It has been a year since Good Counsel's South Jersey home first opened its doors to single, homeless, pregnant women and their children. During that time, twelve babies were welcomed into the world, and their mothers learned the skills they needed to properly care for their children and themselves and to live independently.
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Good Counsel's South Jersey Home Featured in the Trenton Monitor
Two Moms that Deserve to be Honored this Mother's Day
Everyone has received the gift of life through a mother. Since life is so precious, mothers are, too.
One way you can honor that special person in your life this Mother's Day is by sharing this blessing with a mother before, during and after birth at a Good Counsel home.
Many women at our homes are just beginning their journey into motherhood. They've chosen life, and now we work to support them in their heroic decision.
Each day at a Good Counsel home mothers receive more than food, clothing and shelter. There are Life Skills classes, educational and vocational guidance, and much more. Each day our free baby sitting allows moms to return to school and work. Each day, through your help and the grace of God, every mom and baby in our home experiences Christian love.
For this Mother's Day, show your appreciation with a gift made to Good Counsel Homes in honor of your own mother, wife, grandmother, or anyone that deserves to be celebrated! Please email Silvana Cowden or call 201.795.0637 to have a Mother's Day card sent on your behalf.
May God bless you and all Moms this Mother's Day.
Peace,
Christopher Bell
Executive Director of Good Counsel
Good Counsel Featured on WPIX-TV for Helping Homeless Pregnant Woman
Jessica was pregnant and homeless until she sent a video of herself to a WPIX-TV reporter Monica Morales recently.
Good Counsel is featured when Monica brings Jessica to our Bronx home. Click below to see more of this story.
Chris Bell on WFJS
Chris Bell appeared Friday Dec 16th on WFJS, a Catholic radio station in Trenton NJ. Chris is pictured with Cheryl Manfredonia during their interview which is being archived on Domestichchurchmedia.org
Chris and Good Counsel's Joe Quattrocchi also appeared with Jim Manfredonia, who hosts "Friday With Jim & Cheryl" on WFJS. WFJS is a Catholic radio station in Trenton NJ and can be heard through central NJ and part of eastern Pennsylvania at 1260 AM & 89.3 FM.
Chris was able to share an Advent/Christmas message as well as speak about Good Counsel's newest home in Riverside, New Jersey which opened in April. Jim and Cheryl Manfredonia started WFJS and transmit some EWTN programming as well as some locally produced radio shows.
Msgr. Weber Honored at Concert for Life
Msgr. Edward J. Weber, Vicar of Rockland and Pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in West Nyack, was honored Nov. 20 for his pro-life work at the annual Concert for Life, held for the benefit of Good Counsel’s Home for expecting and parenting moms in Spring Valley.
Fr. Jim McKenna, SDB, Director the the Marian Shrine and Don Bosco Retreat Center in Stony Point, welcomed the audience to the shrine chapel “to celebrate life, to celebrate music, and to celebrate Msgr. Weber, who has pooled his strength and determination to make us in Rockland a ‘people of life.’ (READ MORE)
What Makes a Pro-life 'Extremist' ? By Theresa Bonopartis
I have often wondered what the boundaries are to move you from pro-life, to pro life ‘extremist.” Are you extreme if you think every life is precious and work to end abortion? Would the fact that you speak out on abortions truth make you extreme? How about praying in front of clinics, writing letters, or for that matter publishing articles against abortion? Does being “extreme” automatically classify you as a potential terrorist in our current political climate? And, why is being extreme when it comes to the death of 4,000 babies a day in utero a bad thing? Read More
I Will Not Apologize for My Post-Abortive Faith, by Theresa Bonopartis
If only the Church would leave women alone, there would be no guilt after abortion. Men, too, could send their babies to their deaths and not give it a second thought. All would be well in Abortionland.
Or so pro-abortion activists would have us believe. Are they right? Of course not.
Defenders of abortion refuse to publicly acknowledge the terrible guilt pangs men and women suffer after aborting their children. This is a logical extension of their illogical refusal to acknowledge that abortion is the destruction of human life.
They’re playing a game of smoke and mirrors: One needn’t be religiously inclined at all to see that abortion is not a religious issue — it’s a human-rights issue. Read More
Reclaiming Our Children, by Theresa Bonopartis
I must admit, sometimes in this abortion debate I feel like I am floating on the periphery, looking on, while the world dissects and argues about abortion, and concerning the unborn and the women who have them.
For me, as a post-abortive mother, it is much more personal. It is about reclaiming my child.
It is about relationships, family, and my son, who is now “living in the Lord” (Gospel of Life, JPII).
At seventeen years old, I hid my pregnancy from my parents for over four months. When I finally told them, I was asked to leave the house and forget that I was their daughter. Coming from a Catholic family, it was the one scenario I had not played out in my head.
Staying temporarily at a friend’s, the pressures to abort began: I fought with the baby’s father, and my own father began having my sister call me telling me to have an abortion. With no job, no money and no place go, in the end, I gave in to his demands — like many other women, it was not because of free choice, it was because I felt I had no choice. .Read More
Fr. Benedict Groeschel invited Christopher Bell and his wife, Joan, on EWTN
Truth About Abortion and Depression, by Theresa Bonopartis, Director of Lumina
This latest "professional" study insults our intelligence when it denies our experiences and blatantly attempts to override truth. We have now had over 50 million abortions performed in our country and unlike years ago, we all know someone who has suffered because of it. Reality can only be denied for so long, yet in spite of more and more women speaking out about the harm abortion has caused them, the American Psychological Association and studies such as this one continue to deny our experiences. Read More
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