employed in the future to require all health plans to cover abortions."
"Our concern on this point is not hypothetical," urged the NRLC letter. "Prominent pro-abortion advocates are already on record discussing abortion as a category of 'preventive health care.'"
In fact, as NRLC points out in its letter, a similar amendment that was proposed in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pension was backed by a gamut of pro-abortion groups, including Planned Parenthood and NARAL. "A July 8, 2009 letter from these groups asserted that by allowing the Health Resources and Services Administration to issue binding guidelines on preventive services, the 'unique preventive health needs of women' would be addressed," said NRLC. Pro-life organizations had proposed that the amendment should be modified to ensure that abortion coverage would not be mandated.
Americans United for Life (AUL) attorney Mary Harned wrote that while her group "strongly supports preventative care for women," "the Mikulski Amendment should be amended to include language prohibiting abortion from being included in the HRSA guidelines."
However, no such changes were made before the amendment was passed.