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This feature is written by Rita Diller, STOPP’s national director and former diocesan director of Respect Life Ministries for the Amarillo Diocese.
 
During the many hours spent on the sidewalk at the abortion mills of Corpus Christi, Texas, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I began to know the Rosary well and pray it with my every breath. Face to face day after day with the greatest evil imaginable -- the killing of little children for money --  I came to understand what a comfort the Rosary is.

I also learned that Mary’s intercession has tremendous power over evil. Just the presence of her image at the abortuaries, PP facilities, PP gatherings and pregnancy resource centers drives demons away and brings down palpable grace from heaven.


Our Blessed Mother calms, attracts and protects

I learned that carrying a Rosary when I talked to young women considering abortion calmed them—and me—tremendously and facilitated generous help from heaven.

A large image of Mary, under the title Our Lady of Guadalupe, was our constant companion at the abortion mills and the pregnancy resource center, and years later, as I began my work as the Diocese of Amarillo’s respect life director and began organizing prayer vigils at the local PP centers.

Our large image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was tremendously meaningful to those of Hispanic descent. When they saw her and heard the prayers of the Rosary, which we continually recited while outside of PP facilities, the hurting women were often drawn to us. This gave us an opportunity to offer them alternatives to PP’s lethal “services” and build a relationship with them.  

On many occasions PP workers left their employment because of the impact of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who convicted their hearts.

Our Blessed Mother is victorious!

Early in our campaign to stop PP, Bishop John Yanta consecrated the Amarillo diocese to Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Preborn. He renewed that consecration every year.

Thanks to that consecration to Our Lady and the faithfulness of the bishop and the people of the Amarillo diocese, the evil that was once in full bloom there was overcome. After 11 years of prayer and education, 18 of the PP facilities in the Texas Panhandle shut down. A few months later, in December of 2008, the remaining two disaffiliated from PP.

As STOPP begins its campaign to bring Jesus, through Mary, to every PP facility in America, I pray that you will take advantage of all the grace that Our Blessed Mother will obtain from God for you and all those souls who cross your path at PP facilities. She whom the archangel Gabriel called “full of grace” (Luke 1:28) will bring an end to abortion. We are guaranteed the victory if we persevere in faith.

For more information on STOPP and its plan for defeating PP, visit http://www.stopp.org/, or email rdiller@all.org.