The following comes from a Rorate Caeli blog post:
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me” (Mark 9: 37).
In our day, a well-formed Catholic can see the attack on the family from rampant lust: The objectification of women, artificial contraception, abortion, pornography, and prostitution. The gift of procreation — the greatest gift to our nature — suffers under this vice. It has broken lives through the centuries and today lust is even more free to break souls. The counter attack is to build up the family, live the virtues of modesty and chastity, and work for a virtuous culture.
One group that suffers the most, that are the most broken, are the sex trafficked. These are people who have been coerced – usually psychologically – into prostitution. And often the initial entrapment occurs during the teenage years — 15 years old is the average initial age. Trafficking does occur, but is it really a big problem? In larger cities it is on par with professional sports — hundreds of millions of dollars per year. In a city like San Diego, a recent study estimated 4,000 to 8,000 people working today in the sex industry have been trafficked. It is a big business that benefits from using the young.
Usually, sex trafficking is thought of as smuggling people from oversees – these are the stories that make it into the news. The reality is that 70% of the trafficked are US citizens. Why, then, don’t they just leave? The trafficker ensnares them by manipulating and exploiting their vulnerabilities, leaving them no way out of the life. With nobody else in their life who shows any care, the trafficked victim has no place else to go. What can be done?
In the mid-1600’s, St. John Eudes encountered a similar difficulty in France. When preaching his missions, he would hear confessions and had many penitent women coming to him, wanting to leave their life of prostitution, but who had nowhere to go. He encountered so many women that a congregation of religious women was established to house, serve, and evangelize these penitent women. The community was called the Institute of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge. All the women seeking refuge at the house were greeted by religious sisters bound by a fourth vow — to work with all of their might for the conversion of their penitents. It was a vow the saint often summarized as zeal for souls.
Today, a woman at the FSSP parish in San Diego, Grace Williams, is working for the salvation of these souls. She has discerned a call from God and is inflamed with a zeal for these souls – doing today for the sex trafficked what St. John Eudes did in the 17th century. Three years ago in 2013, she founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization called Children of the Immaculate Heart. They are helping three adult women and their ten children transition from the life. It is a difficult process. The women have no job skills and have endured years of psychological manipulation. They need housing, therapy, and education. It is sex trafficked minors, however, that are the aspiration of Children of the Immaculate Heart.
Grace’s goal is to open a residential treatment facility for sex trafficked minor girls in the next year.
These are girls 14 to 17 years old who have been manipulated into the life of prostitution and have no way out. Even in California there are no programs to help these girls. If they do appear in the juvenile court system, there is often a short jail time and they are back on the streets. It usually takes a few years for a girl to recover from being trafficked. A facility is needed to offer a live-in safe environment with counseling and high school education. This is critical need not only in San Diego but every city in the country.
Grace has lived under a private vow of chastity, obedience and Christian simplicity for the past three years, but her ultimate desire — if it is God’s Will — is a congregation of women religious dedicated to the sex trafficked. The congregation would be attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman rite.
It would be independent of the FSSP, but share in the liturgical life at the FSSP parish in San Diego. Until that time she will continue working with those souls most broken by the lust in our society.
To make a tax-deductible donation to Children of the Immaculate Heart, please click here.
Any young lady interested in testing this active vocation is welcome to contact Grace and schedule a visit. She can be reached at childrenoftheimmacualteheart AT gmail.com or (619) 431-5537
More information about this special work can be found on website of Children of the Immaculate Heart.
“Miss Grace” is very courageous! God bless her work! But now, who are the patrons of the poor victims of prostitution? At the big sports events mentioned in this article– who are the evil men seeking sex from these poor girls?? Can’t there be a stern law assed, to outlaw this terrible crime? And why can’t the Catholic Church, as well as ALL churches in our country– sternly preach, preach, preach, preach– against all sexual sins?? Most sexual sins are very grave Mortal Sins– you must GO TO CONFESSION– or NO COMMUION!! Our Nation needs to be “re-Christianized!” Send Cardinal Sarah and his African Catholics over here, to do the job– if that’s what it takes!
