Note from The Bell-Wether-The Green Wood

For only the second time in my adult life, I missed Holy Thursday Mass. However, I am going into a silent retreat tonight which will end Easter morning. Not the same as being with my people, but....

When I ponder on the reasons why I could not get to church today, one thing stuck in my mind.

As usual, I experience something harsh before my fellow brothers and sisters in order to warn them.

In the not too distant future, many of us, perhaps the majority, may not have access to the Triduum. If you do now, take advantage of this great grace.

Many enemies both outside and inside the Church bear upon our daily lives, but this situation will come to a crisis soon.

No priests, or only disobedient ones, no bishops, or only disobedient ones, no sacraments...and so on, will be the norm in many dioceses.

So, tonight, as I begin a time of solitary prayer, I am reminded of the recusants in my beloved England, who did not have the Mass or sacraments except on rare occasions.

Pray for yourselves...Christ's warning to the Women of Jerusalem echo tonight. The Jews and Romans used the green wood to fashion Jesus' Cross...when things are going well, this is how some people act. What will happen in times of great tribulation?

Luke 23

26 As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus. 27 A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the days are surely coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Nice to see I am not alone imho

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For Parents During The Triduum

My mother had a sense of what to do in the house over the Triduum. We were not allowed to be part of loud or raucous activities. Quiet settled into the house on Thursday and continued until Sunday morning.

We did not have to be silent, but subdued. No parties, of course, no sports, no tv, just peace,and a sense of solemnity while doing chores around the house, getting ready for Easter.

We did not have to be silent the entire time Christ was on the Cross, but we did have to be silent from one until we went to Church at three. We did quiet things in our rooms, like color, or read, or pray, or think.

My mother had the sense to teach us the proper decorum for this holy time. The home is the domestic church, and in times to come, it may be the ONLY local church your family will have.

Teach your children that Christ was on the Cross for six hours, and that darkness covered the earth for the last three hours. This may seem like a long time for dying, but Pilate was surprised that Christ had died so quickly. One cannot imagine the pain of six hours, Godly pain, more than what we would experience, as Christ suffered for all of our sins.

A nice timeline is here. I had one at home of all the Bible events--in fact, we had two different ones.

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/when-precisely-did-jesus-die-the-year-month-day-and-hour-revealed

One thing home schooling and other parents can do with children ten and over, is simply go through the section in the CCC on the Crucifixion, and discuss the points. Here these are.

Paragraph 2. Jesus Died Crucified
I. THE TRIAL OF JESUS
Divisions among the Jewish authorities concerning Jesus
595 Among the religious authorities of Jerusalem, not only were the Pharisee Nicodemus and the prominent Joseph of Arimathea both secret disciples of Jesus, but there was also long-standing dissension about him, so much so that St. John says of these authorities on the very eve of Christ's Passion, "many.. . believed in him", though very imperfectly.³⁷⁸ This is not surprising, if one recalls that on the day after Pentecost "a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith" and "some believers. . . belonged to the party of the Pharisees", to the point that St. James could tell St. Paul, "How many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; and they are all zealous for the Law."³⁷⁹
596 The religious authorities in Jerusalem were not unanimous about what stance to take towards Jesus.³⁸⁰ The Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers.³⁸¹ To those who feared that "everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation", the high priest Caiaphas replied by prophesying: "It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish."³⁸² The Sanhedrin, having declared Jesus deserving of death as a blasphemer but having lost the right to put anyone to death, hands him over to the Romans, accusing him of political revolt, a charge that puts him in the same category as Barabbas who had been accused of sedition.³⁸³ The chief priests also threatened Pilate politically so that he would condemn Jesus to death.³⁸⁴
Jews are not collectively responsible for Jesus' death
597 The historical complexity of Jesus' trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts. The personal sin of the participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate) is known to God alone. Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained in the apostles' calls to conversion after Pentecost.³⁸⁵ Jesus himself, in forgiving them on the cross, and Peter in following suit, both accept "the ignorance" of the Jews of Jerusalem and even of their leaders.³⁸⁶ Still less can we extend responsibility to other Jews of different times and places, based merely on the crowd's cry: "His blood be on us and on our children!", a formula for ratifying a judicial sentence.³⁸⁷ As the Church declared at the Second Vatican Council:

