Lumina

01/21/2026

  After 23 years, I will no longer be the director of Good Counsel’s Lumina program It has been a great blessing to meet so many wonderful people throughout the years and a gift to me …

12/05/2025

It Couldn’t Happen to Us-Diagnosis

When we found out I was pregnant, we were ecstatic. We wanted to do everything right; eat well, sleep a lot, ponder the s*x, and its name. We had gone to a highly recommended doctor, asked all the right questions and giggled with glee at home over the thought of our soon-to-be offspring. I remember calling my dad and saying, “we passed the Downs Syndrome test....

When we found out I was pregnant, we were ecstatic. We wanted to do everything right; eat well, sleep a lot, ponder the s*x, and its name. We had gone to a highly recommended doctor, asked all the …

12/04/2025

These leaders want parents to know: You are not alone. Their groups are ready and waiting to accompany families, whether they are Catholic or not.

12/04/2025

The Blessing of Lumina

After 23 years, I will no longer be the director of Good Counsel's Lumina program It has been a great blessing to meet so many wonderful people throughout the years and a gift to me to be able to both educate on abortin healing and help those seeking healing find the help they need. The Lumina number will continue to be in effect for those seeking help through Good Counsel. ...

  After 23 years, I will no longer be the director of Good Counsel’s Lumina program It has been a great blessing to meet so many wonderful people throughout the years and a gift to me …

11/30/2025

Glorious Expectation

As others joyfully await the birth of Jesus during the Advent Season, many who have experienced abortion find themselves far from the peace Christ. Each day and moment of this time of preparation can be filled with anguish as the world awaits the birth of a Savior, while they perceive the birth of their damnation. The grace, forgiveness and mercy of God are not a truth they can experience....

As others joyfully await the birth of Jesus during the Advent Season, many who have experienced abortion find themselves far from the peace Christ. Each day and moment of this time of preparation c…

11/17/2025

Cheryl Riley was honored yesterday at the Lumina Brunch for her work in Rachels Vineyard with women and men healing from abortion. Cheryl and I go back a LONG time - united in the mercy of Jesus for us and spreadiing the news of that mercy to others. A heart of gold....Congratulations Cheryl!

11/03/2025

11/3/2025 Abortion Risks Greater than Tylenol Autism Risk, New Studies David C. Reardon, Ph.D. Health and Human Services (HHS) has declared that recent research demonstrates that acetaminophen use by pregnant women is "a root cause of autism." Studies examining this link report that the risk of autism increases somewhere between 7 and 35 percent for unborn children exposed to this commonly used pain medication....

11/3/2025 Abortion Risks Greater than Tylenol Autism Risk, New Studies David C. Reardon, Ph.D.   Health and Human Services (HHS) has declared that recent research demonstrates that acetaminoph…

10/16/2025

“Dreadful indeed it is to see a starving child, but the answer to that is not to prevent the child’s arrival but to restructure the world so that the child can live in it: so that the ‘vital interest’ of the world becomes nothing less than the life of the child.”

James Baldwin powerfully critiqued abortion as something the rich want to impose on the poor.

10/16/2025

When an expectant couple receives a diagnosis that their unborn child has a life-limiting condition, the news is traumatic and frightening. To make matters worse, the couple is often told […]

10/16/2025

During pregnancy, fetal cells migrate out of the womb and into a mother’s heart, liver, lung, kidney, brain, and more. They could shape moms’ health for a lifetime, Katherine J. Wu reported in 2024:⁠ https://theatln.tc/W8aBhPp2
⁠
The presence of these cells, known as microchimerism, is thought to affect every person who has carried an embryo, even if briefly, and anyone who has ever inhabited a womb. The cross-generational transfers are bidirectional—as fetal cells cross the placenta into maternal tissues, a small number of maternal cells migrate into fetal tissues, where they can persist into adulthood. ⁠
⁠
Genetic swaps, then, might occur several times throughout a life. Some researchers believe that people may be miniature mosaics of many of their relatives, via chains of pregnancy: their older siblings, perhaps, or their maternal grandmother, or any aunts and uncles their grandmother might have conceived before their mother was born. “It’s like you carry your entire family inside of you,” Francisco Úbeda de Torres, an evolutionary biologist at the Royal Holloway University of London, told Wu.⁠
⁠
Some scientists have argued that cells so sparse and inconsistent couldn’t possibly have meaningful effects. Even among microchimerism researchers, hypotheses about what these cells do—if anything at all—remain “highly controversial,” Sing Sing Way, an immunologist and a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, told Wu. But many experts contend that microchimeric cells aren’t just passive passengers. They are genetically distinct entities. And they might hold sway over many aspects of health: our susceptibility to infectious or autoimmune disease, the success of pregnancies, maybe even behavior. ⁠
⁠
If these cells turn out to be as important as some scientists believe they are, they might be one of the most underappreciated architects of human life, Wu writes.

10/12/2025

“God of love and mercy, you are always ready to forgive, we are sinners and you invite us to trust in your mercy” Eucharistic Prayer of Reconciliation He does not force us …He invites us to trust in His mercy. He tells us that it is there, that He is a God of love and mercy. That He is Mercy itself....

“God of love and mercy, you are always ready to forgive, we are sinners and you invite us to trust in your mercy” Eucharistic Prayer of Reconciliation He does not force us …He invites us to trust…

10/10/2025

Hurting after a past abortion ? meditations on healing.."A Journey to Healing Through Divine Mercy" Marian press

Hurting after a past abortion ? meditations on healing..”A Journey to Healing Through Divine Mercy” Marian press