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I couldn’t be at the March for Life in Washington yesterday, but I wanted to do something besides pray at home..So I went to the local abortion clinic which is about ten minutes from my house, where I’ve often prayed during the 40 Days for Life campaign. The facility sits in a plaza off a main highway and when keeping vigil, we’re only allowed to stand by the main road. We can’t go beyond a certain point in the parking lot.
Yesterday, no one was by the roadside praying, so I decided to sit in my car parked right outside the office of that death mill and pray the rosary. Sadly, as at other times, I witnessed a young woman come out after her procedure, her face pale, her body bent over seeming to wince from the pain. Then, someone I assumed was the boyfriend, quickly whisked her to a car and bolted out of the parking lot like outlaws running from the police….only it’s all perfectly legal.
I never leave that place that I don’t feel consumed with grief and spiritual oppression. When I finished praying and before leaving the plaza, I drove around back where I know the doctor and workers park. I recognize his car because– on more than one occasion– he sped past us when we were all standing out front….coming as close as he could without hitting anyone. I parked and prayed again;
For the sake of His sorrowful passion…Have mercy on us, Lord.
I was very encouraged by the presence of so many young people at The March for Life yesterday, and I’m sure many will provide a strong presence today at the West Coast March. Thank the Lord. We need their young, fearless enthusiasm and love of God because increasingly, the darkness encroaches against life and nothing but the power of God is going to stop it.
If you have the stomach for it, go to Salon. Com, a very liberal site and read the article titled, “So What if Abortion Ends Life?”
Yes, you read that right. That’s the new argument..I quote the author, Mary Elizabeth Williams,
“Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers.
Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.”
And this,
“And I would put the life of a mother over the life of a fetus every single time — even if I still need to acknowledge my conviction that the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing.”
That is blatantly wicked and downright evil.
However, we cannot despair, for as Catholic’s, we have every weapon we need to combat the devil and his lies.
- Mass
- Sacraments
- Scripture
- rosary
- prayer
- fasting
- the saints
And we will not be defeated, because we stand on the Word of God and all His promises ~
…no weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, says the LORD.—Isaiah 54:17
Padre Pio always wore the Rosary around his arm at night. A few days before his death, as Padre Pio was getting into bed, he said to the friars who were in his room, “Give me my weapon!” And the friars, surprised and curious, asked him:
“Where is the weapon? We cannot see anything!” Padre Pio replied, “It is in my habit, which you have just hung up!” After having gone through the pockets of his religious habit, the friars said to him: “Padre, there is no weapon in your habit! . . . we can only find your rosary beads there!”
Padre Pio immediately said, “And is this not a weapon? . . . the true weapon?!”
—link
May we all take up our weapon to battle against the forces who are destroying life.
+PAX
- Photo credit
- h/t ChurchMilitant.TV for Salon article
January 26th, 2013 at 8:41 pm
It is so chilling to hear how casually people speak about newly-conceived life as though it were a pest to be gotten rid of, like bugs or rodents. Is this not the way the Nazis spoke of the lives they snuffed out? The person who wrote “so what if abortion ends a life” would surely never say “so what if an AR-15 Bushmaster wiped out 20 kids”. This is the utter hypocrisy of our times. If we can’t protect life at its most vulnerable, we will not protect it any stage. What a national tragedy.
Thanks for your witness yesterday Caroline. God bless
January 26th, 2013 at 11:56 pm
I felt I had a companion by my side in prayer as I read your post. Thank you. More and more, I feel like I live in some of the sci-fi novels I read in my teens. Thank you for speaking what I am feeling so deeply but am having trouble voicing this week.
January 27th, 2013 at 1:29 am
Joyce..It is bone chilling to hear the way people so casually speak about babies in the womb..and now, readily admit they don’t care if you do call it a baby..So what. To me..it’s no different than how the Nazi’s spoke of the lives they so casually extinguished. As if it were a societal good. That’s what these people are saying today….and in the distortion of our times– apparently continue to gain a listening audience. It is indeed a national and global tragedy.
Lord help us..
You write so powerfully on your site against the hypocrisy, exposing it for what it is..
Thank you for your witness.
Blessings always and +
January 27th, 2013 at 1:38 am
Nancy, It does feel like that, doesn’t it? A sci-fi movie..That would almost be a more acceptable explanation for what we’re witnessing today than humans with reasoning powers given them by the Lord..who have chosen to make these decisions by an act of their will.
I’m thankful every day for the companionship in prayer God has given us in this online community.
The times are so dark…He knew we’d all need each other…
Many days your posts on prayer, contemplation, quotes from the saints help direct me to prayer.
Blessings to you always and +
January 28th, 2013 at 1:33 am
Oh Caroline…that those were actual quotes from another human being! The word “chilling” has already been used, but it was the first to come to mind. I remember when it was only a little “blob” that they were killing..or maybe not even alive, etc., all the lies told when Roe was first legalized. But now they KNOW they really KNOW. We have ultrasound. So, they don’t even pretend it isn’t a baby.
I can’t help but echo Nancy’s comment as well…we are living in a sci-fi book or movie..much worse than the ones we read in high school. I am hearing more and more about people being “euthanized” in our own country…since it’s legal in Oregon and at least one other state. This is insane!
God bless you for staying and praying at that place, even though you were alone. Only the Lord can overturn such evil, and thank you for reminding us of our weapons.
Hugs to you for being so brave. I know your rosary made a difference.
Love you….
January 28th, 2013 at 3:49 pm
Patricia, It just seems to keep unraveling right before our eyes..One thing my mom and aunt always remind me about their war years in Italy, was how quickly things degenerated to evil and once they did, how irreversible it was until the war finally ended. How blind can we be as a culture not to recognize this as outright murder especially after admitting that it IS a human life?
When I got home that day I went on the abortion clinic’s website and found that they do procedures up till the 24th week. All I could think of was my little grand-baby safe in her mother’s womb but all the babies that will never be born as a result of this one chamber of death.
I feel like in this blessing of a grandchild, I’ve been given a new call to commitment to pray for the unborn. …To whom much is given…..
Been praying for you …Hope your feeling better.
Love always, blessings and +