Today is January 23, 2012, the 39th years after the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortion of human beings up to and including the last day of pregnancy of 9 months.
MOTHERHOOD is such a mystery. It is an invitationi to love...love from the mother, from the father, from the family, from God who created this child in the womb.
When Our Lady said to the Angel said "yes", the Word, the Son of God, became Flesh. Jesus immediately upon her "Yes" was Present in her womb. She was from that moment on to have Holy Communion with Jesus for 9 months. She was invited by the Holy Spirit through the Angel to LOVE.
Mary is the most perfect model for all mothers down the ages how motherhood is the invitation to Love.
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Three modern examples of HEROIC MOTHERHOOD:
1) Saint Gianna Beretta Molla who lived from 1922 to 1962: She was a doctor when she met and married Pietro Molla in 1955. She had 3 children. When pregnant with her 4th child, she was diagnosed with a large ovarian cyst. She was advised to have the fetus/baby aborted and the cyst removed along with the uterus. But she refused and tried natural childbirth. It was unsuccessful. They baby was taken by cesarian section. Before the operation, she told her husband, Pietro: Please save the baby. Make sure the baby lives; and if it comes between me and the baby, choose the baby to live." She died 7 days after the birth of her 4th child who grew up and became a doctor like her mother and very active in pro-life. Never in the history of the Catholic Church has a husband and daughter been present when a wife and mother was cannonized. Gianna was Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1994 and cannonized in St. Peter's in Rome in 2004. St. Gianna refused an abortion to save her own life and gave her own life so that her baby would live. This is heroic virtue and fully accepting of her Invitation from God to love as only a Mother could. St.Gianna is the patron of pregnant women and against abortion. St. Gianna, pray for all pregnant women, now and always. Amen.
2) Jeni Stepanek, Ph.D: All of her beautiful children died as children due to the same illness. Jeni, too, has oxigen and uses a motorized wheelchair. Her most famous child was Matti (Matthew) who was on the Oprah Show and who - even when only 7 years old - had permission from the local bishop to teach catechism to old kids. His wisdom is incredible and told his mom that he would continue in heaven to do good/his mission begun here on earth. There is a 26 acre Peace Park with a statue of Matti which Jeni can see from her home window. Matti's cause for cannonization has begun because of his heroic virtue in the face of a terminal illness. I have heard Matti speak. He had the holiness and coaurage of a true martyr who was giving his life for Christ each day. Jeni misses him but is consoled when she sees from her window all the kids playing in her son's Peace Park. Jeni is courageous and passed that courage on to her 4 children. She is a heroic mom. She truly accepted God's invitation to love.
3) The third heroic woman is your mom who gave birth to you. She did not abort you. She gave birth, loved you and nourished you to become the man and women you are today. She did not take the easy way out. She took the loving way out: giving you life. God bless your and my mom, now and forever. Amen.
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So, when a woman gets an abortion, she declines this invitation to love.
Deciding to abort the child in the womb is the ultimate act of rejecting to love.
[But what of those women who have already had abortions and are sad about it? Here is mos loving HELP and most compasionate support and caring for them: I believe that only God can heal; but He uses women to heal women. This loving community of women of Project Rachel and Rachel's Vinyard are composed of women who have been healed from their abortions and have found forgivenes and healing from God.
1) Locally: Project Rachel: 1-888-722-4355, and http://www.hopeafterabortion.com/ and http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/ and Right to LIfe Central Macomb Affiliate: http://www.rticentralmacomb.org/ and right to LIfe of MI http://www.rtl.org/ and American United for Life http://www.aul.org/
2) Nationally: 1-888-456-HOPE (4673). And Rachel's Vinyard: weekend retreats for women who have had abortions...or for doctors who have done abortions: 1-877-HOPE-4-me and http://www.rachelvinyard.org/ .
And what of women who are pregnant and need help NOW? Let them come for help NOW with all trust in the love God has for them and the love we have for them:
3) Locally: Abigalye Ministeries (sheltering home) 586-323-1411 at 12313 Nineteen Mi. Rd. Sternling Hgts, MI 480313 and Birthright of Macomb 586-254-5930 45464 Van Dyke, Utica, MI 48317 and Compassion Pregnancy Center 586-783-2229 and Imago Dei Crisis Pregnancy Center 586-751-3550 30521 Schoenherr, Warren MI 48088 and Right to LIfe of Michigan, Crisis Hot-Line 1-800-57-WOMAN (1-800-579-6626 Please let these women come for help. They will be welcomed with open arms and love.]