. . . [N]either all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the crimes committed during his Passion. . . [T]he Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture.³⁸⁸

All sinners were the authors of Christ's Passion
598 In her Magisterial teaching of the faith and in the witness of her saints, the Church has never forgotten that "sinners were the authors and the ministers of all the sufferings that the divine Redeemer endured."³⁸⁹ Taking into account the fact that our sins affect Christ himself,³⁹⁰ the Church does not hesitate to impute to Christians the gravest responsibility for the torments inflicted upon Jesus, a responsibility with which they have all too often burdened the Jews alone:

We must regard as guilty all those who continue to relapse into their sins. Since our sins made the Lord Christ suffer the torment of the cross, those who plunge themselves into disorders and crimes crucify the Son of God anew in their hearts (for he is in them) and hold him up to contempt. And it can be seen that our crime in this case is greater in us than in the Jews. As for them, according to the witness of the Apostle, "None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." We, however, profess to know him. And when we deny him by our deeds, we in some way seem to lay violent hands on him.³⁹¹Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.³⁹²

II. CHRIST'S REDEMPTIVE DEATH IN GOD'S PLAN OF SALVATION
"Jesus handed over according to the definite plan of God"
599 Jesus' violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: "This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God."³⁹³ This Biblical language does not mean that those who handed him over were merely passive players in a scenario written in advance by God.³⁹⁴
600 To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes in it each person's free response to his grace: "In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place."³⁹⁵ For the sake of accomplishing his plan of salvation, God permitted the acts that flowed from their blindness.³⁹⁶
"He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures"
601 The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of "the righteous one, my Servant" as a mystery of universal redemption, that is, as the ransom that would free men from the slavery of sin.³⁹⁷ Citing a confession of faith that he himself had "received", St. Paul professes that "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures."³⁹⁸ In particular Jesus' redemptive death fulfills Isaiah's prophecy of the suffering Servant.³⁹⁹ Indeed Jesus himself explained the meaning of his life and death in the light of God's suffering Servant.⁴⁰⁰ After his Resurrection he gave this interpretation of the Scriptures to the disciples at Emmaus, and then to the apostles.⁴⁰¹
"For our sake God made him to be sin"
602 Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: "You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers. . . with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake."⁴⁰² Man's sins, following on original sin, are punishable by death.⁴⁰³ By sending his own Son in the form of a slave, in the form of a fallen humanity, on account of sin, God "made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."⁴⁰⁴
603 Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned.⁴⁰⁵ But in the redeeming love that always united him to the Father, he assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin, to the point that he could say in our name from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"⁴⁰⁶ Having thus established him in solidarity with us sinners, God "did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all", so that we might be "reconciled to God by the death of his Son".⁴⁰⁷
God takes the initiative of universal redeeming love
604 By giving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his plan for us is one of benevolent love, prior to any merit on our part: "In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins."⁴⁰⁸ God "shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."⁴⁰⁹
605 At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God's love excludes no one: "So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."⁴¹⁰ He affirms that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many"; this last term is not restrictive, but contrasts the whole of humanity with the unique person of the redeemer who hands himself over to save us.⁴¹¹ The Church, following the apostles, teaches that Christ died for all men without exception: "There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer."⁴¹²
III. CHRIST OFFERED HIMSELF TO HIS FATHER FOR OUR SINS
Christ's whole life is an offering to the Father
606 The Son of God, who came down "from heaven, not to do [his] own will, but the will of him who sent [him]",⁴¹³ said on coming into the world, "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God." "And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."⁴¹⁴ From the first moment of his Incarnation the Son embraces the Father's plan of divine salvation in his redemptive mission: "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work."⁴¹⁵ The sacrifice of Jesus "for the sins of the whole world"⁴¹⁶ expresses his loving communion with the Father. "The Father loves me, because I lay down my life", said the Lord, "[for] I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father."⁴¹⁷
607 The desire to em race his Father's plan of redeeming love inspired Jesus' whole life, ^{for his redemptive passion was the very reason for his Incarnation. And so he asked, "And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour."419 And again, "Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?"420 From the cross, just before "It is finished", he said, "I thirst."421}
