Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Taking off from the thought from a previous post about being blind to our own sins, I am going to post some that can hold us back from the humility  needed for true healing from abortion.

I am going to begin with vanity.

"vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others"

“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.” Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

As post abortive people we often get immersed in vanity. This does not mean that we need to tell the world we had an abortion, but we do need to be careful not to be so caught up in what others think that we do not do what is necessary for us to heal. What appears to us as shyness or nervousness in our reluctance to do things, (maybe go to confession, seek help in counseling, a ministry etc, or speak in front of others etc,) can in truth, be vanity. We do not want to do these things because we fear how we will look in the eyes of someone else instead of trusting in God His mercy and His grace for us.

We instead choose to stay in our sin so that no one will know we have had an abortion.

Is vanity keeping you from the mercy of God. Are you living in the fear and bondage of what others would think of you if they knew?

Pray to be freed of vanity so that you can reach out for the help you need in order to heal and come to know Gods great love and mercy for you!

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

O Jesus meek and humble of heart, Hear me.

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.