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And Jesus Wept... |
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I
have
carved you
on the palms
of my hands
Isaiah
49.16
Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death;
don't stand back
and watch them die.
(Proverbs 24:11, TLB).
Herod sent and killed all the
(fe)male children in Bethlehem
and
in all that region who were two
years old or
under
Mt.2.16
"Before I formed thee in the belly
I knew thee; and before thou
camest forth
out of the womb I sanctified thee..."
Jeremiah
1:5
My soul is sorrowful even
to death
Mt.26.38
And being in agony he
prayed more earnestly; and his
sweat
became like great drops of
blood falling down upon
the
ground
Luke 22.44
Pro-life prayer
O Mary, bright dawn of the new world,
Mother of the living,
to you do we entrust the cause of life:
Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbers
of babies not allowed
to be born,
of the poor whose lives are made difficult,
of men and
woman who are victims of brutal violence,
of the elderly and sick
killed by indifference
or out of misguided mercy.
Grant that all
who believe in your Son
may proclaim the Gospel of life
with
honest and love to the people of our time.
Obtain for them the grace
to accept that
Gospel as a gift ever new,
the joy of celebrating
it with gratitude
throughout their lives
and the courage to bear
witness to it resolutely,
in order to build,
together with all
people of good will,
the civilisation of truth and love,
to the
praise and glory of God,
the Creator and lover of life.
Pope
John Paul II
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