Our work for the unborn goes on every day of the year. But let us pause from our usual coverage of directly pro-life issues, and reflect for a moment today on the far bigger question - of Life eternal.
Let us acknowledge that we are not worthy to speak to God, and yet, let us have an unshaken confidence in the power and goodness of Him, who only commands us to pray that he may pour out his mercies upon us. The season we are now in is one of prayer; the Church redoubles her supplications; it is for us that she makes them; we must take our share in them.
Let us, during this season of grace, cast off that languor which fastens on the soul at other times; let us remember that it is prayer which repairs the faults we have already committed, and preserves us from sin for the future.
Bow down your heads to God.
Spare, o Lord, spare thy people: that having been justly chastised, they may find comfort in thy mercy. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.