In Cyba, an Abundance of Love but Lack of Babies

By Kevin Burke, LSW

October 13th is the very special 100 year anniversary of 1 of the greatest public miracles since the resurrection of Jesus.  The spectacular and frightening Miracle of the Dominicus was witnessed in Fatima Portugal by 70,000 people, including many skeptics and atheists equally well as devout believers.

At the same time every bit the miracle of the sun, visionary Lucia saw a vision of the Holy Family – Mary with Joseph and the child Jesus who each raised their hands in approval over the globe.

The miracle of the sun powerfully echoed the telephone call of the Affections of Fatima to the Shepherd children at the onset of the apparitions to believe, adore, and love God with all our listen, eye and soul.  The Angel'southward warning must be understood in the historical context where  the human family was increasingly rejecting the Providence of God and was in serious mortal spiritual and concrete danger.

At the same fourth dimension Mary was appearing to the children, revolutionaries were planning the overthrow of the Russian monarchy to found a movement that would institutionalize blasphemy against God.

In July 1917 the blessed Mother warned Fatima visionary Lucia, and the entire world, of this gathering darkness:

"Russia will spread her errors throughout the earth, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated."

The Bolsheviks violently seized power in Russia in November 1917 one month after the last bogeyman at Fatima. The communists launched a massive persecution of the Church building in their zeal to wipe out conventionalities in God and the practice of religion in the Soviet Union and later in Eastern Europe and China.

What is perhaps lesser known, is the role of the Soviet Spousal relationship in the spread of abortion.

Pioneers of Decease

Geoffrey Strickland, J.D., J.C.L., who serves every bit the Rome Part Managing director for Priests for Life, shares nigh the roots of abortion in the former Soviet Union:

"…history attests to the fact that Russia spread her errors throughout the earth… through the unmarried greatest error of our time: ballgame.

Russia was the first state e'er to legalize abortion up to nascency without restriction and also developed and promulgated applied science to this stop.[i] Russia and areas formerly controlled past the Soviet Wedlock have the highest ballgame charge per unit in the globe.[2] Further, those countries sharing in the political and ideological legacy of Russia at that time such equally People's republic of china, Cuba and others continue to carry on this violent imperative.[three]"

The errors of Russia would afterward spread to the United States with the legalization of ballgame in 1973.

Geoffrey writes:

"Thus "diverse nations" – the innumerable children of every race, creed and culture – have indeed been "annihilated" through the central fault of abortion and the faulty logic behind it, namely that a homo child is not a human beingness."

Over 1 billion unborn girls and boys have been aborted around the world in the last 100 years.

The Female parent/Kid Connexion Runs Deep

Pro Abortion propaganda likes to spin the ballgame event as "a woman'south right to control her private and personal reproductive wellness care decisions."

The truth is, ballgame disrupts a very intimate relationship that exists on an emotional as well as on a cellular level– a human relationship that continues well subsequently the kid's death.

In Science News we acquire that a mother carries the cells of her unborn children inside her body:

"…biologically speaking, mothers and their children are connected in a way that may surprise y'all… When the eye is injured, fetal cells seem to flock to the site of injury and turn into several unlike types of specialized center cells. Some of these cells may even offset beating, a mouse study found.

So technically…A mother really does hold her children in her heart."

Behold Your Mother

Consider that Mary may still concur the fetal cells of her Divine Son within her assumed body. Mary and her Son shared both a concrete, but also a spiritual communion as the great paschal mystery unfolded in the last days in the life of Jesus.

As Jesus suffered horrific torture on the cross, he looked down tenderly at his female parent, entrusting her to the Apostle John.   However in this action, Jesus was also proclaiming the ongoing mission of Mary as the mother of all Christians, and of the unabridged human family.

In this spiritual motherhood, Mary experiences an intimate and passionate love for each of her children.

Our Lady of Fatima shared with Lucia:

My daughter, look at My Heart surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Y'all, at least, endeavor to panel me.

The metaphor of sensitive heart tissue penetrated by thorns reveals how closely Mary is attached to us, and how our sinful deportment wound her at the deepest level of her being.

Mary's heart was filled with anguish as she appeared to the Shepherd children of Fatima. She warned of the unfolding short and long-term consequences of the spread of atheistic communism and subsequently the rise of the Nazi political party in Deutschland.  Our Blessed Mother saw the diabolical power of those subversive ideologies and the political and cultural revolutions that have rocked the world over the last 100 years.

Our Lady of Fatima surely understood how the attacks upon the Providential Fatherhood of God would pb to violence against the unborn kid, the abuse of human sexuality, and other developments that continue to wreak havoc on matrimony and family life.

Consolation every bit Mercy

Similar the visionaries of Fatima, we are too called to panel the heart of Mary. But this consolation is really a loving and merciful souvenir from Mary and Jesus.

I accept worked for over 20 years every bit a counselor with women and men who take participated in the death of their unborn children. Their testimonies  reveal the spiritual and emotional suffering unleashed in their lives later on the procedure, often leading to failed relationships, addictions, and multiple ballgame procedures.

The symptoms of complicated grief after abortion are oftentimes manifest in an intimate and subversive way in the corruption of the relationships between men and women that tin have a detrimental effect on marriage and family life.

Nosotros console our Blessed Mother by turning away from pride, by ceasing to justify and rationalize sinful actions, especially those that viciously attack the dignity of the human being person, such as pornography and abortion. Mary calls u.s. to repent of those sins of selfishness; idolatry manifested in the lust for money and ability; and the scourge of prejudice, violence and hatred.

Mary pleads with her children that this life is very short – she implores u.s. to pass up all that dissever u.s. from God and threatens our eternal conservancy.

It is also a great consolation to Mary and Jesus when we humbly open our darkest and shameful wounds like abortion, to the healing lite of truth.

Rachel's Vineyard and other abortion recovery programs facilitate an intimate emotional and spiritual come across with Christ in a procedure that features exercises rooted in the Word of God, and the grace of the sacraments of reconciliation and Eucharist that are office of the weekend experience.

As parents honor and embrace their children with dearest, and grieve this loss in a healthy way, they can entrust their child to the Lord's merciful care. While there is hurting, at that place is likewise the alleviation and peace of the Holy Spirit and the existent hope of a spiritual relationship with their child in this life, and God willing, a Heavenly reunion in the next.

"My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph"

Mary reassured us that even with the massive expiry and destruction of the concluding 100 years, in the end, her Immaculate Heart volition triumph. Perhaps we are witnessing an anticipation of that last victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the reconciliation and healing of women and men after abortion.

Let us pray together for a special outpouring of grace and mercy as we celebrate the 100 twelvemonth anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima.   May this celebration facilitate a wider awakening to the fervent phone call of a loving mother to her millions of children that accept yet to reconcile their nigh shameful and grievous sins, and find the healing and peace that simply her son Jesus tin provide.

[ane] See for example http://www.liveaction.org/news/the-ballgame-ripple-effect-russias-tragic-abortion-tale/; http://time.com/3679288/iceland-ballgame/.

[2] Come across for case, http://world wide web.cbsnews.com/pictures/abortion-effectually-the-world-where-are-rates-highest/19/; http://www.liveaction.org/news/the-abortion-ripple-effect-russias-tragic-abortion-tale/.

[iii] See, for example, https://world wide web.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/earth/americas/in-cuba-an-affluence-of-love-but-a-lack-of-babies.html and https://world wide web.lifesitenews.com/news/china-commits-staggering-23-million-abortions-per-year-according-to-us-stat.

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