Dear
e-link
Member,
The staff of the Office for Social Ministry wishes everyone a
belated happy Fourth of July, and may Our Lord continue to bless
us with the freedom to openly worship our God and serve his
people!
We are pleased to announce that the open support-staff position
in the OSM has
 been
filled. Maria Valencia (see photo at right), parishioner at Our
Lady of Guadalupe in Chula Vista, has accepted the position.
Maria will be in the OSM office mornings, Monday through Friday,
starting Tuesday, July 6th. May her service be fruitful.
We welcome Maria to the Pastoral Center!
As always, we remind current members and inform new members that
past e-link bulletins and this current bulletin can be viewed at
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God Bless
     
Monday, July 5, 2010 e-link Bulletin #87
Table of Contents
Remarks - article from The Southern Cross
on "Healing the Culture - Funding the
Abortion Changes You Outreach"
Key Upcoming Culture-of-Life
Gatherings/Projects (please join us)
1. Mark your calendars... On August 14,
2010, at the Viejas Arena (formerly
the Cox Arena) join with thousands of friends and
parishioners to celebrate
life at the Mother of Life Conference, from 8:00
a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
*****$10 Reduced registration
fee extended until July 15*******
2. Stand with Children Training and
Formation Program continues in
San Diego, Regaining the Offense on Defining Marriage
- the final two
parts of this four-part series will be held on Saturdays
in July and
August, Sponsored by Catholics for the Common Good,
supported by the
Office for Social Ministry
Short Reports on Office for Social
Ministry Related Issues/Events
1. No reports for this month
Web and e-mail-based Resources
- Take a quick Care-Net quiz on
pregnancy care centers. You might
be surprised at how much you'll learn
Local and Regional
Events/Gatherings/Projects
1. Attend the San Diego Friends of Fair Trade
monthly meeting on Wednesday,
August 11, at 6:30 p.m. at the Open Door Book Store in
Pacific Beach
2. "Get Acquainted with Detention Ministry"
monthly information/training
sessions offered by Deacon Walsh at the
Pastoral Center - contact Deacon
Jim Walsh for days and times in July
3. North County prayer witness at the
Carlsbad Planned Parenthood Clinic
scheduled for every third Monday of the month from
10:00 a.m. to
10:30 a.m.
4. Prayerful witness for life at two locations in
San Diego County - every
Saturday and Wednesday at 7340 Miramar Road, just east
of the Pyramid
Building, adjacent to Carroll Road, and the second
Saturday of every
month at 15546 Pomerado Road in Poway
5. St. Dismas Guild sponsors two weekly hours of
prayer for the unborn
in front of the North County Women's Medical Clinic on
Craven Way
6. St. Elizabeth Seton Parish in Carlsbad
also supports the St. Dismas
Guild prayer ministry in front of the North County
Women's Medical
Clinic on Craven Way
7. St. John the Evangelist Parish in Encinitas
Pro-Life Mass and Rosary held
on the first Monday of each month
8. Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood -
First and Grape Street, San Diego –
Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
9. Most Precious Blood Parish in Chula Vista
Rosary Prayer Vigils held every
Wednesday at 8:45 a.m.
10. Prayer partners are needed at 1079 Third Ave.,
suite 3, in Chula
Vista - abortions are performed at this facility - Meet
each Wednesday
from 8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
11. Join neighbors and friends to pray in front of
the new Planned
Parenthood facility in El Cajon on Fridays
and Saturdays
12. The Goretti Group is offering a chastity prayer
gathering and a speaker
training monthly along with a Mass to celebrate
chastity
Article/Statement for July 5, 2010
- Pro-Abortion Groups Want Pregnancy Centers
Removed From Internet
Directories... This tactic lifts so-called
"reproductive choice" and its
proponents to new levels of hypocrisy - article
by Steven Ertelt of
Life News
Remarks - Article on "Healing the
Culture..."
Major Ad Campaign to Promote After-Abortion Web Site
By Denis Grasska
SAN DIEGO — A consortium of Christian churches, businesses and
individuals wants the public to know about a special place where
people can share their painful experiences with abortion.
“Healing the Culture, Funding the ‘Abortion Changes You’
Outreach” was formed in late 2009 to spearhead a fundraising
campaign and purchase advertising in support of the Web site
Abortion Changes You (www.abortionchangesyou.com).
