- By Deacon Keith Fournier
- 11/9/2010
- Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Why are four thousand preborn children slaughtered every day?
'These are the very least of Christ's brethren, the poorest of the poor. Why are these aborted babies the very least? Because they're small, helpless, utterly and completely dependent? Yes. Because in terms of what the world values, they didn't contribute anything? Yes. But the real reason is because they received the least charity. Indeed, while they lived, they received no charity at all.'
Why are four thousand preborn children slaughtered every day?
LANSING, MI (Catholic Online) - Citizens for a Pro-Life Society has announced that Bishop Earl Boyea of the Diocese of Lansing will celebrate the funeral Mass for 17 victims of abortion and preside at their burial on November 20, 2010. I wrote about these children in an article entitled "Children Found in Dumpsters in Two Cities: When our Children Become Trash"
The Funeral Mass will be held at St. Mary's Cathedral, 219 Seymour Avenue--located on the corner of Seymour and Ionia Streets in the heart of Lansing, Michigan. The babies will be buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan. The Citizens for a Pro-Life Society indicated in their Press Release, "These aborted babies were retrieved from the trash by pro-life activist Chris Veneklase on February 26, 2010.
"They were killed in January of this year at the Woman's Choice abortion clinic in Lansing and dumped into a trash container that services the office park where the clinic is located. The 17 bags that contained the babies' remains were marked with the mother's full names and the date of their abortion. CPLS joined Veneklase in several subsequent trash dumpster searches-- both of the Womans Choice clinic in Lansing and its sister clinic in Saginaw. Extensive medical waste and several patient records were discovered."
Accompanying their Press Release the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society released this moving eulogy given by a hero of the unborn, Dr. Monica M. Miller on August 6, 1988 at the Roselawn Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL., when 721 babies, killed by abortion, were buried:
Eulogy of Dr. Monica M. Miller for the Children Killed by Abortion
"We are gathered here today to perform the seventh corporal work of mercy, to bury the dead. Ironically, the last work of mercy-to bury the dead- is the first kindness shown to these little ones killed in the abortion mills.
"Our Lord, hung on the cross, was held in scorn- reviled, hated, rejected by His own people. These unborn babies have been taken up into his suffering and when we took their bodies off of the loading dock, it was as if we had taken Christ off the cross.
"These are the very least of Christ's brethren, the poorest of the poor. Why are these aborted babies the very least? Because they're small, helpless, utterly and completely dependent? Yes. Because in terms of what the world values, they didn't contribute anything? Yes. But the real reason is because they received the least charity. Indeed, while they lived, they received no charity at all.
"This is the key to ending the holocaust: charity. We must show real love toward those whom the world hates. We must become saints and be filled with the compassion of saints. Why are four thousand preborn children slaughtered every day? This slaughter is a harvest of hate and despair- hate for God and the mystery and beauty of creation and despair over human existence itself.
"A return to true Christian charity: this is what will end abortion. And it is not a very easy route, but it's the only one that will really work.
"These are the bodies of God's children crushed up in a scream of "no" to Him. These are real people who really lived once, who were really killed, and so over their bodies, that bear literally in their limbs the horror of their deaths, we mourn.
"It is the faith of the Church that must sustain us, that enduring faith that teaches against all despair that the dead shall rise. These babies, baptized in their blood, shall rise. Seven hundred and twenty-one human beings shall rise from this tomb. Justice will be done for them.
" Jesus has promised it to us and to them. He shall wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, mourning, crying out, or pain, for the former world has passed away."
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Keywords: charity, unborn victimes, Pro-Life, Corporal Works of Mercy, Abortion, Burial, Babies, preborn
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May God have mercy on us someday. As He said, "Father they know not what they do." These words ring true today, we know not what we do in blindness and self-denial we close off the light. We are ignorant and uncaring in this cold desolate world. We are blind to the way, the truth and light in all we do. He said, "Without me you can do nothing." He was right then as He is right now. In our blindness to take life we do not understand that we are set apart in nature from the animals because He made us in His likeness. This is not said of any other creature in the animal kingdom. It is not said in any other textbook of knowledge that I know of in the world in modern let alone ancient times. So Hawkins says there is no real science in the theology of the bible. I think there is much knowledge and wisdom in the Bible and we can find it in our Lord Jesus Christ. Its the best philosopy I can come up with. In our selfishness we destroy that which is vulnerable and surreal.
Bishop Earl Boyea is a hero and deserves a standing ovation. If the rest of the USCCB were like him, abortion would soon be brought to an end in our country. The bodies of those murdered babies are trophies of the Liberal Establishment.
"This is the key to ending the holocaust: charity. We must show real love toward those whom the world hates. We must become saints and be filled with the compassion of saints." Maybe we need an operation dumpster dive - and we should burn oil lamps over the graves so that if their mothers return to the Church, they receive healing oil as an outward and visible sign of the sanctity of life destroyed indifferently in a fallen world. "Blessed in His sight is the death of His Saints". We must fight this evil with Liturgy - with the work of the People - corporate prayer as One Body.
As a woman who has had an abortion, and through the mercy of God found forgiveness, help and healing through Rachel's Vineyard, I can only say that this brings new feelings of guilt and remorse to my heart. I can only pray that my sweet child was not treated in such a foul manner, but I will never know. Thank you to this wonderful Bishop and all those who help him. Thank you to those who rescued these precious little ones, may they continue their good work. I pray everyone woman who has had an abortion experience finds peace and forgiveness and that speard the truth of the horrors of abortion, not just for the babies but for the mommies too.
What is also sad is the picture that is scrolling on this web site. Is that a church? There are people in a circle. That's not a church, that's a community room, but I see what might be considered and ambo and candles so I assume this is the sanctuary. Anyone reading the documents and theology behind how to build a church anymore? The altar at the head, no wings, all piews facing the same direction, house of stone and light, incense. I'm only 40, and I know this stuff. It's all there for those ot read, but we have expert church builders who have never read a lick of these documents nor understand the physical theology of the mass.
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Each day I pray, as a bishop once taught me, to say: For the unborn, who have been aborted; by the blood they have shed, may they be baptized in the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Our lady also said in one of her apparitions that the unborn souls who have been aborted, are with her!
Deacon John
