Friday, November 28, 2008

Catholic activist Sue Lopez died; please pray for her soul...

I ask your prayers for a very dedicated and faithful Catholic woman from San Diego, California, Sue Lopez, who died on November 23, feast of Christ the King.

She was an ardent pro-life crusader in San Diego.

Those who knew her say she was truly an inspiration.

She was always very supportive of America Needs Fatima rosary rallies and events, and helped to organize a big procession at the Cathedral for the miraculous International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima last January.

Frequently she organized processions to the abortion clinics and had a statue of Our Lady of Fatima lead it.

When Fatima Custodian, Joseph Ferrara was in San Diego recently, she expressed the desire to have the statue of Our Lady of Fatima come to her home.

What was unique about her was that she organized protests and events that confronted the enemies of the Church, and she never backed down.

A week before the Prop 8 vote someone slashed the tires on her vans because she had signs in her yard.  This had happened before, so she knew it was possible again.

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I searched for Sue Lopez on my blog and found this article about her diligent and courageous action to protest the blasphemous theater play "Corpus Christi."   It is a good lesson to us all.  

May the Good Lord and Lady who Sue so bravely defended during her life on earth, give her eternal life and rest in heaven -- we ardently hope and pray!!!

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Inspiring, effective and prayerful protest against blasphemous "Corpus Christi" play...

From Sue Lopez:

On Friday, Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I was notified after Mass by a fellow Mass attendee that the blasphemous play Corpus Christi had been showing in San Diego at the *Diversionary Theatre for the month of May and was ending on the weekend of May 31/June 1st.

On June 1st, the first day of the month we dedicate to the Sacred Heart, a public Rosary of reparation was held at the sight of this evil. Many of us were somewhat anxious about confronting the homosexual community as they attended this atrocity, but our Mother in heaven transformed our fears into the overwhelming desire to console Our Lord.

Many not wanting to come alone brought friends and family with them, adding to our numbers.

Over 50 faithful Catholics publicly defended Our Lord against the assaults on His purity in “Corpus Christi” which portrays Him as a gay man having a love affair with Judas in modern times in the city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

The Rosary warriors gathered across the street from the Diversionary Theatre at 4545 Park Blvd. in University Heights in two rows along the sidewalk and prayed the Rosary interspersed with beautiful heavenly hymns that filled the street honoring the Blessed Virgin and praising her Son.

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima on a platform was held by several people throughout the prayer vigil which lasted from 6:00 to 7:00pm. Participants held homemade signs that read, “Stop blaspheming Our Lord, NOW”. Others held a large banner that read “We are praying for an end to blasphemy.”

We began by asking our Guardian Angels to join us in the Rosary and for the protection of St. Michael. It turned out that the last (7:00pm) showing was canceled. Apparently the 2:00 showing occurred as scheduled.

When one of the participants had called the box office on Friday, the person answering referred to the Sunday night show as if it was still scheduled. Due to the cancellation, the hour was peaceful as we were met with very little opposition barring a few yells from cars going by.

Most people slowed down to read our signs and think about their meaning. What a blessing from Our Lady to have one less performance of this atrocity!

My son recalled Tim Staples, a Catholic apologist, saying that the worst heretics of history attacked all kinds of doctrines but they never dared to attack Jesus’ chastity. Now we are fighting a much greater evil as Jesus’ chastity is up for grabs and is blatantly being attacked in The Last Temptation of Christ, The Da Vinci Code and for the last ten years in Corpus Christi among others.

According to St. Louis de Montfort on the exponential power of prayer, having over 50 people praying, adding to that everyone’s Guardian Angels (100 people/angels praying multiplied by 100 Rosaries credited to each one) and each praying three Rosaries - over 30,000 Rosaries were lifted up to heaven in reparation for the evil done at this location.

Thank you so much to everyone who came to pray this evening especially Fr. Nabil Mouannes of St. Ephrem’s, Deacon Tim Treadwell and the students at John Paul the Great as well as all the faithful prayer warriors and many who participated for the first time in a public Rosary.

Thank you also for everyone who prayed for our protection and this intention from home. It was especially important to counter this evil on a Sunday, the worst day to commit sin – especially to blaspheme Our Lord. Fr. Mouannes gave us his blessing in closing and encouraged everyone to continue to defend our Faith in a public way.

* The Diversionary Theater has built a comfortable niche as San Diego’s most established gay and lesbian theatre” --Sign on San Diego

The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture provides major support for Diversionary Theatre.

---www.diversionary.org

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