Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
All Bible References are from: NAB, The New American Bible A great prayer for life is
urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world. Through
special initiatives and in daily prayer, may an impassioned plea rise to God,
the Creator and lover of life, from every Christian community, from every group
and association, from every family and from the heart of every believer.” – Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of
Life (Evangelium Vitae), n. 100. Pro-Life RosaryAgainst the Holocaust of Abortion
On the Crucifix (Prayer for life by Pope John Paul II)
(Prayer of Fulton J. Sheen) Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love Thee very much. Our Father
For an increase in Faith Hope and Charity Three Hail Marys
Glory Be to the Father
the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, April 5, 2000)
(Genesis 1:26 NAB) Hail Mary
God created man in his image;
in the divine image he created
him; male and female he created them.
... and she [Eve] conceived and bore Cain,
saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the LORD."
Your hands have formed me and fashioned me;
Oh, remember that You fashioned me from clay!
With skin and flesh You clothed me,
with bones and sinews knit me together.
Hear me, O coastlands, listen, O distant peoples.
The LORD called me from birth,
from my mother's womb he gave me my name.
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.
See, upon the palms of my hands I have written your name...
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I dedicated you,
a prophet to the nations I appointed you..."
Glory Be Fatima Prayer
(Genesis 9:6 NAB) Hail Mary
"You shall keep away from anything dishonest.
The innocent and the just you shall not put to death,
nor shall you acquit the guilty."
"You shall not offer any of your offspring to be immolated to
Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the LORD."
They worshiped their idols and were ensnared by them.
They sacrificed to the gods their own sons and daughters, ...
... Shedding innocent blood, the blood
of their own sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
desecrating the land with bloodshed.
They defiled themselves by their actions,
became adulterers by their conduct.
So the LORD grew angry with his people,
abhorred his own heritage.
He handed them over to the nations,
and their adversaries ruled them.
They immolated their sons and daughters by fire,
practiced fortune-telling and divination,
and sold themselves into evil doing in the LORD'S sight,
provoking him till, in his great anger against Israel,
the LORD put them away out of his sight.
"I let them become defiled by their gifts,
by their immolation of every first-born,
so as to make them an object of horror."
In the Valley of Ben-hinnom they have built the high place
of Topheth to immolate in fire their sons and their daughters,
such a thing as I never commanded or had in mind."
"They have built high places for Baal to immolate
their sons in fire as holocausts to Baal:
such a thing as I neither commanded nor spoke of,
nor did it ever enter my mind."
Thus says the LORD: For three [many] crimes of the Ammonites,
and for four, I will not revoke my word;
Because they ripped open expectant mothers in Gilead,
while extending their territory,
I will kindle a fire upon the wall of Rabbah [Amman],
and I will devour her castles...
Glory Be Fatima Prayer
(Psalm 7:10 NAB) Hail Mary
... the LORD, who spreads out the heavens,
lays the foundations of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:
Did not he who made me in the womb make him?
Did not the same One fashion us before our birth?
But the children in her womb jostled each other
so much that she exclaimed, "If this is to be so,
what good will it do me!" She went to consult the LORD,
and he answered her: "Two nations are in your womb,
two peoples are quarreling while still within you;
But one shall surpass the other,
and the older shall serve the younger."
The God of your father, who helps you, God Almighty,
who blesses you, With the blessings of the heavens above,
the blessings of the abyss that crouches below,
"See that you do not despise one of these little ones,
for I say to you that their angels in heaven always
look upon the face of My heavenly Father."
Thus says the LORD who made you, your help,
who formed you from the womb: Fear not,
O Jacob, my servant, the darling whom I have chosen.
Thus says the LORD, your redeemer,
who formed you from the womb:
I am the LORD, who made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens;
when I spread out the earth, who was with me?
Jesus replied, " 'You shall not kill; ...
Hence, now there is no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus
has freed you from the law of sin and death.