“We would like to make ‘Abortion Changes You’ a household
name in the San Diego region. That’s our goal,” said Kent
Peters, director of the diocesan Office for Social Ministry and
co-chair of Healing the Culture.
Peters said the ads the consortium purchases will promote
Abortion Changes You as “the place where you go to learn about
healing” after an abortion, an apolitical and nonjudgmental site
where people can share their stories and locate community
resources that will assist them in exploring their feelings
about a past abortion.
When asked why Abortion Changes You is worthy of such a
large-scale fundraising campaign, Peters pointed to statistics
that show that one in three women will have an abortion by the
time they are 45 years old.
“We figure that half of the Catholic population in our
diocese has some significant experience with abortion,” Peters
said, noting that abortion affects not only the woman who makes
that choice, but also her relatives, friends and spouse or
boyfriend, not to mention the fathers of aborted children. “If
there’s something that half the diocese needs and 99 percent
don’t know about it, we have an informational nightmare on our
hands.”
Faced with such a major societal problem and confident in the
effectiveness of the Abortion Changes You outreach, Peters said
the decision to launch Healing the Culture was a simple one.
Healing the Culture’s fundraising campaign began last month.
With $10,000 in start-up funds, it printed flyers, donation
envelopes and other materials in both English and Spanish. It
also launched its own Web site at
www.healingtheculturesd.org.
As of June 2, some 22 parishes had pledged to hold special
collections in support of Healing the Culture.
Parish special collections will be taken up between May and
August. Online contributions and donations from major
benefactors will continue to be accepted through August.
Starting in September, the consortium will begin purchasing
advertising online, on the radio, in malls and on various modes
of public transportation, such as city buses and trolleys.
Ten women, all graduates of the Rachel’s Hope after-abortion
healing program, have volunteered to speak at Masses where
special collections are taken up for Healing the Culture.
Rachel’s Hope is among the many local healing resources featured
on the Abortion Changes You Web site.
Lisa Becerra, who had an abortion in 2003 and attended a
Rachel’s Hope retreat in summer 2008, shared her story May 8
during a Mass at Holy Trinity Parish in El Cajon. She is also
scheduled to speak June 26-27 at weekend Masses at St. Patrick
Parish in Carlsbad.
Becerra said she was nervous while preparing for her
presentation and driving to the church, “but during the talk, I
was very much at peace. The congregation was terrific. They
were very polite and [they] listened.”
“This takes a whole lot of courage and humility for these
women to come up and speak,” said Rosemary Benefield, founder of
Rachel’s Hope. “They feel very strongly about needing to get
this message out.”
Peters said it is “amazing” that these women are “willing to
stand up in front of whole congregations” and speak about their
abortion experiences. For some of them, he said, this marks the
first time they “went public.”
“I think it’s a sign because, five or 10 years ago, you would
not have gotten this to happen,” Peters said. “Something’s
moving. Could it be the Holy Spirit?”
For more information on Healing the Culture, visit
www.healingtheculturesd.org or call Kent Peters at (858)
490-8323.
The Southern Cross
This article appears in the June 2010 issue of The Southern
Cross.
Thank you and God bless you. |
Key
Upcoming Culture-of-Life
Gatherings/Projects
Number 1: (Second
Notice)
Join thousands of
friends at the Mother of Life
Conference on Saturday,
August 14, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Viejas Arena at
SDSU (formerly the Cox Arena) at 5500 Canyon Crest Drive, San Diego,
for a celebration of life you will never forget - seating is limited
so register online today
The San Diego Chapter of the Knights of Columbus
are pleased to invite you to attend the Mother of Life Conference on
Saturday August 14, 2010 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. at San Diego State
University Viejas Arena. Featured speakers are: Father Tom
Euteneurer, Father Mitch Pacwa, Lila Rose, and Callista & Newt
Gingrich. Fr. Frank Pavone will celebrate the closing Mass. The
Mother of Life Conference will be promoted throughout California
within the Knights of Columbus organization. More than 3500
attendees are expected.
Special Note...
Due to late delivery of printed flyers to some parishes, the $35 per
person registration fee that expired on July 1st will be honored
until July 15th.
The $45 registration fee per person will
start on July 16, 2010.
FREE admission to pre-registered priests, religious, and
seminarians.
To register online and to print a full colored flyer
for distribution to friends and family, visit:
www.motheroflifeconference.com
Conference Speakers:
 
Closing Liturgy Celebrant:
Experience this much heralded Southern California Pro-Life Event!
