Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

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“The world itself now bears witness to its approaching end by its
fading powers. […] The peasant is failing and disappearing from the
fields, the sailor at sea, the soldier in the camp, uprightness in the
forum, justice in the court, concord in friendships, skill in the arts,
discipline in morals.”

Someone might think these words were written today in response to a
decline in American society witnessed by the attempt to so centralize
the government that the freedom of the Church is threatened. Yet these
words were written by St. Cyprian, an early Church Father, around the
year 250.

At the time, the Christians thought that the world was coming to an end
as they knew it. Yet St. Cyprian, as all good Christians, was not moved
to despair. This is because Christians realize that history in a sense
has already come to an end. When Christ rose from the dead and ascended
into heaven, the whole purpose for the world was realized: God was
finally glorified in Jesus Christ.

The only thing left is to fill up the perfect number of those whom God
has chosen to see him in the face through the action of Christ.

Once we realize that the final realization of the world cannot occur on
this earth, then — though one must be involved in what happens here, as
this is our pilgrim road to heaven — looking at time from eternity is
the only thing that makes sense.