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"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life-- what you shall eat or drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."

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This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, here we go again, Alabama leads in certain things that the rest of the nation follows. Yesterday, May 1, the Alabama House passed a bill that, in essence, annihilates abortion. Its the toughest law ever been passed by one of the states. Other states are trying to do things. Alabama wants to counter whats going on in New York because theyre saying they can do abortions even after the birth of the baby.

We attribute this to Our Lady in many ways because She appeared here and whats taken place. Weve talked last week about Boston, what broke there because Our Lady appears there every day with Ivan. And so, theres a result in seeing in Alabama what Our Ladys done here. We have felt that for a long time. It is the most Biblical place in the United States of America according to a Pew Survey. So theres a lot to say about that, a lot to say about Our Lady. But this bill was not just passed to stop the abortion. It was done to be defiant against Roe v. Wade. The vote was 74 to 3. So, almost nobody opposed it. The one who did oppose it was a Democrat who was Louise Alexander. He challenged it saying, Nobody knows what a woman goes through. I know you dont because youre not a woman. You dont know why I want to have an abortion. It could be because of my health; it could be for many reasons. My choice is just as important. I just want to say one thing until all of you walk in a womans shoes. You all dont know.

So, this overwhelmingly was won into a bill in the House, but its purpose really is to challenge in the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade. Because we already have some strong restrictions on abortion now in Alabama. But what I want to bring up to you is there was another representative named John Rogers who represents Jefferson County which is where Birmingham, Alabama is, where you will have more people for abortion. And we got a clip of what hes saying, and its pretty astounding. These kinds of people dont represent Alabama. And hes only one of three that voiced this insane, crazy, all the above you can say about it. Heres his clip.

[CLIP]

All Im saying to you, it ought to be a womans choice. Im not about to be a male telling a woman what to do with her body. She has a right to make a decision herself. [Inaudible] Some kids arent wanted. So you kill them now, or you kill them later. You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved. You send them to the electric chair. So you kill them now, or kill them later. But the bottom line is that I think we shouldnt be making this decision.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Wow. What such wisdom. Theyre going to kill them anyway in an electric chair, lets just kill them now. Its crazy. Beyond. Insane. But also hes saying from a perspective that hes admitting that a woman who is having an abortion is going to raise a killer anyway, or a criminal. And there are stats that support that. Not that we support what hes saying, but there is a truth in this. You would think you would never hear somebody say this. He said, quote, Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later. You bring them into the world unwanted, unloved. You send them to the electric chair. So you kill them now, or you kill them later. Thats the bottom line Amazing.

But lets dissect this. Lets understand this in another way. The Bible relates to us that all evil works toward good for those who love God. We literally have babies in Heaven that, had they been born, that would be in hell. Every aborted baby has made it to the light. And Our Lady said that. She was asked by Mirjana, I think it was, about the babies who are aborted. She says, They are with me. So, the good out of this great evil is that these people, what this wicked man said yesterday, kill them now or kill them later, which is wrong, there is something that we have to look at from another point that these people who do these things will be raised in troubled monsters.

Im not saying that in justification. Im not saying hes right. But from his prospective he says something that works toward good even though its evil and that we can never be for it. And our read relates to this today.

[RUTH]

This is taken from the book called Freakanomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

What sort of woman was most likely to take advantage of the Roe v. Wade? Very often, she was unmarried or in her teens or poor and sometimes all three. What sort of future would her child have had? One study has shown that the typical child who went unborn in the earliest years of legalized abortion would have been 50% more likely than average to live in poverty. He would have also been 60% more likely to grow up with just one parent. These two factors, childhood poverty and a single parent household are among the strongest predictors that a child will have a criminal future.

Growing up in a single parent home roughly doubles a childs propensity to commit crime. So does having a teenage mother. Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality. In other words, the very factors that drove millions of American women to have an abortion also seem to predict that their children, had they been born, would have led unhappy and possibly criminal lives. To be sure the legalization of abortion in the United States had a mired of consequences. Infanticide fell dramatically. So did shotgun marriages as well as the number of babies put up for adoption which has led to the boom in the adoption of foreign babies.

