Suffer the little children: Divine grace in every heartbeat

Jun 26, 2022 by

by Harry Blanchard, TCW:

AS Roe vs. Wade is overturned in America, returning the decision on whether to allow abortion to the individual States, it seems appropriate to mention that as I write (Saturday June 24) it is the Feast of Our Lord’s Sacred Heart. It is on this day that a little hope has returned to the world.

It reminds us that God is active and that the sufferings, even of the most fragile, do not go unregarded, unmourned or unredeemed. In Jesus’s words: ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not; for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.’ (Matthew 19:14)

Jesus sees in each child His own creation, knit together in the womb with nothing but the Love He shares with the Father and the Holy Ghost, and He holds each one in His heart, no matter how tiny.

Let us remember the tenderness with which Our Lady, Mary, the Mother of God visited the pregnant St Elizabeth to share the angel-borne news of Jesus’s Immaculate Conception. St John the Baptist (whose Feast Day was on Friday), though yet in his mother’s womb, rejoiced at the coming of the Incarnate Son of God, the Saviour of all mankind:

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