Be sure to visit the conference exhibit hall which will feature a
wide array of Culture-of-Life educational materials, music, gift
items, and so much more!
Contact Kent Peters for more information: 858-490-8324
Number 2:
"Stand with Children"
Training and Formation
 Program
- Learn New Positive Advocacy Techniques and Messages on the
Centrality of Marriage - a Four-part Series in San Diego, CA, with
two parts to go.
The final two events will be held at:
John Paul the Great University
10174 Old Grove Road, San Diego, CA 92131
All events: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 10th
Practical Tools Workshop
Participants gain hands-on training in speaking techniques
responding to common arguments from opponents, redirecting
discussions to create more favorable terms for supporting marriage,
and identifying other like-minded people to join the Stand with
Children leadership team.
Saturday, August 21st
Created for Love Retreat
Participants contemplate Trinitarian love as the source and meaning
of the person, marriage, family, and a civilization of love.
Directions:
15 to the Miramar Road/Pomerado Road exit
East on Pomerado Road
Left on Willow Creek Road
Left on Old Grove Road
Registration:
For single event: $30/person; $50/couple
For 4 event series: $100/person; $175/couple
Includes breakfast and lunch
Inquiries: (213) 291-3580
kathleen@ccgaction.org
Click Here to download a flyer/registration form for the
July retreat:
http://www.ccgaction.org/downloads/swctrain/10-07-10SanDiegoPTW.pdf
Short Reports on OSM Related
Issues/Events
Number 1:
No reports this
month
Web and
e-mail-based Resources
For years pregancy care centers have been
viciously attacked by
 the
abortion industry and their political operatives. Why? Because
learning the truth about pregnancy often moves expectant mothers to
care for their young, not destroy them, and put simply, when that
happens, the abortion industry loses customers.
The tactic of choice utilized by abortion proponents has
been to malign and misrepresent both the advertising of and the
services offered by legitimate pregnancy care centers.
Care Net supports a network of more than 1,100
pregnancy centers across North America and operates the Option Line
call center and website that assist women in need around the clock.
Take a quiz on pregnancy care centers (see link just below) offered
by Care Net to learn what these great centers actually offer women,
children, and men in need. After the quiz, visit the Care Net web
site to learn more about how these centers are organized and
operate. There are 18 pregnancy care centers serving in San Diego
and Imperial Counties, several of which are affiliated with Care
Net.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/realquizaboutpregnancycenters
https://www.care-net.org/
New
Local/Regional Events and
Gatherings
If you are planning an event that falls within the mission of social
ministry, send the particulars four to five weeks in advance to the
Office for Social Ministry via e-mail,
osmelink@diocese-sdiego.org. The OSM reserves the right to
publish or not to publish any proposed event information. We hope
this will assist your local efforts to rebuild a culture of life.
1. Attend the San Diego "Friends of Fair Trade" monthly
meeting
San Diego Friends of Fair Trade is a coalition of non-profit
organizations and congregations attempting to advance the cause of
fair trade. They work to insure that all individuals who toil, both
at home and around the world, to provide consumers with commodities
are paid a living wage, one that can sustain a life with dignity.
The next SD Friends of Fair Trade meeting will be on
Wednesday, August 11, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. at the Open Door
Book Store on 4761 Cass St., Pacific Beach - For more information,
please contact Carolyn Lief at
fairtradesandiego@gmail.com. To sign up for the Fair Trade San
Diego newsletter, send a request to
fairtradesandiego@gmail.com
2. Get Acquainted with Detention Ministry in the Diocese
of San Diego
Join Deacon Jim Walsh each month for an Information and Training
Seminar on detention ministry and restorative justice at
the Diocesan Pastoral Center, 3888 Paducah Drive, San Diego, 92117
Visit the OSM Restorative Justice Web site:
www.diocese-sdiego.org/restore
For the month of July...
- Contact Deacon Jim Walsh for days and times (see just below)
Sorry, no walk-ins. Contact Deacon Jim Walsh for reservations or
questions: 858-490-8375 or e-mail Deacon Jim at jwalsh@diocese-sdiego.org
3. North-County prayer witness at the Carlsbad Planned
Parenthood Clinic
North County parishioners meet the third Monday of every month
from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. to peacefully pray the rosary in front
of the Carlsbad Planned Parenthood Clinic. The clinic is located at
1820 Marron Rd. (in the shopping center just west of Plaza Camino
Real Mall). For more information, contact Jahna White of St.
