My Dear People
Jesus said from the Cross: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing”. Perhaps the best known and most classic case of mercifully withholding judgement.
Nowhere is this more important than in the present debate about abortion. One will never slow the tide of abortions by condemning the perpetrators and the victims – for a mother seeking an abortion is as much a victim as the child in her womb.
One must not condemn but convert. This story, told by a mother, may help:
The Lord gave me two sons, one born in 1974 (who died in 1994), the other in 1977. At the age of 33 I was pregnant with a third child, but for several reasons I didn’t want this pregnancy and had an abortion, without realizing that it was really a child. For me he did not yet exist. And since abortion was legal, I went ahead and did it.
Ten years later, when I had forgotten all about it, the Lord showed me this child in a dream. I was really shocked! I felt like I was floating in the air. Then I came face to face with a serene child who looked a little like my second son. He told me that he was mine and that his name was Camille. He was about ten years old, the age he would have been if he had lived. Next to him was another child, who asked him: “Aren’t you blaming her for what she did to you?” But Camille replied: “No, I forgive her.”
I was stunned! I hadn’t sought this revelation, and had suddenly learned that I had a child, that he was in heaven, that his name was Camille, and that he had forgiven me for aborting him!
Thank you, Lord, thank you Mary! What an enormous grace!
I want to testify today that a child exists from the time he is conceived, that an abortion is the murder of a child, and that it brings much suffering to the mother (and probably also to the child). But in his goodness, the Lord doesn’t abandon any of those little ones, who are happy with Mary in the bosom of the Father!
Yours in Christ,
Fr John
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