I just read a CHILLING article, about a young mother who went to Disneyland, with her husband and children. By coincidence, she thought she saw an older, creepy man, with several pretty, young, scantily-clad “beach girls,” hanging all over him. It made her very nervous and upset! Even worse– several men went up to him and the girls, welcoming them to the amusement park, saying “Hello, Mr. Hefner!” The lady’s blood ran cold– her husband whispered to her, that it was the famed Hugh Hefner, of Playboy magazine, and his so-called “Playboy bunnies!” The lady held her children close, praying to God for protection, and the little family made a quick escape! What a HORROR!
Did she think Hefner would bite her children? Why didn’t she just mind her own business, why spend so much energy and get upset over another park guest? Why not just move along to the next ride?
Anonymous– Hugh Hefner, as you probably know–promotes HORRIFIC SIN, destroying millions of souls, constantly, while making a fortune! He is very dangerous to our society! He promotes the evil OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN, enraging all the “feminists!” He never married, and promotes “free (“Playboy”) sex,” instead– and he sleeps with the current, highly-paid “Playboy” models, in a FILTHY DEMONIC BED!! YOU DO NOT WANT HIM AT DISNEYLAND, ANONYOUS!! And the paid models he sleeps with– are a part of the DEMONIC SEX-TRAFFICKING, under a different name!!
Anonymous– PORNOGRAPHY is a HORRIBLE MORTAL SIN– IT DESTROYS THE HOLINESS OF CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE, HOME, AAND FAMILY, AND DESTROYS YOUR VERY SOUL– AND MAY SEND IT EVENTUALLY ALL THE WAY TO HELL!! NEER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GET INVOLVED IN THIS SIN!!! EVERY GIRL IS A BELOVED CHILD OF GOD, CREATED IN HIS HOLY IMAGE– AND HER BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!!
Our Lady of Fatima particularly warned against deadly sexual sins, which she said sends so many souls straight to Hell! She called for lots of prayer and penance!
BLACK LIVES MATTER LEADER, ONCE INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE, ARRESTED FOR PIMPING UNDER-AGE GIRL
https://www.inquisitr.com/3117321/black-lives-matter-leader-once-invited-to-the-white-house-arrested-for-pimping-under-age-girl/
Catherine, they get young women hooked on drugs first, especially marijuana, then on to the harder drugs, then into prostitution. Some tried that with me when I was younger, but it did not work thanks to pamphlets and books put out by Catholics, Evangelicals and others on the dangers of illegal drugs. Thanks be to God I never indulged in such things, or my life could have been far different.
Another thing young women need to know: drug lords often send their best looking men in nice clothes to hook young women on drugs and into prostitution. An older woman told how when she was young a handsome man came walking down the street in a nice Sunday suit when she was out watering her lawn. He told her how beautiful her roses were and asked her if she would like to buy some grass, and she politely told him, “No thank you.” (to be continued).
(Cont.) It was only later when a young man overdosed on PCP in her neighborhood that she realized that the man was trying to sell her marijuana. She found out that the neighborhood church, which was in a house, had been raided several times because people were going into the church at night and smoking marijuana and making PCP. I do not know if they were breaking in or had a key.
” Thanks be to God I never indulged in such things, or my life could have been far different.”
Thank you Anne T. I’m glad you were educated and reached out to with love. Those Catholic pamphlets and books educate and change hearts. These young ladies really do not want to be doing this. They need guidance and love. The predators know how to manipulate them. There but for the “grace” of God, go all of us.
Indeed, Catherine, “There but for the grace of God go I, ” is very true. St. John Vianney warned us not to get too puffed up with pride when another sins, lest we too fall. And St. Therese once said that if she had not been brought up in such a good environment, she too might have been a great sinner.
Plaques of Dublin: Legion of Mary, Francis Street.
