Prayer at An Abortion Chamber
This prayer was written in the early 1980's by Fr. Joseph Neilson, O.C.D. to be said by sidewalk counselors outside an abortion mill in Little Rock, Arkansas where Father resided at Marylake Monastery. Father also counseled women and worked tirelessly day and night to help them and the poor. He offered his life as a sacrifice to end the evil of abortion. He wanted to die a horrible, painful death. Instead he was seriously injured in a car accident which left him as helpless as those he had been defending. In time he recovered somewhat physically but has been left permanently disabled. He is a true martyr for the pro-life movement.
Father, I come to this place as to a new Calvary, I wish to stand here with Mary and those others who stood by the cross of Jesus the day he sacrificed himself for us sinners.
I firmly believe the sorrowful scene before my eyes is nothing less than a reenactment of Jesus' suffering and death, already anticipated in the massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem and repeated in the slaughter of the least of his brethren, the tiny children brought here today to be slain.
Father, I realize I cannot stop the killing of most of these children, any more than Mary could have stopped the slaying of her Child that fatal day. But in faith I unite my heart with hers and humbly adore your divine purpose in allowing such bloodshed.
I offer you the blood of Jesus, and, mingled with it, the blood of these little ones, for their own salvation and for that of their parents, the abortionist, and our whole generation. Remember Jesus' own prayer from the cross with its echo in Mary's heart: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
But perhaps the hour has not come for some of them. Once you told Joseph to take the Child and his mother far from those seeking the Child's life. I offer myself to you, as St. Joseph's helper, ready to do everything I can for my beloved Jesus and Mary in the person of the child and mother you entrust to my care.
Dear Father, accept my prayer in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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