October 8, 2014

This morning my sister Maureen and I were at the abortion facility. We went early and it was cold, dark, and raining.

As we began to pray Maureen commented on how people around us seem so oblivious to what goes on at the site. How they just walk by and probably don't even think about it. About how what goes on there, is all hidden behind closed doors. Out of sight out of mind maybe. If people could actually see what goes on, would that make them care? I don't know. It's so incredibly sad.

As we were holding the sign which reads ‘“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you’ God”, Maureen thought of something our Pastor Fr. Yves Marchildon said in his homily at mass a couple of Sundays ago. He talked about the Pope’s call for each one of us to be Missionary disciples: to bring our Faith and the Word of God to those souls who never get the chance to Hear His Word. And what a beautiful, hopeful and loving message this is from our Heavenly Father. He mentioned the Joy of the Gospel and about taking the Gospel to the peripheries. The abortion site would be a periphery.

And I've been thinking a lot about prayer lately. It's come to me from a couple of different people and events, just how important prayer really is. I busy myself with a lot of abortion advocacy and sometimes find it difficult to just pray and to pay attention to prayer.

But this morning I was fine. We stood there in silence and we prayed. For the babies, for their mothers and for their doctors. That mothers would have a change of heart and seek out help from somewhere other than an abortion facility. That the doctors would realize they are taking a human life and stop what they're doing. Will prayer help? I believe it will. I know it will. Yes we must do all the other things we do to end abortion, all of it is vitally important. But in the end it is prayer and lots of it that will ultimately put an end to abortion.

Patricia Maloney

Sorrowful Mary taken by Pat at the Divine Mercy Centre in Lanark