Honorable
Senator
New
Jersey SenateState House
P.O. Box 099
Trenton, NJ 08625-0099
Re: Assembly Bill A2270/S382
Please Vote No
Dear
Senator:
Please consider: You have no power over any human being. No man has power over any other man and no
man answers to any other man, only to God.
Please recall Jesus of Nazareth’s words to Pontius Pilate: “You have no power over me”. Please remember that we are in God’s world,
not He in ours. And if you want to know
why you are here on the earth, you must ask your father and your mother, for it
is they who worked with God to bring you here.
Consider the story of Assemblyman
Patrick Diegnan, D-Middlesex, who told of his mother’s last days. She had wasted away to 50 pounds and would
tell him she wished she could die.
Consider Mary, Jesus’s Mom, who
watched Him die -- Taken from The Way of Divine Love**, March 26, 1923. Jesus is relating His thoughts to Sister
Josefa Menéndez as He carries His cross to Calvary:
“Come a little further with Me. . .
. There you will see My blessed Mother, whose heart is pierced with grief.
“Consider the martyrdom of these
two hearts. What does this Mother love
more than her Son? . . . And far from being able to help Him, she
knows that the sight of her anguish increases His.
“And I, what do I love more than My
Mother? Not only can I offer her no
comfort, but I know that the terrible plight in which she sees Me pierces her
heart with a sorrow like My own; for if I suffer death in the body, she suffers
death in her heart.
“See those eyes fixed on Mine, as
Mine dulled and blinded with blood are fixed on hers! No word is spoken, but what a world of
intercourse our two hearts exchange in one heart-rending glance. . . .”
Taken from The Way of Divine
Love**, March 28, 1923. Jesus's
words to Sister Josefa Menéndez:
“We have now reached the summit [of
Mount Calvary]. Look at the
officiousness with which these hardened sinners surround Me . . . some seize
hold of the Cross and lay it on the ground . . . others tear My garments from
Me, reopening all My wounds . . . My blood flows afresh. . . .
“Think, dear souls, of My shame in
seeing Myself thus exposed to the gaze of the mob . . . what physical agony,
what confusion for My soul. Think of the
affliction of My Mother as she witnessed this terrible scene. . . .”
Consider that Jesus was offered a
drink of wine mixed with myrrh and absinthe before He was nailed to the cross,
which He refused.
The following quotation is taken
from an article entitled “The Death of Jesus” by David Mathis, dated May 27,
2010 on the website desiringGod.org:
“According to an old tradition,
respected women of Jerusalem provided a narcotic drink to those condemned to
death in order to decrease their sensitivity to the excruciating pain . . . .
When Jesus arrived at Golgotha he was offered . . . wine mixed with myrrh, but
he refused it, choosing to endure with full consciousness the sufferings
appointed for him (The Gospel of Mark . . .)
“This first wine represented an offer to ease the pain, to opt for a small shortcut—albeit, not a major one in view of the terrible pain of the cross, but a little one nonetheless. But this offer Jesus refused, and in doing so, chose “to endure with full consciousness the sufferings appointed for him.”
Our society is trying so hard to
avoid relationships between human beings, running from one person to another
trying to find the “right relationship” and not succeeding very well. The thing is that human beings cannot and will
not sustain each other. We keep forcing
people away from us by forcing them to find their own room, their own life,
their own space, their own family.
Eventually a human being will stop trying to adjust to a society that
does not want him or her.
How society frowns on a homeless
person asking for money for whatever reason, or a father wheeling his child in
a stroller all over a city all day? Have
you ever noticed a mother with a paper cup and her two children, one about four
years old and the other about 8 years old, asking for help? Even though no human being in this whole wide
world wants to ask any other human being for anything, sometimes it’s the best
alternative to make ends meet. Let there
not be any other alternative.
Consider: After all those months we dated and finally
the big night. John just up and left me
the next morning. All he wanted was a one-night
stand? How can I ever be with another
man after giving myself so totally to John?
Oh, well, there’s always suicide.
Consider: Oh, Mother, you’re not doing well? You have cancer and only six months to
live? Remember the time that you hit me,
embarrassed me in front of my friends, did not like my girlfriend, etc. Have you ever thought about suicide, Mom?
Please consider:
1. Vote NO on A2270/S382. 2. Please try practicing what Jesus preached, not what other human beings think that Jesus preached.
Our Lady of America, please pray
for us. By Thy holy and Immaculate
Conception, Oh, Mary, deliver us from evil.
God bless you and God bless
America.
Sincerely
yours,
Bernardette
Grant
**The
Way of Divine Love, by Sister Josefa Menéndez, Reprinted by arrangement
with the copyright holder: Sands &
Co. (Publishers), Ltd., 79 Larmans Road, Enfield, Middlesex, England 1949. Copyright © 1972 by TAN Books &
Publishers, Inc. (Pocketbook Edition).
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