The Legion of Mary is an INVALUABLE asset to a parish. Many priests avoid taking on this extraordinary apostolate because they falsely perceive that they won’t have the time or the man-power to do the work that will be sent to them. Well, watch out, because that is where the abundant success of God’s Supernatural gift of His Blessed Mother overrules all previous misconceptions. “Where sin exists, courageous “Grace” abounds more!
https://comeheretome.com/2012/10/02/plaques-of-dublin-legion-of-mary-francis-street/
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“The Legion of Mary would be the forefront of the campaign to close Dublin’s infamous red-light district in the first half of the 1920s. Known in popular Dublin history as Monto. Following the closure of the Monto, a solemn blessing of the area was organized by the Legion of Mary, for the following Sunday. As Terry Fagan has noted, this blessing involved hundreds who marched from the Pro-Cathedral, and as they marched through the district a picture of the sacred heart was nailed to the door of each one-time brothel. Frank Duff, at the back wall of Corporation Buildings, proceeded to hang a huge crucifix to the wall, sending a clear message that the days of Monto were well and truly over.”
Catherine— LOVE your posts, on the Legion of Mary! Frank Duff may actually be a Saint of the Church! Every Catholic parish needs the Legion of Mary, today! Sadly, they nearly disappeared, after Vatican II!! I miss them!
Thank you, Linda Maria, “Every Catholic parish needs the Legion of Mary, today! ”
Right before my daughter’s 15 hour brain surgery at UCLA, I saw a Catholic priest walking in the hospital. Linda Maria, I went up to this priest to ask him to give my daughter another blessing and while I stood talking to him, I felt the incredibly strong sense of Our Lady. I introduced myself and asked him his name and where his parish was. Then he told me he was also responsible for spiritual direction of the Legion of Mary Curia in his area. Imagine that! A divinely arranged appointment. BOTH, an alter Christus, and Our Lady, arriving to show such compassion and love!
And Mary said, “My soul doth magnify the Lord.” Luke 1:46 Douay-Rheims
Thanks for all of your great posts, Catherine! God bless you and your daughter! I hope she is going to be okay! Did you ever see this wonderful priest again?? It is a great gift, that you felt the presence of Our Lady, when the priest came! Did he give your daughter Extreme Unction, or the Sacrament of the Sick, when he blessed her??
Yes, Linda Marie. I did see this faithful priest again and I spoke to him on the phone a couple of years later. This was a few years ago. Linda Marie, This priest was cruelly and unjustly treated by our Diocese. He still fostered such a beautiful attitude about a suffering that would break someone who did not have or completely understand the Faith. I believe there are many priests such as this one, who although they have been terribly persecuted, they understand and they are offering up their daily sufferings, praying for their persecutors, and uniting these sufferings to what was done on the Cross in reparation for sins.
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At that time, when my daughter received the priest’s blessing, she had just recently received Extreme Unction from our parish priest. (A Legion of Mary priest) That particular surgery was successful and I am so very grateful to God. Thank you, and God bless you, for your kindness, Linda Maria. Please keep up the truly educational posts.
Catherine, thanks for your post! I am happy to hear that your daughter’s surgery was successful! I am sure Our Blessed Mother must have helped her, with many special graces! But what about the poor persecuted priest? Is he an orthodox priest, persecuted by liberals, or what? He surely needs our prayers! It is wonderful to know of very gifted priests, and to also seek them out, for their Heaven-sent gifts! Does he lead a Legion of Mary group somewhere? Thanks for your wonderful posts!
Linda Maria,
This priest does not lead a Legion of Mary group anymore. He is elderly now. Yes, he was orthodox in a diocese run by liberals. He could surely use our prayers. For many years, seminaries suppressed those who had a devotion to Our Lady and those who wanted to pray the rosary. Priests in the Diocese of Orange were ridiculed,mocked and made fun of by liberal confreres for wearing a cassock. Traditional Catholics were cruelly persecuted. One very liberal pastor in our diocese was astounded by the unbelievably cruel treatment to Traditional Catholics.
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Linda Maria, We had a beautiful dialogue with this very liberal priest. I asked him who cared about the salvation of our bishop’s soul when it becomes obvious that the Catholic faith is not being practiced? This priest had many different philosophies that we knew were not in keeping with the teachings of the Church but it soon became obvious by his kind demeanor that he knew that the truth was being spoken. He was filled with kindness and compassion and invited us to come to his parish and he said that he would allow no one to persecute us for our wanting to receive Holy Communion on the tongue or for kneeling.
