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Protectress Of The Unborn

Protectress of the Unborn
Our Lady of Guadalupe versus the Culture of Death

“The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground” (Gen 4:10).

                                                                                                                                                            

Human life is and has always been at the center of the     great struggle between good and evil, between light and darkness. The struggle between     the “culture of life” and the “culture of death”.

Only Satan can delight in the death of the living: for     death came into the world as a result of the devil’s envy (cf. Wis 2:24).     He who is “a murderer from the beginning”, is also “a liar     and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44). By deceiving man he leads him to     projects of sin and death, even in many ocassions making them appear as     goals and fruits of life.

Since the beginning of human history one of the many     devil’s deceptions has been the instigation of ritual killings of men,     women and children in human sacrifices offered to different pagan ‘gods’     and ‘godesses’ (devils). Being the ones of innocent children the most     deplorable of all.

We read in the Book of Leviticus how the Lord tells Moses     about the serious crime of offering children to be immolated to Molech,     referring to the Canaanite custom of sacrificing children to the god     Molech. The little victims were first slain and then cremated. (Leviticus 20,1-5     and 18,21).

                   

Aztec       priest killing a victim immoled to a devil-god. Aztec Codex illustration.

In the Americas, five centuries ago, cruel human     sacrificing rituals were performed on a scale never approached, even     remotely, by another peoples. Never before or after in human history a more     open, long running, ritualized and institutionalized public showcase of the     Culture of Death has been manifested.

No one will ever know how many were killed this way.     Estimates start from 20,000 to 50,000 a year in several sources. Recently,     Woodrow Borah, possibly the leading authority on the demography of Mexico     at the time of the conquest, has revised the estimated number of persons     sacrificed in central Mexico in the fifteenth century to 250,000 per year.

                   

Many methods were used. The victims had their hearts cut     out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced to death,     stoned, crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from the tops of temples.

Perhaps the most popular of the public rituals was taking     the victims to the tops of the Aztec pyramids where they were laid on top     of a flat stone. There, the priests cut open thir chests and their hearts     were ripped out. The bodies were then thrown down the steps of the pyramid.

After the bodies tumbled down the stairs, the priests removed     the limbs, cooked and ate them. Specially hands and thighs were considered     the best delicacies. The heads were placed in skull racks for public     exhibition.

The two chief gods of the Aztec pantheon to which most of     the sacrifices were made were Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca. Their     priests painted their bodies black; their never-cut hair was all caked and     matted with dried blood. They filed their teeth to sharp points.

                   

The climax of these ritual killings came in 1487 for the     dedication of the new and richly decorated with serpents temple of     Huitzilopochtli, in Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), when in a single     ceremony that lasted four days and four nights, with the constant beating     of giant drums made of snakeskin, the Aztec ruler and demon worshiper     Tlacaellel presided the sacrifice of more than 80,000 men.

Children were said to be frequent victims, in part     because they were considered pure and unspoiled.

In 2002, Mexican government archaeologist Juan Alberto     Roman Berrelleza announced the results of forensic testing on the bones of     42 children, mostly boys around age 6, sacrificed at Mexico City’s Templo     Mayor, the Aztec’s main religious site, during a drought. All shared one     feature: serious cavities, abscesses or bone infections painful enough to     make them cry. “It was considered a good omen if they cried a lot at     the time of sacrifice,” which was probably done by slitting their throats,     Roman Berrelleza said.

The early Mexican historian Ixtlilxochitl estimated that     one out of every five children in Mexico were sacrificed.

Our Lady of     Guadalupe, Coatlaxopeuh, crushed this serpent in 1531.

Today we too find ourselves in the midst of an even more     enormous and dramatic conflict between good and evil, death and life, the     “culture of death” and the “culture of life”.

                   

John Paul II stated at Denver, on the occasion of the     Eighth World Youth Day, “with time the threats against life have not     grown weaker. They are taking on vast proportions. They are not only     threats coming from the outside, from the forces of nature or the ‘Cains     who kill the Abels’; no, they are scientifically and systematically     programmed threats. The twentieth century will have been an era of massive     attacks on life, an endless series of wars and a continual taking of     innocent human life. False prophets and false teachers have had the     greatest success”.

