A QUOTE FROM FR. THOMAS EUTENEUR: Abortion is a demonic industry.
Abortion is the sacrifice of innocent blood to the devil.
The clinics are like temples.
The doctors are like priests.
the medical table is the altar.
It's a ritualized sacrifice.
They have dogma called choice,
a hierarchy called Planned Parenthood,
and guardian angels in the form of police guards
that will arrest you if you try to stop them.
Abortionists have called abortion their sacrament.
Abortion is a spiritual evil.
If we are to beat it, we can't just fight it in the political realm.
It derives its power from below.
TO CONFRONT A FORCE THIS STRONG, YOU NEED A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF PRAYER.
Abortion is the inversion of goodness and truth. The novel, Rosemary's Baby, on screen with Mia Farrow as Rosemary, tells the story of the demon's birth. Everything is a reverse of the Nativity story. The child is a human demon conceived in violence by Satan. The "angels" are a coven of witches/warlocks whose ordinariness is like that of the drab little clerk Adolph Eichmann who sent millions of Jews to their death. Rosemary, innocent of the evil plot, is caught up in its effects like the innocent in every age. Her husband, unlike the just Joseph, is grasping and self-centered, an unjust man to the core. He's made a pact with the devil offering his wife as a sacrifice, like so many men who coerce their wives or girlfriends into making the bloody abortion sacrifice. After the demon's birth three men in black come bearing gifts. The book and movie are eerie in their portrayal of evil as the inversion of good.
It is an ancient story. Evil always mimics good; that's one of its hallmarks. Why? Because, as St. Thomas Aquinas tells us, people never choose evil directly. They choose a good so they can rationalize their sinful behavior. Women going into Planned Parenthood don't choose the baby's bloody corpse; they choose their education, or their job, or their reputation. They choose their trip to Fort Lauderdale on spring break with a trim body that will look good in a bikini. They choose "freedom."
Pro-lifers need to strip the lid off the garbage pit and expose the stinking truth. That's why the pictures of the tiny victims are so necessary. They uncover the self-delusion that kills - not only the babies, but the peace of mind of their parents.
Pray the rosary every day for an end to abortion and the release of this country from the grips of the Culture of Death. Our Lady help of Christians, pray for us.
Padre's analysis is quite right, of course, which incidentally is why shooting abortionists was at best but a means to avoid the more demanding obligations of abortion's demonic tribute to hell's nihilism.
ReplyDeleteYet tho prayer is the foundation of resistance, of the alternative to hell & nihilism, its necessity is not of itself sufficient, especially when prayer is but talking to God, as opposed also to listening.
The example of Joan Andrews and the rescue movement, tho today dormant, remains the form to which such prayer must ultimately aspire - not necessarily in any individual's life per se, but as the goal toward which prayer & the pro-life movement must tend & embrace - if our prayers are ready to listen, in order also to be heard.
Such an aspiration must be met due not only to the enormity of the massive slaughter, but of the spiritual principle for all upon which that slaughter rests - as Padre notes.
The enormity demands a response of comparable magnitude. Until such time as a religious order, of one, or two, or ten or 100 or a thousand or more Christians are paradoxically prepared to sacrifice everything they are in their lives entitled to pursue, but to sacrifice these in order to affirm that pursuit's value, then our prayers can only go so far, and never far enough.
Such a witness has been made, albeit not with the lifetime commitment the institutionalized killing objectively demands. If even one man or woman were to rescue, & refuse all self-defense or even conversation with the faux legal authorities save to demand release in order to rescue again (& doing so again if released); if the rescuer was accordingly prepared to spend his or her or their lives in jail simply thus by doing the right (& legal) thing, it would mean that no unborn children would die without at least that one (or more) born champion(s) willing to embrace some measure of the injustice done to the innocent.
And thus none would die totally, or at least substantially abandoned, on a human level, as today so many do. As long as that obtains, as long as we continue to avoid the sacrificial response to the horror that abortion demands for the living as well as the killed, then our collective prayer will have about it a hesitancy likely to be noticed in Heaven, as it emphatically is here on earth.
Thus when we pray, it should be that someone, that by God's call oneself, will find the grace to imitate our Lord in a willingness to sacrifice the good life offers, precisely to affirm its glory.
Since it is without caveat, that is a prayer one may be confident will please our Lord, and be answered accordingly.
In Christo Rege - Antigon