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Linda Maria, We thanked this liberal pastor for listening but we told him that we could not join his parish because it was well known that his parish dissented from Church Teaching He did not get angry, he said, There’s room under the umbrella for everyone.” We told him that for Traditional Catholics, that was not true. IOW no Universal Truth. This was right before Summorum Pontificum. Good priests, good teachers, and the faithful are the ones who have “not been affirmed, not been accepted, removed, persecuted and marginalized.”
I don’t see an altar rail or a tabernacle.
Good Saint Dymphna, great wonder-worker in every affliction of mind and body, We humbly implore your powerful intercession with Jesus through Mary. Saint Dymphna, martyr of purity, patroness of those who are suffering, such as YFC and others who also suffer with nervous and mental afflictions, beloved child of Jesus and Mary, pray to Them for us and obtain our request.
(Pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be.)
If I pray the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Glory Be, will that help me see the altar rail and the tabernacle?
“If I pray the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Glory Be, will that help me see the altar rail and the tabernacle?”
YFC, If anyone *sincerely and contritely* keeps praying the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Glory B, then he will see much,much more than altar rails. For now though, YFC, you revealed your true Alinskyite form of *Your Fellow Comradeship* when you showed absolutely zero and cruel intolerance for the German homeschooling family being persecuted by their government.
Those homeschoolers, who are not the subject of today’s conversation at all, were here illegally. I guess you think illegal aliens should be allowed to break the law of their own country and live here without obeying our own laws?
“Those homeschoolers, who are not the subject of today’s conversation at all, were here illegally.” = Altar rails and Tabernacles were NOT the subjects of conversation at all, but that would never prohibit an Alinski follower from making sly (negative) subliminal remarks which infer that Tabernacles and altar rails are really not necessary.
Don’t pretend that you care about upholding any laws. Your posts show that you don’t care about upholding laws, especially God’s Laws. Even Bella Dodd, eventually repented, of her ties with evil, so here is a (positive) subliminal (seed planting) inference meant just for you!
Some who post here are doing little more than seeking material for their Vegas show, Catherine. Or maybe it’s just some back alley bar.
I remember that outdated blog Your Fellow Catholic that featured the comments of Abecca Christian lifted from CCD to stoke the flames of LGBTQ anti-Catholic bigotry.
But if Bella Dodd can come back, so can YFC. Just not today, it seems.
Thanks, Ann Malley! I also remember the moniker Angelo or Traditional Angelo. Do you remember those names?
I’m not immediately familiar with those monikers, Catherine, but patterns will no doubt emerge to ping the old gray cells. I’m just amazed at how blatantly Fatima/Akita and all seems to be playing out.
The messages there read like a detailed syllabus of what could otherwise be a very confusing course. In the interim, I take great solace in knowing the Immaculate Heart will triumph. Something that no doubt piques Satan even to this day. That’s why his following gets so ruffled, engaging in petty indignities to distract from the lessons to be learned.
God bless!
The portrayal of the Eudists’ founding is at one of the side altar chapels in the seminary church at Caen where S. John Eudes taught. Side altars in chapels often didn’t have communion rails due to the limited space, and the tabernacle was situated only at the main high altar of the church.
Vicente Roberto, you should not pay any attention to the way in which a person expresses themselves, either verbally or in their writing style! That is BAD MANNERS!! It is also definitely uncharitable! Some people, for example, cannot type well, and make many typing errors! Some cannot spell! Some have no proper English training, and some have little ability to write at al! Some love to be very expressive, and some are deeply inhibited and reserved! Our personal expression style is also influenced by culture, language, and family! Many American teens are insecure, and do not accept themselves and others! It takes MATURITY to accept yourself, and to EXPRESS YOUR IDEAS/FEELINGS!!
Some overuse punctuation!! But it would be bad manners to pay any attention to the way in which a person expresses themselves!! It would definitely be uncharitable!!
