Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out in the field." When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" The Lord then said: "What have you done! Listen: Your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil! Therefore you shall be banned from the soil that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand." (Gen. 4:8-11; New American Bible, St. Joseph Edition).
If Abel's blood has cried to God from the ground, just imagine what God hears when the blood of the millions of innocents cry out from the ground: it must be deafening, absolutely deafening.
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right on. Great post from a great mind!
Well, if you hadn't urged me from our chat up earlier . . . and 'tis really the Holy Spirit after all. Grace has been given and since I was asked to share . . . *wink* I did. Bless you, my friend.
Wow. How true. I can't even imagine how it must wound Him to hear those cries. How it must just utterly wound Him....
Indeed their blood cries out!! Perhaps in the face of the enormous threat facing the unborn now, we will all feel called to prayer and action on behalf of the unborn. I would like to see the March for Life break all records for attendance this year. I've never been but I'm considering it this year. Would love to meet some e-friends there.
I think I may just be in D.C. for the March this year. It is usually wet and cold that time of year, but you know what? I'll just offer that up, too. Let me know if you are going to be there.
It is possible that I'll be going with a group of kids. It would be fun to meet some of you there, but if you haven't been, you need to realize the possibility of meeting someone there is huge! There are thousands and lots of buses. One place that some of us could meet if we really all went would be if you were going ot the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It is HUGE and it is CROWDED, but if we were going, we could all say we could try to meet downstairs in the big bookstore by the Bibles or something..at such and such a time.
Am I silly or what? Stranger things have happened! :)
PS What happens is that there is this huge Mass the night before the actual Walk for Life at the Shrine and it is absolutely amazing and completely full...people sitting on the floors and kids camping in sleeping bags all over the place
downstairs.
Silly me...I mean the possibility is huge that one might NOT meet because it is so crowded..I worded that wrong in my last post...sorry. Still, if its the Lord's Will...it could be...right Rosemary? I met your son in a crowd..only this one will be much much larger.
Suzanne, right, we would have to plan it. Have a specific place and time... maybe exchange cell phone numbers. I would love it.
Well, if we do go, and we can all pray about that, that would be so nice. That is the only place that I could think of where it might work, but I'll tell you, it is so so crowded. I was amazed! The gift store was approachable, at least. I spent some time in there and could move around. There was not a seat to be had in the area where you eat. Every table was full and people waiting all around to get a table to sit at. It was pretty loud too because so many people talking! You had to literally walk OVER people upstairs in the church! It was like World Youth Day inside a building! I think that is how it would best be to describe to give ya'll an idea!
JOT or Rosemary...have you ever been to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception? It is huge and it is beautiful!
Rosemary and Suz - I live about forty minutes north of the Shrine and have been there a gazillion times. It's my other home on earth. I saw pictures at the Shrine of last years "full house" as you describe it, Suz. Amazing. My dad (not yet converted, but going through RCIA - he became Catholic last Easter, praise God) loved this place and told my sister to see it when she and her daughter came this summer . . . she thought it was beautiful, too. It's breath-takingly holy.
Just down the road is the JP2 center and in the other direction is the Franciscan Monastery - another place worth seeing!!
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