Conceptions rose by nearly 30%, but births actually fell by 6% indicating that many women were using abortion as a method of birth control, a crude and drastic source of insurance policy.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

What was just read says, Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality. This shows maternal need of a child, lack of education, raises up children who they themselves will repeat the errors of the mother. They say maternal. They didnt say fatherly. This points that the problem today is in womanhood. Weve talked about this forever. How to Change Your Husband is about that. Its in the womans hands. You say, What does the guy have to do with it? If she wasnt in consent, this wouldnt be taking place. So, can we say this is a blessing in disguise? No. We cant put it in that context, but we can have a perspective of this that God is populating Heaven with these people because, even if theyre raised that way, theyre going to put them in a path that loses their soul.

And so, this Rogers guy, sits there and says, By being born you send them to the electric chair. So you can kill them now or you can kill them later. Amazing the mentalities we have. But let me tell you something else about John Rogers who said this. He goes and is a member of St. Marys Catholic Church. So, see, this is as much of a Church problem as it is a people problem. And we changed the roles of the genders, what a husbands supposed to be, a fathers supposed to be, and the familys wrecked. And this is the fruit of all these things. And many people who have nothing to do with abortion, physically, but they have contributed to it.

Divorce contributes to this factor. We all have to look at ourselves in a lot of ways. My point Im getting to is thank God were going now to the Supreme Court with this law for things to change. But nothings going to change if the desire is still in the heart of the maternal mother who wished she could kill her child. Because, if you have it in your heart, its the same thing as physically doing the act. So, other religions say dont do the act. Christianity teaches not just dont do the act, dont have it in your heart. For if you have it in your heart, then you commit it. So, this evil, evil sin has a whole another side to it. And thanks to John Rogers, the Catholic who needs to be ex-communicated out of the Church. So, the pulpits are weak, his pastors not doing anything about it, and we have these kinds of things being said.

[RUTH]

Were going to go to Medjugorje live at this time where were going to speak to one of our Community members. We now have the Mission House open full time for the season. We also have the pilgrimage group there. And being in Medjugorje in the Mission House, we have many people who come in and speak to us from around the world, the different issues that are taking place in their country. And just as a Friend of Medjugorje speaking today about whats taking place about abortion, there are many people particularly from Ireland that have come in and have spoken about the difficulties that their country is going through right now, especially with the last two referendums. One of our Community members spoke to a couple of Irish women the other day, and shes going to give us a recap of what that discussion was.

[JESSICA]

Hi, from Medjugorje. We are definitely have had a lot of traffic since the Mission House has been opened and just to jump into what a Friend of Medjugorje is talking about today as far as the abortions. We had an Irish woman come in yesterday afternoon. And she had been speaking out against the recent Irish referendum about abortion. So, she was relaying to me some of the stories from her country, and she began with one that had happened in her own town. Amnesty International had set up a table there and they were trying to raise funding for women in another impoverished country. But, she wanted to know what they were there for, so she went up to the table and just asked one of the young girls there, What is Amnesty International about? What do you do? And the girl wasnt sure how to respond and she said, Well, what do you mean? And so, the woman said, Well, what do you stand for? Do you stand for life? And the Amnesty International young girl said, What? And then she stood up and yelled at this woman, this Irish woman and said, Get away from here! Leave here. Leave this place. Get away! And shes hollering at the top of her lungs telling this woman to get away, shouting that this woman is against abortion. This woman is against abortion. Get away! Get out of here.

So, the Irish woman stays there and says to this young girl, she says, This is my country. This is my town. And this is my street. And Im not going anywhere. So, all the other Amnesty International volunteers are watching this scene unfold. And another older volunteer comes over and, again, comes to this Irish woman and says to her, Are you aware how many of your country women leave Ireland and go to England every year to have abortions? And it was kind of a last jab at her to prove their point. And so, the woman left, but she was shaken to have experienced this in her own town. And its a whole new wave of people that have come into Ireland, which Ill get to. She had another story about that.

