Have you sent the president a valentine?

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm sure most readers have heard about the red envelope project. Send an empty red envelope to the president with a note on the outside that the envelope is empty as a symbol of one dead baby killed by abortion.

Send your valentine to President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20500.

Think of the meanings that can be attached to the word "empty": empty wombs, empty cribs, empty arms, empty classrooms, empty hearts.... I'm sure you can think of others. This project can go on all year as far as I'm concerned. Send envelopes to Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress. Let the red envelopes become a source of pricking consciences. Let the red symbolize the blood of the innocent and the red rose that symbolizes the pro-life movement. Let the mail handlers' hearts be touched as they see these reminders that there are still many people in America who speak out for the unborn.

Next time I'm at the store I'm buying a pack of red envelopes and I'm sending them out on a regular basis. Not only will a red envelope remind the person who receives it that the babies are not forgotten, but it will remind me as well to pray for those whose empty hearts and empty heads let them support the killing of the babies. It will remind me to pray for the mothers who, if not now, will one day hug blankets or stuffed animals, or their pets as they weep for the little ones they will never hold and rock. And I'll pray for the poor little unbaptized babies, begging the Blessed Mother to present them to her Son as little lambs made worthy by sharing in the same bloody death as the Holy Innocents.

Happy Valentine's Day to the faithful, suffering pro-life movement, to the repentant mothers and fathers, and to all who love the unwanted and rejected. Our work is never in vain.