Fr. Pavone's Reflection

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DAY 36 INTENTION
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We are the defenders of true freedom. May our witness
unveil the deception of the "pro-choice" slogan.

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SCRIPTURE
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Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is liberty.

--2 Corinthians 3:17

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REFLECTION by Fr. Frank Pavone
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Norma McCorvey (the former Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade)
used to work at an abortion mill named "A Choice for
Women." She now realizes what a cruel irony that
title was.

She saw first hand, just as pregnancy resource center
counselors see, that women don't get abortions
because of freedom of choice, but rather because they
feel they have no freedom and no choice.

They feel trapped, abandoned, desperate and afraid,
and have been led to believe that abortion is their
only option.

As Frederica Mathewes-Green has written, no woman
wants an abortion like she wants a Porsche or an ice
cream; rather, she wants it like an animal caught in
a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
That doesn't mean that the Spirit allows us to do
whatever we want or to decide for ourselves what's
right and wrong.

Rather, it means that the Spirit gives us the freedom
to do what is right, the power to choose what is
good, when we see it before us and yet feel pulled in
the opposite direction. Liberty means that we no
longer have to feel doomed to do what we know is
wrong.

We are the people of the Spirit of the Lord, and when
we take action on behalf of life, especially by being
present at abortion mills, we are acting on behalf of
true freedom, and imparting to those who are in
bondage the power to do what is right.

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PRAYER
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Come, Holy Spirit. You are the Spirit of freedom, the
source of all that is good, the power to do what is
right. Fill us, and fill those who are in bondage
today, feeling doomed to do what is wrong. Set them
free, and help us to hasten them on the road to
freedom, where your grace overcomes every temptation.
We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.