Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

OK…I am humbled!
For those of you who may have received it, Lumina's winter newsletter just went out with its' theme of "humility".

In spite of the fact that it was edited by two people as well as myself, I just saw, AFTER THE MAILING, that part of the witness is double printed on the inside back page!

Of course, I was mortified to see it, and then I remembered the newsletters theme and could not help but laugh. God surely has a sense of humor! I am humbled and apologize.

For those who would like to read this most moving witness(so sorry Lucy!) without thinking you are going crazy because of the repeats, here it is….

http://postabortionhelp.org/Newsletter/newsletter2.html

and in light of the error I thought this would be appropriate!

Litany of Humility
Written by Cardinal Merry del Val. He was
accustomed to recite this prayer daily after the
celebration of Holy Mass.

From the desire of being esteemed,
From the desire of being loved,
From the desire of being extolled,
From the desire of being honored,
From the desire of being praised,
From the desire of being preferred to others,

From the desire of being consulted,
From the desire of being approved,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being humiliated,
From the fear of being despised,
From the fear of suffering rebukes,
From the fear of being calumniated,
From the fear of being forgotten,
From the fear of being ridiculed,
From the fear of being wronged,
From the fear of being suspected,
Deliver me, Jesus.

That others may be loved more than I,
That others may be esteemed more than I,
That in the opinion of the world, others may
increase, and I may decrease,
That others may be chosen and I set aside,
That others may be praised and I unnoticed,
That others may be preferred to me in
everything,
That others may become holier than I, provided
that I become as holy as I should,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. Amen.

Just
as an afterthought to the witness…while Lucy certainly experienced
misguided compassion in the person of the priest she saw, there are
countless wonderful priests we know and work with in the church and we grieve the fact that she did not have the experience of one of them