The Rachel Rosary, by Rev. Larry Kupferman, is beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s an intercessory prayer for victims of post-abortion syndrome, and in this, the month of the Rosary and respect life month, seems to be the time to share it with you and invite you to pray with me for an end to abortion and healing for those who have been involved in abortions.

The Third Sorrowful Mystery: Crowning with Thorns
The soldiers led him away inside the palace, that is, the praetorium and assembled the whole cohort. They clothed him in purple and weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him. They began to salute him with, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and kept striking his head with a reed and spitting upon him. They knelt before him in homage. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him out to crucify him. (Mark 15:16-20)

We pray this decade, keeping in mind the humiliation that a person who has an abortion must endure, if not initially, then inevitably

Our Father…

Ten Hail Marys
1. For the fourteen-year-old girl who cannot face her own mother. Hail Mary…
2. For the woman who cannot read articles related to abortion without feeling great humiliation. Hail Mary…
3. For the teenage girl who stays active in her youth group at church, fearfully hiding the truth during their devotions and discussions. Hail Mary…
4. For the teenager who becomes pregnant after boasting about how “careful” she and her boyfriend are. Hail Mary…
5. For the man or woman who is a parish minister and who cries inside when the issue of abortion is raised. Hail Mary…
6. For the woman who has had to see her daughter become a woman but does not feel equipped to speak about sex. Hail Mary…
7. For the woman whose humiliation at being pregnant forces her to act against her values. Hail Mary…
8. For the man who knows the humiliation of having decided to end the life of his own first-born son or daughter. Hail Mary…
9. For the physician who teaches interns to deliver babies while he himself is killing them. Hail Mary…
10. For the counselor who allows the pressure of “political correctness” to influence her counsel. Hail Mary…

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, it is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

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