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About Us
Who
are you?
Why
the Sorrowful Mother?
Why
do you pray?
What
do you pray for?
Who
are you?
We are the Servants of
the Sorrowful Mother. We are the prayer arm of the Crusade
for the Church. We invite people to pray for three basic
things: First for their own sanctification; second,
for those those who are spreading the Theology of the
Body, specifically the Missionaries of the Eucharist;
and last for those who are receiving the Good News about
sex, their bodies and their lives in Christ.
In order to effectively
evangelize, we must operate from this basic yet demanding
principle: "you can't give what you don't have."
In order to spread the Theology of the Body, you have
to live it. In order to live it, you have to have a
deep and personal relationship with Jesus Christ and
His Bride.
You can pledge prayers
in two basic ways; First, include the Missionaries in
your normal prayer routine. For example, we ask you
to include the Missionaries in your intentions when
you go to Mass, pray the Rosary, fast, etc. It is beneficial
to us if we know you are doing this- it is a consolation
to those who are on the streets.
Second, we send you prayer
reminders either to your email, your phone, mailbox,
or pda. The amount of prayers you recieve is up to you.
We have several different levels you can choose from.
If you are at your computer every day, you might want
to receive our daily prayers or our devotional novenas,
consecrations, and spiritual exercises. Otherwise you
can choose to pray for a Missionary every month or take
part in our "Crusade Day" prayer on the 5th
of every month.
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Why
the Sorrowful Mother?
The root of the word "com-passion"
is "suffer-with". There is no one is more
compassionate than Our Lady, because no human suffered
more with Jesus than His mom. She traveled to Egypt
with Him, saw Him rejected, saw Him crucified, and die
a most gruesome death.
Likewise, she is alive
in heaven with Our Lord. She goes with us when we pray
at the abortion mill and fight all the injustices of
our time.
There is plenty to be
sorrowful about. "Christian, realize your dignity"!
and how easily we degrade ourselves and eachother.
We have a great Advocate
in Our Lady of Sorrows. Ultimatley, we have to go to
the Cross like Mary, keep our eyes on our Savior, and
if we finish the race with endurance we will enter the
Kingdom of Heaven to fix our eyes on the Beatific Vision
with Our Lady in Heaven!
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Why
do you pray?
It is through faithfulness
in prayer that the Culture of Life will live, through
a lack of prayer that it will die. The hearts of the
faithful must not grow weak, looking perpetually into
the face of God, to Christ Jesus hanging upon the cross,
in the spirit of his most blessed and sorrowful Mother.
We must become servants, slaves, soldiers of our Lady,
unceasing in prayer for all of her children.
Without this campaign of
prayer, the Crusade will be, and should be, reduced
to dust. Each day must be seen as yet another opportunity
to petition our Lord for his grace to pour forth upon
us and our impoverished culture.
Too often we spend our
time and energy fighting each other. We see the "pro-aborts"
as our enemy and we are the good guys. We often spend
a lot of time and energy fighting each other. There
are some who blame the Church for not doing more to
end the evil in our time.
While we must never compromise
our 100% pro-life principles, we do well to remember
our only enemy is Satan.
Satan is at the root of
the lies those poor people believe. Instead of rebuking
the darkness in their soul, we ought to light a candle
and notice how the darkness disappears!
Every single human being
is on the same "side"- the side of being created,
redeemed and potentially sanctified by God. We are all
sons and daughters of the Most High: that includes the
most influential people who promote the gravest evils
of our time.
Our job is to pray and
work for the day when the scales are removed from their
eyes and hearts. We pray and work so they may join us
in spreading the Kingdom of God on earth and we might
both enjoy the delights of Heaven.
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What
do you pray for?
There is no shortage of
things to pray for. Were that we were able to take the
Apostle's charge to "pray without ceasing"
and do simply that, having to give no care to peripheral
concerns such as eating, sleeping, and labouring, there
would need never be a moment of hesitation searching
for something more to offer up to God. One could spend
a lifetime praising and thanking God for the abundant
spiritual graces, not to mention temporal gifts, that
He continually pours out for our benefit. Given another
lifetime, one could spend it in reparation for sins,
and in entreating God to have mercy on us. Our very
lives are to be prayers.
We are an apostolate of
prayer for those who understand the necessity of the
mission of the Crusade. We have been blessed with the
opportunity to be lights in a dismally dark world. Our
culture is sick, and we feel it our duty to help individuals
who may not even know they are sick to exchange poison
for medicine. Lust oozes from every cultural pore. Men,
women and children are degraded by others and themselves.
Thus we pray for chastity. We pray for our neighbors'
realization that there is something better, something
beautiful, something worth living and, for that matter,
dying, for. We pray for the application of the late
John Paul II's Theology of the Body, for this is what
will illumine in the minds of society what they are
for. Sex, personhood, and life itself will be recognized
as beautiful things.
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