"The Lamb who takes away the sin of the world"
60  After agreeing to baptize him along with the sinners, John the Baptist looked at Jesus and pointed him out as the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the wÀrld".⁴²² By doing so, he reveals that Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes, and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover.⁴²³ Christ's whole life expresses his mission: "to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."⁴²⁴
Jesus freely embraced the Father's redeeming love
609 By embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."⁴²⁵ In suffering and death his humanity became the free and perfect instrument of his divine love which desires the salvation of men.⁴²⁶ Indeed, out of love for his Father and for men, whom the Father wants to stve, Jesus freely accepted his Passion and death: "No one takes [my life] from me, but I lay it down of my own accord."⁴²⁷ Hence the sovereign freedom of God's Son as he went out to his death.⁴²⁸
At the Last Supper Jesus anticipated the free offering of his life
610 Jesus gave the supreme expression of his free offering of himself at the meal shared with the twelve Apostles "on the night he was betrayed".⁴²⁹ On the eve of his Passion, while still free, Jesus transformed this Last Supper with the apostles into the memorial of his voluntary offering to the Father for the salvation of men: "This is my body which is given for you." "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins."⁴³⁰
611 The Eucharist that Christ institutes at that moment will be the memorial of his sacrifice.⁴³¹ Jesus includes the apostles in his own offering and bids them perpetuate it.⁴³² By doing so, the Lord institutes his apostles as priests of the New Covenant: "For their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth."⁴³³
The agony at Gethsemani
612 The cup of the New Covenant, which Jesus anticipated when he offered himself at the Last Supper, is afterwards accepted by him from his Father's hands in his agony in the garden at Gethsemani,⁴³⁴ making himself "obedient unto death". Jesus prays: "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. . ."⁴³⁵ Thus he expresses the horror that death represented for his human nature. Like ours, his human nature is destined for eternal life; but unlike ours, it is perfectly exempt from sin, the cause of death.⁴³⁶ Above all, his human nature has been assumed by the divine person of the "Author of life", the "Living One".⁴³⁷ By accepting in his human will that the Father's will be done, he accepts his death as redemptive, for "he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree."⁴³⁸
Christ's death is the unique and definitive sacrifice
613 Christ's death is both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world",⁴³⁹ and the sacrifice of the New Covenant, which restores man to communion with God by reconciling him to God through the "blood of the covenant, which was poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins".⁴⁴⁰
614 This sacrifice of Christ is unique; it completes and surpasses all other sacrifices.⁴⁴¹ First, it is a gift from God the Father himself, for the Father handed his Son over to sinners in order to reconcile us with himself. At the same time it is the offering of the Son of God made man, who in freedom and love offered his life to his Father through the Holy Spirit in reparation for our disobedience.⁴⁴²
Jesus substitutes his obedience for our disobedience
615 "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous."⁴⁴³ By his obedience unto death, Jesus accomplished the substitution of the suffering Servant, who "makes himself an offering for sin", when "he bore the sin of many", and who "shall make many to be accounted righteous", for "he shall bear their iniquities".⁴⁴⁴ Jesus atoned for our faults and made satisfaction for our sins to the Father.⁴⁴⁵
Jesus consummates his sacrifice on the cross
616 It is love "to the end"⁴⁴⁶ that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction. He knew and loved us all when he offered his life.⁴⁴⁷ Now "the love of Christ controls us, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died."⁴⁴⁸ No man, not even the holiest, was ever able to take on himself the sins of all men and offer himself as a sacrifice for all. The existence in Christ of the divine person of the Son, who at once surpasses and embraces all human persons, and constitutes himself as the Head of all mankind, makes possible his redemptive sacrifice for all.
617 The Council of Trent emphasizes the unique character of Christ's sacrifice as "the source of eternal salvation"⁴⁴⁹ and teaches that "his most holy Passion on the wood of the cross merited justification for us."⁴⁵⁰ And the Church venerates his cross as she sings: "Hail, O Cross, our only hope."⁴⁵¹
Our participation in Christ's sacrifice
618 The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the "one mediator between God and men".⁴⁵² But because in his incarnate divine person he has in some way united himself to every man, "the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery" is offered to all men.⁴⁵³ He calls his disciples to "take up [their] cross and follow [him]",⁴⁵⁴ for "Christ also suffered for [us], leaving [us] an example so that [we] should follow in his steps."⁴⁵⁵ In fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries.⁴⁵⁶ This is achieved supremely in the case of his mother, who was associated more intimately than any other person in the mystery of his redemptive suffering.⁴⁵⁷

Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.⁴⁵⁸

IN BRIEF
619 "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures" (I Cor 15:3).
620 Our salvation flows from God's initiative of love for us, because "he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins" (I Jn 4:10). "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself" (2 Cor 5:19).
621 Jesus freely offered himself for our salvation. Beforehand, during the Last Supper, he both symbolized this offering and made it really present: "This is my body which is given for you" (Lk 22:19).
622 The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28), that is, he "loved [his own] to the end" (Jn 13:1), so that they might be "ransomed from the futile ways inherited from [their] fathers" (I Pt 1:18).

623 By his loving obedience to the Father, "unto death, even death on a cross" (Phil 2:8), Jesus fulfills the atoning mission (cf. Is 53:10) of the suffering Servant, who will "make many righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities" (Is53:11; cf. Rom 5:19).

A Special Good Friday Tomorrow

The vast majority of scholars place Christ's agony and death on the Cross on this date--Friday, April 3, A.D. 33

This means, that this year, Good Friday falls on the exact date of Christ's death.

There are no coincidences, just God-incidences.

Tomorrow will be a special, awesome Good Friday.

As usual, women and children in harm's way

http://www.france24.com/en/20150402-palestinians-push-back-damascus-camp-monitor/

More Burke

http://southernorderspage.blogspot.com/2015/04/cardinal-burke-speaks-again-and-as.html

Tenebrae Again

I love Tenebrae, and started it already, as it begins on Wednesday, if you desire, and moves through Thursday, and Friday, anticipating, if sung at night, the Matins and Lauds of Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week. In the monasteries, one waits until early Thursday morning, Matins and Lauds.

I do the Matins on Wednesday night and then continue with the Lauds on Thursday, but I am alone and can change the order. The rest I do as indicated, Friday Matins and Lauds together, and Saturday Matins and Lauds together. If I start on Wednesday, I feel as if I am preparing more reflectively for Holy Thursday.

My first introduction to Tenebrae was in 1980 at Notre Dame. The singing and presentation were spectacular and extremely prayerful. Then, when I lived in England, I attended Tenebrae, as several parishes where I lived held the Wednesday night anticipation. Because I am in the States, I have no idea where Tenebrae could be occurring outside of the Benedictine Monasteries, so I just do it on my own.

If you have the Baronius Press publication of the 1962 Missal, Tenebrae may be found there.

I know Tenebrae is held in England, the Netherlands, Italy, and in other European countries. I have no idea why Americans have not continued the custom. It is supposed to begin two hours before dawn on Thursday in monasteries, or the night before on the Wednesday in parishes. A bare altar with a 15 candelabra fills the sanctuary, and after each Psalm, (and these are all sung), a candle is extinguished, until the church is dark. Sometimes one candle is left lit as the choir processes out with that candle.

When all is dark in the parish version, the people in the pews pick up their song books and bang them on the pew fronts, making the sound of the earthquake when Christ died, or, as some want to state the sound of the Resurrection.



From YouTube, one version. A sublime composition, and the Benedictus is wonderful! One can hear the choir processing out, and I can imagine that happening with the one candle leading them away, leaving all the rest in the congregation in darkness.

My post from 2012

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Tenebrae

Posted by Supertradmum

If you are fortunate enough to live near a church which has Tenebrae, I encourage you to go. I miss this special Holy Wednesday service, which begins with a procession of lit candles and proceeds through the singing of theLamentations of Jeremiah, with a candle being extinguished until the entire church is in darkness. Then, the congregation takes the hymnals and bangs them on the pews to create the sound of the earthquake which happened when Christ died.

Tenebrae means shadow or darkness. The ancient form was, as this note from Catholic Encyclopedia states,  On the three days before Easter", says Benedict XIV (Institut., 24), "Lauds follow immediately on Matins, which in this occasion terminate with the close of day, in order to signify the setting of the Sun of Justice and the darkness of the Jewish people who knew not our Lord and condemned Him to the gibbet of the cross."

The simplicity of the service, which is only a meditation on the Death of Christ, is a fitting beginning to the grand liturgies of the Triduum.


"How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people; How is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow; the princess of provinces made tributary! Weeping she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. There is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her, they are become her enemies."

