Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

by NR Interview April 21, 2017 5:07 PM A Sunday dedicated to beginning again There is mercy after abortion. And a woman who had an abortion in her youth extends a hand of hope in her new book, A Journey to Healing Through Divine Mercy, written for Catholic publisher Marian Press by Teresa Bonapartis. This mercy is particularly relevant this Sunday, one week after Easter, as it marks Divine Mercy Sunday, a day designated by Pope John Paul II in 2000 under the inspiration of a Polish nun, Saint Faustina Kowalska. Bonapartis works in post-abortion-healing ministry – she developed Entering Canaan with the Sisters of Life and directs Lumina for Good Counsel Homes in New York. She talks about abortion and the mercy of God, as well as how healing happens and why it’s so necessary. Kathryn Jean Lopez: You begin the book with a quote from Pope Francis: “Now is the time for mercy.” Isn’t it always? Why do he and others — including you, in this book — talk so much about mercy? Theresa Bonopartis: Yes, to me “now” means right now, in this moment, which then transfers to every moment. His mercy is always there for us, moment to moment. Right now. He is waiting for us with His Mercy. Mercy is the attribute that heals, forgives, restores, and converts. To be loved and accepted no matter what our sin . . . it is the realization of what He has done for us in dying on the cross and resurrecting. Lopez: What about truth and justice and conversion? Bonopartis: Justice is there, but it belongs to Him to decide culpability. As you know, many women are coerced into abortion . . . that does not make it alright — abortion is always wrong and terrible — but it does alter the degree of responsibility. It’s that mercy that brings you to be able to look at the truth and experience conversion.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446965/divine-mercy-sunday-and-healing-abortion