Margaret Parish at 760-586-6356.
4. Prayerful witness for life at two locations (7340 Miramar
Road in San Diego and 15546 Pomerado Road in Poway) in San Diego
County
Helpers of God’s Precious Infants weekly rosary prayer vigil from
8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. every Saturday and Wednesday at 7340 Miramar
Road, directly above Metro Flooring in the complex with the Pyramid
Building, adjacent to Carroll Road. Prayer warriors also needed as
early as 7:30 a.m.
Call Roger Lopez at 619-276-7525 for more information.
Second Saturday of the month: 20 decades of the Rosary are prayed
in procession past 4 clinics following the 7:30 a.m. Mass, 15546
Pomerado Road, Poway. For more information, call 858-748-2109.
5. St. Dismas Guild sponsors two weekly hours of prayer for
the unborn in North County
Join members of St. Dismas Guild for a rosary picket at North
County Women's Medical Clinic, 120 S. Craven Way, San Marcos,
(across from Cal State San Marcos), Tuesdays, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00
a.m.
The Guild also sponsors prayer (the rosary) in front of PayLess
at Mission Avenue and Escondido Blvd., 347 W. Mission, on Thursdays,
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. For information on these prayer vigils,
call 760-751-8541.
6. St. Elizabeth Seton Parish in Carlsbad has a tri-weekly
prayer ministry in front of the North County Women's Medical Clinic
on Craven Way - San Marcos on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Please join the St. Elizabeth Seton "Life Matters" Culture of Life
prayer vigils at 10:00 a.m. to Noon every Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday morning at "North County Women's Medical Clinic": 120 Craven
Road, San Marcos -
http://www.womensmedicalclinic.com/. Those interested can
carpool from St. Elizabeth Seton's upper parking lot at 9:30
a.m. Those who do not want to carpool, please feel free to meet us
at the Abortion Center at 10:00 a.m. or at any time between 10:00
a.m. and Noon. These vigils are not confrontational. We give
witness by being present in prayer and entrust our message to the
Blessed Mother. Contact Gene:
ejzoval@yahoo.com or 760-804-9656 for more information.
7. St. John the Evangelist Parish in Encinitas Pro-Life Mass
and Rosary held on the first Monday of each month
The first Monday of every month is designated Pro-Life
Monday at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1001 Encinitas Blvd,
Encinitas. The 8:00 a.m. Mass will be followed by a Rosary for
Life.
8. Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood - First and
Grape Street, San Diego – Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Prayer vigil contacts: Luis Mendoza 619-259-3906 or Roger Lopez
619-276-7525. Rosary processions the first Saturday of every month
from Our Lady of the Rosary, Date & State St., after the 7:30 a.m.
Mass.
9. Most Precious Blood Parish Rosary Prayer Vigils held on
Wednesdays each week
The Pro-Life Prayer Group from Most Precious Blood sponsors a
Rosary Prayer Vigil in front of "A Woman's Choice" Clinic abortion
facility at 1550 Broadway, Chula Vista, every Wednesday at 8:45
a.m. For more information, please call Shirley Henry at
619-420-7096 or Luis Mendoza at 619-259-3906.
10. Prayer partners are needed at the office of Feliciano
Rios M.D., 1079 Third Ave., suite 3, in Chula Vista - Dr. Rios
performs abortions at his medical facility - Meet each Wednesday
from 8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Please contact Luis Mendoza, a Missionary of The Gospel of Life
Lay Associate, at 619-259-3906, with questions or to share interest
in this prayer ministry.
11. Pray in front of the Planned Parenthood facility located
at 1685 East Main, just off the Greenfield Drive exit in El Cajon -
join friends and neighbors
According to the PP website, chemical (RU-486) abortions
only are done at this location - not surgical abortions. They do
refer women for abortions to their surgical center on First Ave.
Join the group each Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and Saturday
from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Contact:
mfowler@nethere.com
12. The Goretti Group offers chastity prayer and speaker
training monthly
Every First Friday of the month, the Goretti Group
will celebrate a St. Maria Goretti Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary,
1654 State Street, at 6:15 p.m.
Every Second Monday of the month: ChasteMasters Meeting at Our
Lady of the Rosary, Giovanni Room, 7:00 p.m. Please join us in
prayer, a roundtable discussion, and providing feedback as chastity
speakers refine their talks.