And should we get a good nun, who is an English teacher in a Catholic school— or perhaps an orthodox Catholic editor at Ignatius Books– to correct all of your posts, YFC, complete with their own personal prejudices? As for so-called “Vicente Roberto,” a college kid with a mouth of utter filth and hatred— what shall the good nuns do, but kick him out of Catholic school!! Worthless, to criticize others’ writing styles! It only shows immaturity, and worthless prejudice, hatred, and fear!
Linda Marie, “Vicente Roberto” (who is really the same as at least one other poster, “caritas”–expect him to appear soon) has an evil influence working upon him, marked as his comments often are hallmarked by abject crudeness and vulgarity. That spirit could not possibly come from Christ or the Blessed Virgin.
One could also count upon expecting “VR” to react when the subject matter is St. John Eudes and the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as it is here. Like clockwork.
Take no note of him. His life is his own choice and his choice is his own punishment.
Angelo, you are correct! Some people never grow up! All they do, is over-react to others, constantly, with crazy fears and prejudices, and try to project their own fears, hatred, and prejudices onto the rest of the world! Very ignorant!
Thank you, Angelo, for not remaining silent at the behest of VR who is so easily offset by the expressed views of others. Especially those views which call out the horror of sin.
Linda Maria – keep up the good work. Translation: Be yourself, caps and all.. Those who only relate zeal to a booze bottle are a sorry lot to be pitied.
I can only wonder of Brown University knows how poorly they are being represented by the hijacking of their name. In the days of morality clauses, VR could be disciplined for the sake of the school — something VR seems to not consider at all.
Vicente Roberto, I might not agree all the time with everything Linda Marie says, but do you know for a fact that she drinks a lot? If not, please refrain from saying that she does so. There are other ways you can dispute what she says.
Anne T., the subject of the above article– human trafficking– is a HORROR, no matter what religion you belong to– or none! I am sure you will agree! And everyone should rightly become very, very strongly opposed to this EVIL– including the horrid “Vicente”– and YES– USE STRONG EXPRESSIONS TO SHOW DISAPPROVAL! And seek to go out there and FIGHT it, and try to STOP it! So-called “Vicente” is just HORRIBLE!! I hope poor Grace Williams will be okay, and no criminals involved in human trafficking will try to do any violent crimes to her, as she bravely does her good work! Bless her!
I once knew of a miserable old man, who lived all alone in the neighborhood, after his wife passed away– and he spent all his days holding binoculars, and peering at his neighbors, constantly criticizing them all, over-reacting to every little thing they did! Then, he would actually go out of his way, whenever he saw some little thing he could not stand– such as a car parked the “wrong way,” next door, or the color or make of the car, etc.– and he would go over to the neighbor, and verbally throw a two-year-old tantrum! No one knew what to do– but in the end, to laugh at him, and to pity him, for his stupidity! He never knew how to make friends– and lived a lonely, bitter existence!
So-called “Vicente Roberto” is similar to this pitiful, bitter, angry old man, constantly peering at others, over-reacting to them, and criticizing them, throwing babyish tantrums all the time! Never could behave nicely, with good manners, never could find a good word to say to others, never knew how to grow up and make friends, and be a good neighbor!
“Vicente Roberto,” you really do need to GROW UP! Your IGNORANT and MALICIOUS posts are NOT WORTH RESPONDING TO!! YOU ARE A DISGRACE!! You behave like Donald Trump, attacking lovely women standing up for good values, on his RIDICULOUS campaign trail of two-year-old-style tantrums!!
“Vicente Roberto” owes me a big APOLOGY for his HATEFUL and FILTHY comments! ESPECIALLY as the above article is all about a very serious subject—- HUMAN TRAFFICKING!! Everyone should be really strong in CONDEMNING THE CRIME OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING!! WITH LOTS OF STRONG CAPITALIZATIONS OR WHATEVER WAY YOU CAN EXPRESS YOURSELF!! AND THOSE WHO STRONGLY CONDEMN THIS EVIL CRIME, MUST BE PRAISED, NOT SCORNED, BY EVIL POSTERS!! I certainly hope the very lovely, brave Grace Williams, who has also taken a serious vow of CHASTITY– will NEVER receive the FILTH and HATE SPEECH of evil “Vicente!”