But, she was shaken. So, she reached out to one of her good friends to explain what had just happened to her and the friend relayed a similar story she had had with an Indian man who was there in their town who was maybe conducting some kind of survey with people walking by. He asked her friend her name and so she gave the Indian man her first name. And he said, Well, thats not your full name. And she said, I dont have to give you my full name. Youre a stranger to me and I dont have to give you my full name. And he raises his voice to her and says, Ive lived in this country for five years! Im Irish! And she responded to him, My people have been in this country for 5,000 years! So you have a little bit of catching up to do.

So, where this was going was to the next story. She said, Twenty years ago we saw what was happening in Germany with the migrants coming in, Muslims coming into Germany. She said, I never would have thought that would happen to my country. But, my country is no longer my country. Basically. And she said, My town has been labeled a sanctuary city. I didnt know that. They never told us. They never announced it. I happened to grab an article I never read, a newspaper. And it was printed in fine print at the bottom of it that my town is now a sanctuary city. She said, We see it. We feel it. You cant say anything against people or youre called a racist or its hate-speech. She says everything has to be peace, peace, peace.

And she says the bishops are silent about abortion, about the abomination, abominable false union masked as marriage referendums. The bishops are silent and she said, Any priest that speaks out once is sent out to some, basically, Timbuctoo where he doesnt even have anybody to impact. The priests are squashed into silence. And I said, Well, thats why Trump is building a wall. We see it here in America coming through South America. Those arent families. Those arent women and children. Those are men. And she said, Exactly. That it was men, young men, coming into our country, coming into Europe. I said, So, thats why Trump is building the wall. She said, Trump is fantastic. She said, But our newspapers are so censored by our media who so strongly oppose Trump for what hes doing that they spread incredible lies about Trump. So, any of the Irish people who arent seeking their own information are believing these lies about Trump. A group of my friends, we are so supportive of Trump that we prayed strongly for his election and what hes doing is very good for your nation.

And she went on to say, I bought up Muslims then, misfires, abomination, and abominable marriage and what theyre bringing into their nation and how the priests arent speaking out about it. And she said, You know, theyre teaching this in first grade. And so I said, Well, I bet the Muslims arent quiet about that because they dont teach that in their religion. And she said, Oh no. She said, Its the Catholics that are quiet. Were the Protestants. Theyre taught peace, just have to be peace. But she said, The minute they passed that and started teaching that in our schools to first graders, the Muslims were out in their streets and they protested for three weeks. And at the end of three weeks, the school backed down and got it out of the curriculum.

In describing how their town has been flooded, how their country has been flooded with migrants, she gave another story about walking down the street in her town, and she saw a migrant screaming at an elderly woman in her 70s, an elderly Irish woman. And she said, as she approached, the old woman was shaking and the screaming was just escalating and she asked, Is everything here ok? And the migrant turned to her still screaming and said, This woman touched my car. This woman touched my car. Im calling the police. She touched my car. She needs to be arrested. And so, the Irish woman said, I slowly reached out my hand and put it on her car and I said to this migrant, Well I touched your car now too. Are you going to have me arrested? And she said, she turned at started screaming at her as well but that she was forced to leave. The elderly woman just thanked her.

But, the last story she relayed was, The current prime minister of Ireland wasnt elected by the people. He was simply placed there. And he had been the minister of health previously and had run their health care into the ground. But, she said that there are trolley cars filled with elderly people, elderly Irish people that are waiting to be seen in these health care facilities. She happened to need health care assistance. She went in one day and she was filling out her paperwork information and a migrant came straight up to the desk, didnt wait in line, and said, I have a headache. I want an MRI. And she said, He didnt have to fill out any paperwork. Migrants that have come in our country, they get free healthcare, free jobs, free food. The Irish people dont even get. They get their homes taken away. Her sister lost her home. But the migrants come in and get anything they need. The Irish people have no power because theyre called racist if they stand up. The priests cant stand up. The Irish are attacked in their street.