Several of the Psalms are also sung, with some readings from St. Augustine on the Psalms.

"Think not, therefore, that the wicked are in this world without a purpose, and that God worketh no good out of them. Every wicked man liveth, either that he many himself be corrected, or that through him some good man may be exercised."

The Way to Perfection.....in one prayer

Suscipe

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,

my memory, my understanding,

and my entire will,

All I have and call my own.

You have given all to me.

To you, Lord, I return it.

Everything is yours; do with it what you will.

Give me only your love and your grace,

that is enough for me.

Mistaken Identity

Pondering on my own sins and the lack of holiness in my mind, heart, imagination, soul, body, I was reminded that Christ's Identity was mistaken by those who thought they were holier than most. Too often, if we are not in "serious sin", we can forget who the really holy men and women are.

The members of the Sanhedrin, as we read this week, condemned a Man Whom they thought was a threat to their religion. Now, some Protestants and some rebellious Catholics who do not believe in the institutionalized Church see Christ as the Great Rebel against organized religion.

This is a case of mistaken identity. Christ established His religion, continuing the Revelation of the Old Covenant by making a New Covenant based on Himself., the Messiah, the Saviour, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

But, we too misread people's identities. I would like to mention a few of these faux pas which I have made myself in my life, learning the hard way, that holiness is not always obvious, and that those who seem holy may very well not be. It is not actions which reveal holiness, but the love for God, the love of the Truth.

Years ago, I met a woman who was not educated beyond high school. She has proved to be one of the holiest and most humble persons I know, full of grace and truth. She never reads blogs, or never goes on line. She has never taken a theology course in her life. She is on her way to being a great saint and few know this. She is a barber.

Another person I met a long time ago is also uneducated, a man who taught me to have a devotion to the Divine Mercy, which I did not at the time, and renewed my saying the daily rosary. This person does not have a college degree, and has had a sad and unfulfilled life. Yet, he is on his way to being a saint as well. He is poor, and on state-aid. He prays the Divine Office daily. His children ignore him.

Two other ladies looked like ordinary working women, one single, another still young and busy, but they had powerful experiences of conversion and freedom from horrible past sins, plus being raised in the era of either no catechesis, or very poor teaching of the Faith. Both of these ladies have been brought to a great maturity of Faith by God in an extremely short period of time. In other words, what I had to learn over a lifetime, God taught them in months, yes, months because they are humble and ask Him for grace. They are on their way to becoming great saints.

My last example may be the strongest. Many people I know mistake this person for a public sinner, and yet, she is the most holy and pious person I have ever met. living in penance for early sins, sins which people in her community seem to know. No one knows her personal struggles to stay holy, and yet, she is, imho, the holiest person I know on this earth She is a veritable Mary Magdalen, and God gives her infused knowledge born out of pain and suffering. She is brilliant, loving, and one of the most humble persons I have ever met, not content to look at her many talents, but only on her inadequacies. She is on her way to becoming a great saint. I feel honored to just listen to her speak of holy things, of the knowledge of divine things.

Mistaken identities....the saints are most likely not those prancing about the altar as Eucharistic Ministers, or the teachers of RCIA, or the leaders of charismatic prayer groups. The saints are not those necessarily who have retreat centers and charge for spiritual direction.

The saints are not obvious....neither was Christ to those who did not want to see with the Eyes of God.

Another list..some repeats

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Companies that FUND Planned MURDERHOOD!

