May 9 -- Come and Pray For God’s Mercy Where "The Pill" Began

On May 9, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Enovid as the first prescription oral contraceptive. "The Pill" has proved to be one of the most blatant examples of our failure to trust in God’s Divine Providence for each and every person. The Pill has also been called an assault on women's health experts and even by those involved in developing and testing the drug.  Please join in marking this anniversary and embracing God’s Divine Plan through a 9 day period of prayer, fasting and repentance.

How can you participate? On May 1, The Feast of Saint Joseph The Worker, begin to fast and pray the prayer to Jesus in the womb and Scripture from Philippians found below: at home, at work, with your family and loved ones, alone... wherever you find yourself. Surrender yourself to God’s Infinite Love and Mercy. Reflect on His Omnipotence. Beg Him to help you in your faith and complete trust in Him. By continuing this practice you will strengthen not only yourself but the entire Body of Christ.

Join us on Tuesday, May 9. Together we will gather in prayer at the site where "The Pill" was first researched and developed at the behest of Margaret Sanger: the former Worcester Foundation for Medical Research in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, presently the University of Massachusetts / Shrewsbury. 

Bring your family, your friends, and most importantly, your conviction strengthened by your prayer and fasting, that God alone is to be completely trusted. Remember that we are gathering not in protest – signs are not appropriate here. Rather we will gather in communal prayer, where nothing but a sincere heart is necessary.

If you seek God’s mercy... if you seek the Grace to increase your belief in His unconditional love... if you seek the grace necessary for complete trust in His Divine Providence… then please join us. There is so much to share.

The prayer event will take place at the University of Massachusetts, 200 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Directions:

From the East: Mass Pike west to Exit 12. (Route 9/Framingham). Route 9 West to Shrewsbury. At AMF Town & Country Bowling Alley take a right at light onto Oak Street; travel to the end of Oak Street to the main entrance of the University of Massachusetts.

From the West: Mass Pike to Exit 10 (Auburn). Route 290/Worcester to Exit 22/Main Street, Shrewsbury. Bear right at ramp to West Main Street. Right at Gage Lane, right on Maple Avenue. Travel ½ mile to 200 Maple Avenue.

From the North: Route 495 South to Route 290 (Worcester). Route 290 to Exit 23 (Route 140 South, Shrewsbury). Route 140 South to Main Street. Right on Main Street. Bear left at fork (Maple Avenue). Travel 1 mile to 200 Maple Avenue.

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Here is the text of the above mentioned prayers:

Philippians 2:6-11

Though he was in the form of God, Jesus did not deem equality with God something to be grasped at. Rather, he emptied himself and took the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of man. He was known to be of human estate, and it was thus that he humbled himself, obediently accepting even death, death on a cross! Because of this, God highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name above every other name, so that at Jesus’ name every knee must bend in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, and every tongue proclaim Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Novena Prayer in honor of Jesus in the womb

Eternal Father, by the imprisonment of the infant Jesus in the womb of Mary deliver me from the chains of sin and of hell. And thou, Mary, Mother of God, help me! Thou hast in thy womb the Son of God imprisoned and confined, as, therefore, Jesus is thy prisoner. He will do everything that thou tell him. Tell him to pardon me; tell him to make me holy.  Help me, my Mother, for the sake of the favor and honor that Jesus Christ conferred upon thee by dwelling within thee for nine months. Amen.

St. Alphonsus de Ligouiri
Doctor of the Church


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