{"id":157,"date":"2006-05-31T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:35:12","slug":"157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/157\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice of the Womb","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/unborn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"341\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FEAST OF THE VISITATION<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While pregnant with Jesus, Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth. Upon Mary&#8217;s greeting, Scripture retells that the child within Elizabeth&#8217;s womb&#8211;John the Baptist&#8211;<em>&#8220;leaped for joy&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>John <em>sensed<\/em> Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>How can we read this passage and fail to recognize the life and presence of a human person within the womb? This day, my heart has been weighed with the sorrow of abortion in North America. And the words, &#8220;You reap what you sow&#8221; have been playing through my mind.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My bible is sitting here open to Isaiah 43. I began turning the pages when I felt that I needed to turn back and read what was there. My eyes fell on this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">I will say to the north: Give them up! and to the south: Hold not back! Bring back my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth: Everyone who is named as mine whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made. (v. 6-7)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Canada (the north) and America (the south) must give up an accounting of the lives we have claimed in our clinics; nothing will be held back. We will reap what we have sown; it is a spiritual law.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, as the weight of this judgment hangs over us like a dark cloud&#8230; I sensed the Lord saying in a remarkable measure of mercy: <em>&#8220;Unless you repent.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How loudly can I shout&#8211;how far will my voice reach when I exclaim, &#8220;It is not too late! Canada repent! America repent!&#8221;?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>The fruit of abortion is nuclear war.<\/strong> <em> \u2014Mother Teresa of Calcutta<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 &nbsp; FEAST OF THE VISITATION &nbsp; While pregnant with Jesus, Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth. Upon Mary&#8217;s greeting, Scripture retells that the child within Elizabeth&#8217;s womb&#8211;John the Baptist&#8211;&#8220;leaped for joy&#8221;. John sensed Jesus. 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