4) Nationally: Crisis Center: 1-800-395-HELP open 24/7.]
Please consider a few issues that the Founder of Project Rachel, Victoria Thorn, has to say. She can be reached on http://www.hopeafterabortion.com/ Here is what she has to say:
1) Women who have had abortions need to experience three events:
a) A relationship with God and His Personal forgiveness; b) spiritual and human healing by grieving over their loss of their baby/ies; and c) forgiveness of of their self. The first thing a women wants when she comes to Project Rachel is to go to confession.
2) Some women remain in denial for a long time, but something "triggers" their incredible sense of loss.
3) Even after going to confession to a priest or to God and receiving His loving mercy, there is still a psychological healing that is needed. This can come by nameing the baby, writing a letter to the baby, greiving over the loss of someone not something.
4) Some women do have a pathological response to their abortions and need deep counseling and loving support from the women of Project Rachel. Deep depression needs to be treated clinically not only spiritually.
5) 70% of marriages do not survive an abortion because it not only effects the living room but also the bedroom.
6) Women healed from Abortion become great healers in their home and in the heart of others.
7) Some post-abortive women turn totally pro-life; but there are some who only become more pro-abortion to try and explain their feelings away of guilt/loss and in order to project this on to other as well as multi more abortions to re-live the traumatic first abortion to heal it by re-living, re-experiering it again - multiple times - to draw out the pain to heal it and process the pain.
8) Many post-abortive women go into drugs, alcohol and promiscuity or go into silent suffering in order to try and not to face their greatest fear: facing oneself.
9) Women who have had an abortion feel a great pain inside them - a sense of great loss - especially if the nurse makes a mistake to let the mother see her aborted child in a jar - which has happened.
10) Post-abortive women feel unworthy to have another child; it is always a great healing when these women do have another child because they see this as a sign that God has forgiven them. And when a child is born to these women, they have a great sense of wonder and beauty of that child which is healing, itself.
11) Men who have been involved in the abortion decision also need healing as do the women. There are three kinds of men: a) those who did not want the abortion [These men have to deal with not being able to protect the child and rage and grief]; b) those who forced the abortion; and those who did not even know about the abortion till later.
When men get to gether in Project Rachel groups, they really call one another to accountability. Those who forced abortions have done so even as much as 7 times.
Men need to be healed just as much as the women do..but in a different way. Just like in Project Rachel "women heal women", so, too, in Project Rachel, "men heal men." The goal in Project Rachel for men is this: to enable men to reclaim their fatherhood.
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I pray that Senator Rand Paul's proposal of "Life at Conception Act" is passed by 2/3rd's majority of Congress.. This act was predicted by the Supreme Court Justice who decided Roe v. Wade who said: "If the suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's (Roe) case completely collapses for the fetus' right to life would be protected by the 14th Amendment." which states: "No State may deprive any person of the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness except by due process of law."
"The Life at Conception Act" declares all fetuses in the womb to be legal human persons protected by the 14th Amendment. This Act is the greatest hope for children in the womb in the last 39 years.
King David faught and won against Golliah because he God was with him to give him strength by the Arm of God. Abortion is the Golliath of today. We will win because God is with us...and will strengthen us and give us victory to save the unborn from being killed.
We are starting the 40th year since Roe v. Wade. This is the year that the great giant of abortion will be put to death just as Golliah was. This legislation is the stone in the sling of David.
We who work in Pro-life will see the giant fall this year. The Phillistines were dumbfounded to see David kill their chapion. So will pro-abortionist be awed and confounded to see all abortion become illegal from coast to coast.
We praise and thank You, Father, for this end to abortion and for raising up a champion: Senator Rand Paul to fling the death-stone that will kill abortion by raising up the ideals and moral values intrinsic to the 14th Amendment.....the "right to light." Please, Father, let it be! - "Fiat!" All this we ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Love, Pio xo
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