Exhaling

The sky is the only omnipresence we all accept. So look up!

Rachel still weeps

Filed under: poetry — kathryntherese at 10:54 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Holy Innocents, Innocentes pro Christo.

Primitiae Deo, et Agno,

not fruits of the harvest, but

            fruits of the season’s hope and promise -

First fruits sacrificed on the altars of

            the grief-hot hearts of new motherhood, abrupted.

The raging madness of the selfward

still rages on, sees a threat that is no threat,

still sees others as obstacles or objects only,

still spawns erratic fear and blinding obsession,

still boils in the veins, blinding to truth,

still sacrifices the pure, the innocent,

in the self-turned hearts of new motherhood, aborted.

2 Comments »

484

Comment by JustMe

January 22, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

Good poem, horrendous facts. The aborting of an innocent human being is quite baffling indeed, unless and until one factors in a harsh truth: satan really does have some power over us via our self-ish weaknesses.

Religion is never a matter of just wanting God; it’s always a humble acknowledgment that we need God.

The death of any man, willed and brought about by man, is a loss that counts ominously much in what is truly a spiritual battle. Never do we see that battle more clearly than in seeing that we have come to ennoble the non-being of our own flesh and blood.

This is where our alleged leaders, about whom we are quoted Scripture whenever we see clearly and denounce them, fail us most– they do not merit our rendering to them anything at all. They cannot only nod their heads at how awful is the diabolical lack of respect for life and leave it to the courts. They must actually be first to stop frying people (first by State chair, later by Federal incendiary).

I don’t know how valid it is, but because abortion is indeed a warring upon Christ, I’ve heard that Rome is considering the slain pre-born being officially deemed martyrs –as part of the Holy Innocents.

And we–? What can we do? Because, indeed, every law (re!)enacted to protect life in this alleged democracy seems shot down by Lucifer’s Lawyer! We appear to be losing the battle on many fronts, but most glaringly losing it by nearly 50,000,000, just in this country alone. But we must never lose sight of the fact that, initially, only a handful of imperfect men, Appointed in/with/through/by and for Love Himself, made up an entire church–and changed the world. We must never lose sight of the fact that one little nun did nearly all the very same!

485

Comment by Carol

January 23, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

Ha, will I ever put away the preachy me?? (Yes. Soon.)

Let me add it late: Least of all am I like any of the holy do-ers. But the fact, by God’s grace — and I thank Him for it — is that when we take in someone in any way at all, when we in some way give/lend them life that another has denied them, we are truly acting in a pro-life way, for we are fighting the same demon who would so gladly destroy all human life as well as all human love.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

 
Powered by Get your free Catholic Blog at tBlogs Catholic Blogs