{"id":461,"date":"2007-12-03T22:42:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T22:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=461"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:48:55","slug":"notes-from-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Tony Felicissimo, the Advocates of Life, Yonkers, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp; St. Eugene&#8217;s Church in Yonkers will be conducting the National Night of Prayer for Life on the<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Feast of the Immaculate Conception.&nbsp; Eucharistic Adoration will be held in the main church<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; beginning at 9 p.m. and will end at 1 a.m.&nbsp; Please come and beseech the Lord and His Mother<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; for the restoration of the culture of life.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2.&nbsp; Ed Riely contacted me to ask you for your assistance THIS WEDNESDAY, December 5.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Planned Parenthood is asking for more funds from Westchester County.&nbsp; Ed is asking that<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; anyone available to speak at the 7 p.m. meeting of the Legislature in White Plains to please<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; be there no later than 6 p.m. to sign up to give your three minute presentation.&nbsp; Anyone <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; interested can call me for further details.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3.&nbsp; Please keep January 23 on your calendar.&nbsp; To commemorate the Jan. 22 Roe v Wade<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; decision, Planned Parenthood is inviting Dr. Edelin, a famous African-American abortionist to <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; speak at a yet to be disclosed Westchester location.&nbsp; This &quot;doctor&quot; became nationally known <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; when he was charged with performing an abortion on a 18 week old unborn baby.&nbsp; For further<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; details please go the&nbsp; their&nbsp; website,&nbsp; pphp.org, and read about him from the horses mouth.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; We can&#8217;t let this event go without a public response, both in the media and by our picketing<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; outside this event.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4.&nbsp; Dr. Alveda King, neice of Dr. Martin Luther King, recently spoke at Cardinal Spellman High <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; School about her involvement in civil rights, including her work in the pro-life movement.&nbsp; I&#8217;m <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; trying to get her to Yonkers to speak to African-American congregations.&nbsp; Please pray that if<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; it God&#8217;s will that she would be able to make it and that local Protestant churches would be <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; open to having her preach at a service (I have my mind set on Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, a<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; very large Baptist, African-American Church on Nepperhan Ave.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know the views&nbsp; of <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; the current minister on abortion). <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5.&nbsp; The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal will be conducting a pro-life Mass and prayer vigil<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; in Mahattan on the feast of the Holy Innocents, December 28.&nbsp; After the Mass and procession <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; to the abortion mill they will then sing Christmas carols on the stairs of St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Please check the Friars website for more information.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; Please pass this information on.&nbsp; May the Lord bless us in His mercy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp; St. Eugene&#8217;s Church in Yonkers will be conducting the National Night of Prayer for Life on the &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Feast of the Immaculate Conception.&nbsp; Eucharistic Adoration will be held in the main church &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; beginning at 9 p.m. and will end at 1 a.m.&nbsp; Please come and beseech the Lord and His Mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}