For more info please visit:
www.thegorettigroup.org or call David at: 619-733-8439
Watch for OSM e-link bulletin
#88 around Thursday, August 5, 2010
Article/Statement for July 5, 2010
Pro-Abortion Group Wants Pregnancy Centers
Removed From Internet Directories
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
July 1, 2010
As the founder and Editor of LifeNews.com, Steven Ertelt has
provided timely pro-life news to the pro-life community across the
country and around the world for more than fifteeen years.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- They say they
support choice, but the pro-abortion activists at NARAL want to
leave women in unplanned pregnancy situations with one option:
abortion. In a letter to its members today, NARAL president Nancy
Keenan announced she is asking two Internet directories to remove
pregnancy center listings.
If NARAL is successful, that means millions of
people who visit the two prominent directories every year will not
see listings for pregnancy centers that provide women with abortion
alternatives.
"Today, my team sent our letter with more than
59,000 signatures to YellowPages.com and SuperPages.com asking them
to remove misleading CPC ads from their sites," Keenan said this
afternoon. "But anti-choice CPCs are still blanketing buses,
billboards, and even the airwaves with their falsehoods."
LifeNews.com has contacted but not received a
response from representatives of both directories to determine
whether they will bend to NARAL's pressure to remove these pro-woman
agencies from their listings.
Even if NARAL is successful in censoring information
about pregnancy help centers in the directories, they want to go
further.
"Now we must take the next step. We need a federal
bill to put an end to deceptive CPC ads everywhere," Keenan said,
using false claims to support such a bill. "Many CPCs do whatever it
takes to block women from choosing abortion. We've heard it all:
lies about abortion and condoms, guilt-trips, and harassing
follow-up phone calls."
Keenan is promoting the so-called Stop Deceptive
Advertising for Women's Services Act, filed by pro-abortion Rep.
Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, in the U.S. House. The
measure would have the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fine pregnancy
centers for supposedly engaging in false advertising.
"My heart sinks every time I hear about a woman who
was forced to hear lies and lectures from a CPC when what she needed
was the truth. The Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services
Act can protect women seeking real health care from being tricked
into going to an anti-choice CPC," Keenan says.
Kristin Hansen, the vide president for
communications at Care Net, a national network of more than 1,100
pregnancy centers, talked with LifeNews.com last month about other
NARAL attacks on pregnancy centers.
"Abortion advocacy groups like NARAL have been
working hard this year to perpetuate the 'boogeyman' idea that the
work of pregnancy centers is harming women," she said.
"Every day, there’s a new blog post, video,
'undercover report,' or now, here’s a flashy quiz to help build an
email list and raise money. These scare tactics are riddled with
false accusations and are meant to deter women from visiting
pregnancy centers for help," she added.
As a response, Care Net released its own REAL Quiz
about Pregnancy Centers to counter NARAL's negativity with the
truth.
Hansen says most pregnancy center clients appreciate
the help and support and the ones speaking out against such centers
are typically pro-abortion staffers and volunteers claiming to have
been treated poorly.
"If you take a closer look, you see that the
negative information about pregnancy centers comes from the same
people who are usually a staff person, volunteer, or member of an
abortion advocacy group. The complaints do not come from actual
clients, who regularly give high approval ratings of the pregnancy
center they visited," she said.
The attacks may be backfiring as Care Net is
expanding its outreach to new communities.
"Despite these ongoing attacks from NARAL, a growing
number of people are getting excited about the compassionate work of
pregnancy centers. Care Net sees wonderful doors opening this year
as more community leaders are stepping up to open new pregnancy
centers in cities where there are few or none," Hansen said.
"Every day, someone’s heart is touched with the
vision of reaching out to women facing unplanned pregnancies with
practical help and emotional support. There's no new mean-spirited
quiz or negative campaign that can prevent the growth of this
positive movement in the hearts of volunteers across America," she
concluded.
ACTION: Contact the directors at
http://www.yellowpages.com/about/contact-us and
http://www.superpages.com/about/feedback.html and tell them to
ignore NARAL's request to remove pregnancy center ads.
Related web sites:
CareNet Quiz -
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/realquizaboutpregnancycenters
Care Net - http://www.care-net.org
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