Glory Be Fatima Prayer
(Luke 1:39-41 NAB) Hail Mary
... and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit,
cried out in a loud voice and said,
"Most blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me,
that the mother of my Lord
should come to me?
For at the moment the sound
of your greeting reached my ears,
the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
When eight days were completed for his circumcision,
he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel
before he was conceived in the womb.
For now the LORD has spoken who formed me as
his servant from the womb, That Jacob may be
brought back to him and Israel gathered to him;
And I am made glorious in the sight of the LORD,
and my God is now my strength!
But when [God], who from my mother's womb had set
me apart and called me through his grace,
was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that
I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, ...
When Herod realized that he had been deceived
by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the
massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its
vicinity two years old and under, in accordance
with the time he had ascertained from the magi.
Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet:
"A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud
lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children,
and she would not be consoled, since they were no more."
"Whoever causes one of these little ones
who believe (in me) to sin, it would be better
for him if a great millstone were put around
his neck and he were thrown into the sea."
People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them,
and when the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.
Jesus, however, called the children to himself and said,
"Let the children come to me and do not prevent them;
for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."
"Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God
like a child will not enter it."
Glory Be Fatima Prayer
(Psalm 8:5-6 NAB) Hail Mary
Yet you drew me forth from the womb, made me
safe at my mother's breast.
Upon you I was thrust from the womb;
since birth you are my God.
Do not stay far from me, for trouble is near,
and there is no one to help.
True, I was born guilty, a sinner,
even as my mother conceived me.
Still, you insist on sincerity of heart;
in my inmost being teach me wisdom.
You are my hope, Lord; my trust, GOD, from my youth.
On you I depend since birth; from my mother's womb
you are my strength; my hope in you never wavers.
That the next generation might come to know,
children yet to be born.
In turn they were to recite them to their children,
that they too might put their trust in God,
And not forget the works of God,
keeping his commandments.
Children too are a gift from the LORD,
the fruit of the womb, a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the
children born in one's youth. Blessed are
they whose quivers are full.
You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb.
I praise you, so wonderfully you made me; wonderful are your works!
My very self you knew;
... my bones were not hidden from you,
When I was being made in secret,
fashioned as in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes foresaw my actions;
in your book all are written down;
my days were shaped,
Glory Be Fatima Prayer
(Prayer of Fr. Frank Pavone) Lord God, I thank You today for the gift of my life and for the lives of all my brothers and sisters. I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion, yet I rejoice that You have conquered death by the resurrection of Your Son. I am ready to do my part in ending abortion. Today I commit myself never to be silent, never to be passive, never to be forgetful of the unborn. I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement, and never to stop defending life until all my brothers and sisters are protected, and our nation once again becomes a nation with liberty and justice not just for some, but for all, through Christ our Lord. Amen. (~Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life)
(Meditation of Henry
Hyde) Perhaps Henry Hyde’s best remembered commentary on the
issue of abortion is this quote: When the time comes as it surely
will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought,
as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no
advocates, you are there alone standing before God and a terror will rip
through your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those
in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there will be a chorus of
voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and
clearly in the next world and they will plead for everyone who has been in this
movement. They will say to God, "Spare him because he loved us," and
God will look at you and say not, "Did you succeed?" but "Did
you try?"
(Remarks of the Honorable Henry J.
Hyde Before the U.S. House of
Representatives on H.R. 3660 - The Partial Birth
Abortion Ban Act April 5, 2000) Mr. Speaker, I cannot imagine any subject more important
than the one we debate today. This debate is not about religious doctrine or
even about policy options. It is a debate about our understanding of human
dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny,
powerless and unwanted. Yesterday, we discussed organ transplants, another
life-and-death issue. But today's debate goes beyond that to the issue of
whether one radical medical procedure, called partial-birth abortion, is an
acceptable exercise of a woman's right to choose. And by the way, that choice
is either a dead baby or a live baby. That is the choice, whether it is a
woman's right to choose or whether it is the surgical butchery of what a
prominent pro-choice Senator called infanticide. We are knee deep in a culture of death. The cheapening of
life is demonstrated in the high school shootings, the coarsening of our
national conscience by our entertainment industry, the fact that since Roe v.
