2009 MC Marathon: "Et státuit super petram pedes meos: et diréxit gressus meos."

Exspéctans exspectávi Dóminum, * et inténdit mihi.
Et exaudívit preces meas: * et edúxit me de lacu misériæ, et de luto fæcis.
Et státuit super petram pedes meos: * et diréxit gressus meos.
Et immísit in os meum cánticum novum, * carmen Deo nostro.
Vidébunt multi, et timébunt: * et sperábunt in Dómino.
Beátus vir, cujus est nomen Dómini spes ejus: * et non respéxit in vanitátes et insánias falsas.
Multa fecísti tu, Dómine, Deus meus, mirabília tua: * et cogitatiónibus tuis non est qui símilis sit tibi.
Annuntiávi et locútus sum: * multiplicáti sunt super númerum.
Sacrifícium et oblatiónem noluísti: * aures autem perfecísti mihi.
Holocáustum et pro peccáto non postulásti: * tunc dixi: Ecce, vénio.
In cápite libri scriptum est de me ut fácerem voluntátem tuam: * Deus meus, vólui, et legem tuam in médio cordis mei.

-- Psalmus 39(1-9), Feria tertia ad Tertiam, Breviarium Romanum

Thanks be to Almighty God for having completed the 2009 Marine Corps Marathon. More details at A Priest Life.

James Lawrence Pouillon: "Inimíci mei dixérunt mala mihi: 'Quando moriétur, et períbit nomen ejus?' "

Beátus qui intélligit super egénum, et páuperem: * in die mala liberábit eum Dóminus.
Dóminus consérvet eum, et vivíficet eum, et beátum fáciat eum in terra: * et non tradat eum in ánimam inimicórum ejus.
Dóminus opem ferat illi super lectum dolóris ejus: * univérsum stratum ejus versásti in infirmitáte ejus.
Ego dixi: Dómine, miserére mei: * sana ánimam meam, quia peccávi tibi.
Inimíci mei dixérunt mala mihi: * Quando moriétur, et períbit nomen ejus?
Et si ingrediebátur ut vidéret, vana loquebátur: * cor ejus congregávit iniquitátem sibi.
Egrediebátur foras, * et loquebátur in idípsum.
Advérsum me susurrábant omnes inimíci mei: * advérsum me cogitábant mala mihi.
Verbum iníquum constituérunt advérsum me: * Numquid qui dormit non adjíciet ut resúrgat?
Étenim homo pacis meæ, in quo sperávi: * qui edébat panes meos, magnificávit super me supplantatiónem.
Tu autem, Dómine, miserére mei, et resúscita me: * et retríbuam eis.
In hoc cognóvi quóniam voluísti me: * quóniam non gaudébit inimícus meus super me.
Me autem propter innocéntiam suscepísti: * et confirmásti me in conspéctu tuo in ætérnum.
Benedíctus Dóminus, Deus Israël, a sæculo et usque in sæculum: * fiat, fiat.

-- Psalmus 40, S. Eduardi Regis Confessoris ad Sextam, Breviarium Romanum

Photo source: The Flint Journal

Read about James Lawrence Pouillon, 63, of Owosso, Michigan, pro-life martyr assassinated in witness for unborn and all victims of the cult of death, here.

Longtime friend and fellow activist Judy Climer, president of Flint Right to Life, described Pouillon as "just a nice, elderly gentleman who was disabled, used an oxygen tank and wore leg braces."

Climer said Pouillon had a regular weekly schedule of visits to abortion clinics in Flint and Saginaw, where he would park across the street and pray when abortions were allegedly being conducted.

"I knew him very well. He told me one time God put in his heart a passion for the little babies that have the right to be born and they were being denied that right," said Climer, who said Pouillon often stopped at her office for coffee breaks as he drove from one location to another to demonstrate.

"He even told me once he'd be willing to die for that belief. That's what I hear him saying right now." (Source: Flint Journal and MLive.)