Fort Howard Knights

Been meaning to post this for couple of weeks now and wanted to share this story with you.  I received this inspirational story couple of weeks ago from our Green Bay 40 Days for Life coordinator:

Hey Jim,

This is Ryan Lindner. On every Thursday night from around 11 till about 4 am my buddies and I have been going to pray at the abortion clinic. It started with just 3 of my buddies, but last night we were crowding the sidewalk with 10 people. We start out our night by going to the Saint Anthony of Padua Chapel out in the woods at UWGB and just pray together to prepare ourselves for the night. Last night we had the pleasure of walking with John Cavil right after midnight, and Monsignor Klister drove by and stopped to pray a decade of the rosary with us.  (After all, it’s out of the norm to see 11 young adults walking in the rain, praying to end abortion at midnight).

Before we even finished the creed a lady crossed the street to come see what we were doing and read our signs and after she saw what we were doing she was on the verge of tears and told us that, many years ago she had an abortion. She told us all the emotional pain she went through after this abortion and how sorry she was that she had it and was so moved that we were out there in the pouring rain praying to end abortion. After this confession, Monsignor laid hands on her and prayed a prayer of forgiveness and absolution . There is no doubt in my mind that this was a miracle. To have a large enough group to call Monsignor’s attention to us and have him come pray just one decade of the rosary and for that lady to have come at that time and have the courage to reveal something so intimate. I know this was a miracle.
 
The first Thursday when my buddies and I started this routine I remember asking God to fill the Saint Anthony Chapel with people willing to come with us. Last night there were not enough chairs for us all.  We were packed in that tiny Chapel and we prayed hard there and when we got to the clinic.

Just received this email from one of our Brother Knights in Madison who are particapating in this years 40 Days For Life

I’m sure Steve will have a much better write-up then the quickie e-mail I’m sending, but I thought since the Knights are so involved with 40 Days for Life I’d let you all know.  Steve and I have linked our Facebook page for Vigil for Life with it’s Twitter account, so anything Steve updates on Facebook also gets updated on Twitter.  This afternoon I got a Twitter update from Steve that a baby has been saved at OUR vigil site here in Madison!  Knowing Steve he probably is getting more information right now and will soon be sending it to David Bereit, who will hopefully include this information with his daily, nationally distributed 40DFL e-mail, but we are definitely making a difference!  Praise God!

Adam Morse

Day Seven, received this e-mail from 40Days for Life.

Dear Jack,

I received a report from Houston that was both eye-opening and heartbreaking.

People participating in the 40 Days for Life vigil watched as a young man who appeared to be in tears walked into Planned Parenthood with his girlfriend and her mother.

When they left some time later, he was most certainly crying — and obviously quite upset.

I’ll let one of the prayer vigil participants pick up the story…

I watched him head down the street, alternating

between wiping the tears from his face and punching

the buildings in anger and frustration as he passed

them. Eventually he headed back toward the parking

lot. As he approached, I went to him first. All I

could think to say was that I was so very sorry for

his loss. He began to cry again.

 

Then a truck pulled up leaving the parking lot with

his girlfriend and her mother inside. The girl’s

mother yelled at him to get in and cursed him as he

opened the door. He had one foot inside, then

stepped back out and closed the door. As she drove

away he promptly sat down on the curb and cried

like a baby. Three of us sat down beside him — all

men — and cried with him.

 

Eventually, he began to talk. He was probably in

his very early twenties. He told us that his

girlfriend did not want to keep the child because

she feared they would not be able to provide for

him. He asked her how she could destroy a life

based on a hunch. He told her this child had a

heartbeat and a soul and deserved to live. He even

tried to convince her to, at the very least, put

the child up for adoption.

 

I was struck by the fact that this young man knew

all this simply because his heart told him it was

true. He was wise well beyond his years and he was

hurting terribly.

 

I was struck by the clear reality that fathers have

so little to do with whether their own children

live or die. I also couldn’t help but notice that

despite the high volume of Planned Parenthood

volunteers around, none of them approached him.

 

Before I left him, he stood up to hug me. All I

could tell him was what I truly believed — that

today, his child knows that his/her father fought

for it. That to his child, he is a hero and that

someday he would know that also.

 

Please pray for this young man and others like him.

The tragedy of abortion is real and happening every day. No one knows that better than he.

 

I sincerely hope this young man comes to embrace the exceptional advice he was given; but that will most certainly take time. I cannot even begin to imagine the anguish.

This is a first-person account of what abortion does to fathers. Who knows how many others have walked in his shoes, as there are more than a million abortions every year — and more than 50 million since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that opened the floodgates to abortion on demand.

Let’s pray even harder!

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EWTN NETWORK TO AIR 40 DAYS FOR LIFE SPECIAL TONIGHT!

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Fort Howard Council #5382 will be leading the charge in organizing a promoting local Knights of Columbus Councils participation in this years 40 Days for Life campaign in the Green Bay.

From September 23 – November 2 our community will be one of more then 170 cities in 45 states joining together for the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history — the 40 Days for Life campaign.

For more information visit 40 Days for Life website: http://www.40daysforlife.com/greenbay/

Join Us

If you or your council would like to join other Knights in our area, we will be holding our prayer vigil from 8am to 8pm on the following Wednesdays:

September: Wednesday Sept. 23 (first day of the vigil) and Sept. 30

October: Wednesday Oct., 7, 14, 21, and 28th

If you or your council is interested in walking one or more two hour shifts please contact Brother Knight Jack Wrbanich (920-465-3485) or email knights@kofc5382.org