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The Lord’s descent into the underworld
At Matins/the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday the Church gives us this 'ancient homily', I find it incredibly moving, it is abou...
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A French newspaper has reported Pope Francis, once Benedict dies, will abrogate Summorum Pontificum and handover Old Rite's celebrat... -
I was at the Verona Opera Festival when Summorum Pontificum was published but it wasn't until All Souls Day that I first attempted to s... -
In a conversation with our bishop recently, I thought he said that some parishes in the diocese were already using the new ICEL translations...
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Oh how tough that must be for the girl..i pray she gets all the support she needs to keep the baby...
Wildo
Will pray. The devil loves isolation. This girl must not be isolated.
Without telling any details, I can say that I did know a woman who told me that when she was a young married woman, her husband, an atheist, "wasn't ready to be a dad." She herself was not much of a practitioner of her faith at the time, and consented to an abortion to please her husband. She told me she regretted it ever after - and that not a day went by when she did not think of that child.
Young girls getting pregnant out of wedlock has been going on since time began. But the biggest lie of all to the over-sexualised youth (at frighteningly young ages) is that there are no consequences to sex.
I will pray for this girl and all like her. I suppose I should pray for the father too - he may well be a young, frightened teen. If an older man, I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Unless I'm wrong AFAIK 16 is the minimum age of consent in England and Wales. I don't know if there are slightly different laws applicable if both parties are close in age and under a certain age.
In my abbey we have devotions today to St. Siardus, a Premonstratensian abbot from the 12th century (?). He is invoked as a patron for young mothers. I will pray for the mother and for the life of her child.
Rosary on the way.
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