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PRAYING THE WAY OF THE INCARNATION: EXCHANGE OF PROPHETIC GREETINGS - DAY 8 STRUEB, Hans and/or Jakob THIRD STATION "John was "filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb" by Christ himself, whom the Virgin Mary had just conceived by the Holy Spirit. Mary's visitation to Elizabeth thus became a visit from God to his people." Catechism of the Catholic Church (717) A MORNING OFFERING "O Jesus, I adore Thee in Thy temporal conception, and in Thy presence in the sacred womb of Thy most pure mother, for the space of nine months, and in Thy birth into this world at the end of that time.... I give myself to Thee, O my Dear Jesus, that I may now repeat the acts Thou didst perfect while dwelling from all eternity in the bosom of the Father, and for nine months in the womb of Thy mother. (St. John Eudes, The Life and the Kingdom of Jesus in Christian Souls) Visit the website: Unborn Word Alliance Visit the blog version of: Unborn Word of the day |
Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.