I've decided to immerse myself in one saint at a time for awhile. My first choice is Padre Pio. I'm on my second book and I absolutely love him! Talk about a man who suffered for the flock. Everyone who ever went to him for confession became his spiritual child. Some of them received visits from him by bi-location even before they met. When they later travelled to the Capuchin monastery at San Giovanni Rotondo they recognized the unknown monk who had appeared to them with messages of hope.
Tomorrow is the feast of a fellow Capuchin, St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen who died in 1622, murdered by Protestants who resented his success at conversion. "The conversion of a Zwinglian minister present" at the brutal attack who observed St. Fidelis' courageous refusal to repudiate his faith "was one of the first fruits of [his] martyrdom."
What a wonder if we emulate his courage. His frequent prayer was to be preserved from lukewarmness. "Woe betide me if I should prove myself but a half-hearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain!"
It's amazingly fitting to celebrate this saint tomorrow as his namesake Fr. Fidelis, a red-rose rescuer, was recently imprisoned with several others in Michigan for defending the lives of babies and offering help to their mothers.
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| Fr. Fidelis, arrested for defending the lives of the innocent. |
I hope to get their address and send them all letters of thanks. Another rescuer, John Hinshaw, is currently in jail in New York. Those imprisoned in Michigan also rescued with him and will no doubt be imprisoned later in that barbaric state when they finish their sentence in Michigan.
Here's a report on the New York rescue:
Rescue Reports: Hinshaw jailed in Long Island
On 24 April 2021 the slaughter of innocents in Manhasset, New York was brought to a halt during a tremendously successful rescue that day by John Hinshaw, Matthew Connolly, Laura Gies, and Fr. Fidelis Moscinski. The latter three have been imprisoned in the people's republic of Michigan since March 31 for a different rescue there.
Most on this list received daily coverage last February of the Manhasset rescue trial in a Mineola, NY courtroom, where charges were dropped against Connolly because he didn't enter the extermination camp itself, but instead locked himself in an adjacent bathroom open to the public, singing hymns. Of interest, it was this that was chiefly responsible for the police shutting down the entire building, extending & very likely saving the lives of the children scheduled to be slaughtered on 24 April.
A jury despicably convicted Gies, Hinshaw & Fr. Fidelis, doubtless celebrating afterwards with a round of Bud Light.
Sentencing was scheduled for last Monday, but since Gies & Fr. Moscinski couldn't make it, their attorney thought a postponement of the sentencing for Hinshaw likely, & inquiries about developments only today came through.
For on Monday Hinshaw was sentenced to jail for one month, &, risibly, two years probation. His imprisonment began that day.
There, with his confreres in Michigan, he upholds the pro-life movement's most salient witness - for by their willingness voluntarily to absorb a small measure of the injustice inflicted on the innocent unborn, not one child in utero anywhere is killed without this public testimony to their value, before both man, & before God.
'For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full...Having been disciplined a little, they will receive a great good, because God tested them, and found them worthy of Himself.' - the Book of Wisdom.
You can write to John Hinshaw at the address below. Hopefully, I will get the address for the three in the Michigan gulag and will post that later:
John Hinshaw
#2023040047
Nassau County Correctional Center
100 Carmen Ave.
East Meadow, New York 11554
I am grateful to be among the alumni of rescuers who served jail time for trying to save babies from being torn limb from limb and save their mothers from a lifetime of regret. I went to jail for the first time in the 1970s. A fellow rescue couple served their time with their newborn infant who was nursing at the time.
May all the saints persecuted and imprisoned for doing God's will intercede for the Red Rose Rescuers currently in prison and restore justice to our blood-soaked country. Please join them virtually, as I will, through prayer. And if you feel called to join or support them in any way, go here.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Our Lady of Life, pray for us.
St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, pray for us.
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.
St. Pio of Petro
All you angels and saints of God, pray for us.
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