R.I.P. Monsignor Reilly: "You Will Never Be A Bishop"
Monsignor Reilly was born in New York City on June 21, 1934, and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brooklyn on May 28, 1960.
He has been battling skin cancer for many years. Doctors warned him not to go outside anymore. He followed the advice only to the extent of wearing a hat while spending countless hours in the sun doing sidewalk counseling outside of abortion businesses.
In his later years, much of his nose had to be surgically removed.
Fellow Priest: "You Will Never Be a Bishop"
In the 1980, Monsignor Reilly was involved with various pro-life organizations. He was arrested more than once for blocking the entrance to abortion businesses.
A fellow priest once told him after another arrest: "You will never be a bishop."
"Wait a second", Monsignor Reilly replied: "When did they change the rules? I thought that was a condition to be a bishop. I thought they give you the red cassock to shed your blood for the truth. All the apostles were arrested and put in prison. Jesus Christ was arrested and died for the truth. When did they change the rules?"
Monsignor Reilly's Army: Few Grandparents
In 1989, Monsignor Reilly felt that his political activism was not solving the problem and he began peaceful prayer vigils and sidewalk counseling in front of abortion businesses.
He asked people to join him. He prayed to God in a Eucharist adoration to get an army to change the culture of death.
This is the army that came: Three grandmothers, a grandfather and a young woman who had just started her career in the business world.
From this small group, the organization "Helpers of God's Precious Infants" was born. It grew to help mothers outside abortion businesses throughout the U.S. and later in over forty countries around the world.
Monsignor Reilly also mobilized bishops and cardinals to lead prayer vigils outside abortion businesses.
Patience: 23 Years until the Abortion Business Closed
For 23 years, Monsignor Reilly prayed outside of New York City's first abortion business: "Hundreds of workers have left, thousands of mothers chose life, and finally, finally, the owners of the clinic have had a conversion. So you have to be patient," he recalled in a 2012 Gloria.tv video.
Monsignor Reilly finally saw the abortion mill close down. The former abortuary reopened as a facility for specialty surgeries, doing only healing medicine, and asked Monsignor Reilly "to come and bless the place".
In his lifetime, he has personally seen more than two dozen abortion businesses close down.
Prophetic: "High-Tech Totalitarianism"
In a 2010 Gloria.tv video, Monsignor Reilly warned that by denying the Creator, the degradation of man is inevitable:
"This time, man is enslaved by modern progressive high-tech totalitarianism. The secular state and the atheistic scientists will remake this world in their image and likeness."
And: "Philosophically, everything now seems to be in place for the brave new world of genetic cleansing of the human race."
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