Wade in 1973 there have been 35 million abortions. We are knee deep in a
culture of death. I should ask the people who support this procedure to
forgive my use of the word abortion. I know they dislike that harsh word. They
prefer euphemisms like termination of a pregnancy. Every pregnancy terminates
at the end of 9 months. Or `removal of the products of conception.' And the
word killing is to be avoided like the plague. So the little infant is not killed, but rather `undergoes
demise.' But as the great heavyweight boxer Joe Louis said about his one-time
opponent Billy Conn years ago, `You can run, but you can't hide.' And we cannot
hide from the ugly reality of partial-birth infanticide. To those who think that the phrase `sanctity of life' is
too theological, although we are kind of comfortable with the sanctity of an
oath or the sanctity of a contract, I suggest the notion of human dignity is
interchangeable and appropriate. Now, the Declaration of Independence, an awkward document
in this debate, proclaims the right to life is an endowment from the Creator
and is an inalienable right. Have my colleagues ever seen a doctor have a card that
says `eyes, ear, nose, throat, and abortionist?' Somehow, there is something
bad about that word. So when an abortionist plunges his scissors into the back
of the neck of his tiny, squirming, struggling-to-live victim, he has
obliterated and utterly irrevocably destroyed that little infant's right to
life and his human dignity. Oh, we posture, we pronounce about human rights,
everybody's human rights, whether in China or Serbia or Colombia. Well, not everybody's
human rights, because we deny any rights to the target of every abortion. PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, God how
I wish we had one for humans, especially the tiny, powerless, defenseless ones
who find themselves innocently inconvenient. We talk about our birthright. By what right do we steal
anyone's birthright? But that is what happens in every abortion. We treat the
unborn as a thing, desensitized, dehumanized, depersonalized thing, to be
discarded with the other junk. Charles Peguy, a French novelist, once said, `If you
possess the truth and remain silent, you become the accomplice of liars and
forgers.' So long as we tolerate this dehumanizing procedure, so
long as we do not draw a line in the sand, we become guilty accomplices in the
slaughter. Lady Macbeth can speak for us when she says, `all the
perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.' Everyone in this Chamber, everyone in this Chamber, has
ancestors that reach back in an unbroken chain of humanity through forgotten
millennia to the first man and woman. And so, we here and now are alive because
our ancestors successfully ran the marathon of life, surviving wars, famines,
floods, earthquakes, disease, the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. But they
survived. They endured through it all. What a cosmic tragedy for this little one four-fifths born
to have his life snuffed out as he is about to cross the finish line of that
millennia long marathon. But here at the beginning of the 21st century, have we
traveled very far from those societies who behead their criminals? And what
crime has this tiny, struggling, four-fifths born infant committed? The crime
of being unwanted. Oh, we have unwanted people, the homeless. But they have
eyes to weep with. They have voices to cry out with. And when we do pay
attention occasionally, we provide them with shelter. But not the little ones
about to `undergo demise.' I recommend my colleagues avert their eyes and take solace
in the fact that the torture of partial-birth abortion takes only the time it
takes to stab the little baby in the back of the neck and the little flailing
arms and legs stiffen at the moment of truth. Look, in this advanced democracy, in the year 2000, is it
our crowning achievement that we have learned to treat people as things? We are
not debating policy options. This is a debate about our understanding of human
dignity. Our moment in history is marked by a mortal conflict between a culture
of life and a culture of death. God put us in the world to do noble things, to love and to
cherish our fellow human beings, not to destroy them. Today we must choose
sides. When Napoleon died, somebody said, God finally got bored
with him. I really am afraid God is going to be bored with us, especially if we
do not put that line in the sand. Support this excellent bill. Step back from the abyss.
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