Motherhood
Interrupted
A Catholic Ministry
For Post Abortion Healing
For Post Abortion Healing
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Hope For You
By Msgr. Edward L. Buelt
Pastor, Our Lady of Loreto Parish, Foxfield, Colorado
An excerpt from the Forward to Motherhood Interrupted...
...I was once talking with a woman who had undergone three
abortions. She and her husband, the father of all three of the
children they had aborted, had been married many years. They
had given birth to other children now raised and on their own.
They weren't particularly religious. They weren't Catholic nor, in
fact, did they adhere to any religious tradition; they held a
humanitarian ethic of secular values. She characterized their
marriage as loving and stable. Yet it never seemed to her to be
open or intimate. Approaching mid-life certain questions kept
perplexing her. Why had they not been able to achieve honest
openness and intimacy in their marriage? Why did it lack
spontaneity and creativity? What prevented them from the deep
happiness they expected and hoped for on their wedding day-that
day they were so young, so in love, so open to one another and so
attuned to the future.
In the natural created order, the womb is a sanctuary, a place
where new life is protected, grows, and is born. Instead into this
very sanctuary of life she invited death. She believed that by
aborting her baby she was terminating her pregnancy; instead she
conceived death itself. After many years, she understands that a
mother's womb will not allow death to conquer life. She aborted
the bodies of her babies but her heart still labored to protect their
lives. For forty years she attempted to avoid the pain of those
three abortions by living according to the dictates of an
inadequate, secular moral code, one she believed justified her
choices. Yet in her heart she was continually in labor; she was and
is their mother...
By Msgr. Edward L. Buelt
Pastor, Our Lady of Loreto Parish, Foxfield, Colorado
An excerpt from the Forward to Motherhood Interrupted...
...I was once talking with a woman who had undergone three
abortions. She and her husband, the father of all three of the
children they had aborted, had been married many years. They
had given birth to other children now raised and on their own.
They weren't particularly religious. They weren't Catholic nor, in
fact, did they adhere to any religious tradition; they held a
humanitarian ethic of secular values. She characterized their
marriage as loving and stable. Yet it never seemed to her to be
open or intimate. Approaching mid-life certain questions kept
perplexing her. Why had they not been able to achieve honest
openness and intimacy in their marriage? Why did it lack
spontaneity and creativity? What prevented them from the deep
happiness they expected and hoped for on their wedding day-that
day they were so young, so in love, so open to one another and so
attuned to the future.
In the natural created order, the womb is a sanctuary, a place
where new life is protected, grows, and is born. Instead into this
very sanctuary of life she invited death. She believed that by
aborting her baby she was terminating her pregnancy; instead she
conceived death itself. After many years, she understands that a
mother's womb will not allow death to conquer life. She aborted
the bodies of her babies but her heart still labored to protect their
lives. For forty years she attempted to avoid the pain of those
three abortions by living according to the dictates of an
inadequate, secular moral code, one she believed justified her
choices. Yet in her heart she was continually in labor; she was and
is their mother...
"As heavy as the weight
of death you bear,
especially the death of
your own unborn baby,
life itself is stronger...As
painful as your abortion
is, forgiveness will bring
you freedom and peace."
of death you bear,
especially the death of
your own unborn baby,
life itself is stronger...As
painful as your abortion
is, forgiveness will bring
you freedom and peace."
Is someone you know
thinking about or
suffering from an
abortion?
Add their name to our
prayer line.
Join our prayer line.
thinking about or
suffering from an
abortion?
Add their name to our
prayer line.
Join our prayer line.
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