Smite

When I returned to my hometown from being 40DFL Vigil Coordinator in another city only to learn that Planned Parenthood was trying to build a new facility in my hometown, I felt like Frodo returning from Mordor to find that Saruman had overtaken the Shire. 

Here, someone else finds solace in the words of Frodo as we contemplate the codification of abortion into federal law by the Biden administration:

An exchange between Frodo and Gandalf is helpful for this consideration. The poor hobbit has just learned that the evil Sauron was rising again and menacing Middle Earth. He says, “I wish it need not have happened in my time.” Again, one sympathizes. But Gandalf responds, “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2021/01/24/a-different-inauguration/

So, we will continue to pray and fast for an end to abortion, knowing that Mordor will not triumph. Let us pray for the virtue of Hope as we inaugurate the most pro-abortion government, outside of China:

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”