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Alzheimer’s Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
America Gives Back: funds and/or backs at least one pro-abortion group
American Association for Cancer Research: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
American Association for Dental Research: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
American Association of Retired Persons: advocates for embryonic stem cell research; has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
American Automobile Association: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
American Burn Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
American Cancer Society: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
American Diabetes Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
American Thoracic Society: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
American Thyroid Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Amnesty International: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
APBD (Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease) Research Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
ASPIRA Association: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Audubon Society: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Axion Research Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Boys & Girls Clubs: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Camp Fire: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Children’s Aid Society: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Children’s Defense Fund: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Church World Service: see Council of Churches
Comic Relief: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Council of Churches: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
CROP Hunger Walks: see Council of Churches
Dr. Phil Foundation: funds and/or backs at least one pro-abortion group
Doctors Without Borders: see Médecins Sans Frontières
Eagles: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Easter Seals: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Elks: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Elton John AIDS Foundation: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Family Health International: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates); on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Girl Guides/Scouts: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates); on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Girls Inc.: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Glaucoma Research Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Hereditary Disease Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Human Rights Watch: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Idol Gives Back: see America Gives Back
Institute of International Education: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Kiwanis: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Komen Foundation: see Susan G. Komen Foundation
Lance Armstrong Foundation: see Livestrong Foundation
League of Women Voters: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Lions: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Livestrong Foundation: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates); advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Lou Gehrig’s Disease: see ALS Association, Project ALS
Lupus Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Lymphoma Research Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
March of Dimes: advocates for embryonic stem cell research; policy is effectively “pro-choice” toward preborn children believed to be “imperfect”
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders): distributes abortifacient birth control
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Michael J. Fox Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Muscular Dystrophy Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Myositis Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
National Alliance for Eye & Vision Research: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
National Childhood Cancer Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
National Education Association: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
National Multiple Sclerosis Society: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
National Osteoporosis Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
National Parkinson’s Disease Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
National Psoriasis Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
National Spinal Cord Injury Association: see United Spinal Association
National Urban League: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Outward Bound: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Paralyzed Veterans: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Parkinson’s Action Network: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Pemphigus & Pemphigoid Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Prevent Cancer Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Project ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis): advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Quest for the Cure: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Race for the Cure: see Susan G. Komen Foundation
Red Cross: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Relay for Life Research Society on Alcoholism: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Research! America: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Robert Packard Center for ALS Research: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Ronald McDonald House: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Rotary: operates an internal anti-life (population control) division; funds and/or backs at least one pro-abortion group; on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Rett Syndrome Research Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Salvation Army: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates); accepts “hard case” abortions (rape, incest, fetal deformity, etc.)
Save the Children: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Scleroderma Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Scleroderma Research Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Sierra Club: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Society for Investigative Dermatology: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Society for Pediatric Research: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Society for Women’s Health Research: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Soroptimist International: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Steven & Michele Kirsch Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Susan G. Komen Foundation: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates); refuses to accept and inform women of the proven link between abortion and breast cancer
Tourette Syndrome Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Travis Roy Foundation: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Unite 2 Fight Paralysis: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
United Nations Children’s Fund: on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
United Spinal Association: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
United Way: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association): has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)
Youth for Human Rights: funds and/or backs at least one pro-abortion group; founded and run by the Church of Scientology cult
YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association): has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates); on record as a pro-abortion and/or population control group (includes affiliates)
Wi Cell Research Institute: advocates for embryonic stem cell research
Zonta: has worked with and/or funded Planned Parenthood (includes affiliates)

Big Garden Birdwatch Results, 2015

http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdwatch/results.aspx

I use to do this with my son. For home schooling parents in Britain, it is a great project.

From LifeSite News...Boycott List...there are more

And my church here sold Girl Scout cookies in the back of the church...horrible.

 Adobe, AOL, Bank of America, Bayer, Chevron, Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster, etc.), eBay (PayPal, etc.), Laureate Education, Midas, Nationwide (insurance), Nike, Select Comfort (Sleep Number bed), Southwest Airlines (Jet Blue, etc.), Starwood Hotels (Aloft, Element, Four Points, Le Méridien, Sheraton, St. Regis, W, Westin, etc.), Symantec, Wells Fargo, and Whole Foods.

The pro-life group also maintains a list of prominent nonprofit organizations that LDI says “are associated with Planned Parenthood and/or its agenda.” The organizations may not necessarily make donations to the abortion business but may have some sort of relationship with it, such as joint programs, allowing Planned Parenthood leaders access to its members, or in other ways.

That list from LDI includes the following new groups: Comic Relief, Eagles Clubs, Elks Clubs, Elton John AIDS Foundation, and the Red Cross. Continuing members of the list of nonprofits that associate with Planned Parenthood include: AARP, American Cancer Society, Amnesty International, Audubon Society, Boys & Girls Clubs, Camp Fire, Dr. Phil Foundation, Girl Scouts, Girls Inc., Human Rights Watch, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Kiwanis Clubs, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Lions Clubs, March of Dimes, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Rotary Clubs, Salvation Army, Save the Children, Sierra Club, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, YMCA, and YWCA.

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/12/pro-life-group-lists-companies-backing-planned-parenthood/