Rachel's Vineyard

There's lots of opportunities to do that, whether it might just be through your shopping bag, pro-life shopping bag, pro-life t-shirt to the gym, those kind of things.

I know at Last March for Life, we had a lot of Rachel's Vineyard pens that people picked up.

And I just think just something as simple as that is like, you know, if you're signing something with a pen or passing it on to somebody, how many times does someone say, oh, have you got a pen? You know, if it's a pen with a pro-life message on it, If you can't get them from an organisation, you could probably design one yourself, not pretty easily online nowadays.

There's just so many little things that we can do that don't necessarily take any extra time, which is what people are so frightened of nowadays because everyone's so busy.

Maybe they're still in a bit of a spirit of denial about it.

Those people, I think, are maybe particularly prone to the spirit of discouragement.

um i know from talking to to rachel who runs rachel's vineyard in the uk and and you know her echoing this from the many um women and men that she supports um but there can often be this feeling of like i've i failed as a mom i failed as a dad and that that's irredeemable you know which of course comes from satan you know and so i think those who've had abortions maybe need to be particularly aware of that spirit attacking them and trying to turn that around.

And in fact, actually, I was just thinking of something, Father Toby, that you shared.

The other big change, I think, is so many women and men have been so badly hurt by abortion.

And Sister Andrea, one of our sisters, her kind of speciality is post-abortion healing through Rachel's Vineyard and through Grief to Grace as well, because it's all connected.

As we're becoming more aware as well of mental health issues and as we're becoming more aware of how things damage us, even when we don't think they do, so things we thought were good for us, we're realizing were not that good for us.

So I think all of that is changing.

I saw this directly.

I mean, you know, I, I, I, uh, oversee the Rachel's Vineyard ministry.

It's the largest ministry in the world for healing after abortion.

And I was also friends and, and, and helped on their journeys of conversion Norma McCorvey, the, the Jane Roe of Roe v.

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If you've, if you had an abortion, Rachel's Vineyard is a phenomenal-

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... uh, three-day ministry retreat.

You just go online.

Again, we'll have Suzanne put it, put it in, in the notes.

But Rachel's Vineyard is a great way of, of, uh, bringing about healing and experiencing God's mercy because, um, two things can happen.

One is people can say, "Oh, it's just a simply, simple little procedure." Well, we know it's not.

And so these are things that I experienced, and I came back as a born-again Christian in 1983, confessed my sins, repented, turned away from them.

God healed me, and that's the principle of Rachel's Vineyard and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

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Once you're healed, you can begin to, uh, uh, just tell the truth and shame the devil.

I mean, this is insanity.

And, and look into Rachel's Vineyard.

Look into the healing, the healing of this trauma Of this horrible scourge that is upon this world, which is abortion and, and the destruction of human life and the destruction of, of, of young people, babies, and the destruction of old people and the destruction of people who are handicapped.

This is happening, my brothers and sisters, in this good little, nice little tidy world that we're in.

And I know there's a lot of wounded people out there.

There's Rachel's Vineyard for that.

Rachel's, the, the Project Rachel that can help people who are post-abortive, who have had abortions, abortions in their family.

This, the scourge that is upon the earth, right? Since the beginning of time, and now they've made it so easy, right? You just do it, you, you, the at-home type thing.