So, they were really disturbing encounters because of really where we are in our country also as far as if Trump hadnt been elected and what were facing with the border walls and all the issues. So, that was what was news from Ireland.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

What does she feel the fate of the country is going to be? Did she relay that to you?

[JESSICA]

She did. She said its very difficult because they cant, the citizens who do understand whats going on cannot speak out and she relayed that there is something which I havent researched or heard about. But she said theres something called Agenda 2040 that shes heard about that deals with the plan of migration into their nation, their country, that the Irish people, by 2040 would become minorities. And she said, again, twenty years ago she might not have believed that, but when she was watching Germany go through this migration. And she said now its rampant throughout Ireland. I said, Well then theyre going to change the laws and Shri-law? She just said, Well, we already are losing our voices. And, they didnt even get to vote their prime minister in. He was just put there, placed there. So, also, she knows that the protection where the people are voting for abortion, theyre voting for abominable false unions. She said its just bad all over because, where is the hope? The priests are sent away if they speak out and help form the people, help strengthen the people. And then you have the Muslims that are there that are protesting, that are speaking out, that are gaining the power also with these refugees. And the Irish cant get jobs, they cant keep their houses if they dont have a job. The government is not intent on helping the Irish be successful. Theyre intent on helping the migrants that are pouring into their country still, to be successful.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Ive read about the project Ireland 2040. Actually, listen to the verbiage of what it talks about. It says, Project Ireland 2040 has been enhancing regional connectivity and competitiveness in proving environmental sustainability and building a fairer, more equal Ireland for everyone. This is how it comes on. Its a lie. Its purpose is to crush those who populate Ireland. And the population movement is going to be no Irish, basically, in 40-50 years and very few people will be speaking English.

One thing this woman said, shes praying for Trump, which is a recognition that the United States is the nation that if we win, the world wins. If we lose, the whole world loses. And this goes back to everything about the consecrations, the Patriotic Rosary, everything weve been talking about. We are having an aggressive movement of darkness against the light right now and these next two or three years, were peaking out to 40 years of apparitions. All this should say something. When you says kill these babies now or kill them later, all this should shake you. And weve heard for years about these stories about Ireland.

I just recently had a nasty letter from an Irish man say, You said that Ireland is dead. He relayed that we dont want this either. We fight. Yeah, but youre in a minority. And Ireland is dead. And its dead because its the first nation in the world that has voted, even what the Roman empire did not make legal, or even Sodom, or all these places, they didnt legalize it. They just did it. Ireland is the first nation in the world thats done this. We have to pray for Ireland. We have to pray for America. We have to pray for the whole world. Because these things have put us on a frightening path.

Our Lady is not saying, Those who pray are not afraid of the future. Those who fast are not afraid of evil. If you dont do that, youll be frightened. This woman who just relayed this to us is brave. She stands up. Shes connected to Medjugorje and her hope is not in Ireland, but is in the United States of America.

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Now, here is a Friend of Medjugorje to conclude todays Mejanomics broadcast.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

And so, we have to look at the seriousness of the world. We have a window, not just from Ireland but from England, from Russia, from Poland, from Australia. People from all over the world come into our Mission House. We need you to support it. Were the only place in Medjugorje that you can come and discuss what we just heard to people who can give them the messages, material, how to pray, how to bring it, how to live it. There is no other place in Medjugorje. Were doing right now our fund drive to supply for the rest of the year free material through a container well send to Medjugorje. We ask that you support this. Its very important. And youre the hope, like this older Irish woman, that she can cling to.

They live by what we put out in that Mission House. Nowhere else in Medjugorje can you do it. There is not any place you can get what we give there. So, were praying for you. We need to be praying for our nation, thereby praying for the whole world.

We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Goodbye.

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