In our days millions of unborn children are killed every     year around the globe, in procedures that in some places are not only legal     but also officially supported and financed. In many cases the procedures     follow the same rules as the sacrifices to the ancient god Molech: the     slain and then cremation of the little children.

Just in the United States of America, right next to the     land where Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared, more than a million children are     killed every year. 32 million abortions were executed in the country just     during the first 20 years after abortion was legalized in 1973.

These killings, which dwarf the numbers of the sacrifices     of the Aztecs, are not longer executed under the sun in open air, on the     top of a pyramid for all the people in town to see and hear, but hidden     from anybody except the few personnel of the abortion providers, in     facilities that can be found in many cases in shopping centers.

Like during the Aztec times, a variety of methods are     used to kill. Like by vacuum aspirations or MVA; dilation and suctions     curettage or D&C; saline amniocentesis, or salt poisoning abortions;     D&E; “brain suction” or “D&X” methods, etc.

                   

By the D&E method, a pliers-like instrument is used     because the baby’s bones are calcified, as is the skull. The practicionist     inserts the instrument up into the uterus, seizes a leg or other part of     the baby’s body, and, with a twisting motion tears it from the body and     takes it out of the uterus. This is repeated until all body parts are     removed. The spine must be snapped, and the skull crushed to remove them.     The nurse’s job is to reassemble the body parts, to be sure that all are     removed.

In the “D&X” method, used during the 2nd or     3rd trimester of pregnancy, the baby’s legs are located and grasped with     forceps.

                   

Then the legs are pulled and the     baby is delivered up to the head. With the head still intact in the vagina     (the head at this stage is too large to pass through the cervix), the     practitioner then inserts blunt surgical scissors into the base of the     fetal skull and spreads the tips apart. A suction catheter is then inserted     into the skull and the brain is sucked out. The skull collapses until the     baby’s head can pass through the cervix.

The little bodies of the victims are then thrown in     dumpsters, incinerated, or sent to be used for research which, under the     pretext of scientific or medical progress, in fact reduces human life to     the level of simple “biological material” to be freely disposed     of.

May the Woman     clothed with the sun, in the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protectress of     the Unborn, with her message of Love and Compassion crush the serpent     again.

 

              A Prayer for Abortion Victims

Prayer for all victims of     abortion. May those involved in abortions be reconciled to God and may the     innocent dead be saved.

Holy     Mother of God and of the Church, our Lady of Guadalupe, you were chosen by     the Father for the Son through the Holy Spirit.

You are the Woman clothed with     the sun who labors to give birth to Christ while Satan, the Red Dragon,     waits to voraciously devour your child.

So too did Herod seek to destroy     your Son, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and massacred many innocent     children in the process.
So today does abortion killing many innocent unborn children and exploiting     many mothers in its attack upon human life and upon the Church, the Body of     Christ.

Mother of the Innocents, we     praise God in you for His gifts to you of your Immaculate Conception, your     freedom from actual sin; your fullness of grace, your Motherhood of God and     the Church, your Perpetual Virginity and your Assumption in body and soul     into heaven.

O Help of Christians, we beg you     to protect all mothers of the unborn and the children within their wombs.     We plead with you for your help to end the holocaust of abortion. Melt     hearts so that life may be revered!

Holy Mother, we pray to your     Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all mothers and all unborn children that     they may have life here on earth and by the most Precious Blood shed by     your Son that they may have eternal life with Him in heaven. We also pray     to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all abortionists and all     abortion supporters that they may be converted and accept your Son, Jesus     Christ, as their Lord and Savior. Defend all of your children in the battle     against Satan and all of the evil spirits in this present darkness.

We desire that the innocent unborn     children who die without Baptism should be baptized and saved. We ask that     you obtain this grace for them and repentance, reconciliation and pardon     from God for their parents and their killers.

Let there be revealed, once more,     in the history of the world the infinite power of merciful love. May it put     an end to evil. May it transform consciences. May your Sorrowful and     Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope. May Christ the King     reign over us, our families, cities, states, nations and the whole of     humanity.

O clement, O loving, O sweet     Virgin Mary, hear our pleas and accept this cry from our hearts!

Our Lady of Guadalupe,     Protectress of the Unborn, Pray for us!

 

                            Pray a Rosary for the     end of abortions.
                  Post a     petition to Our Lady of Guadalupe for the end of abortions.

 

Prayer of John Paul II for Life

O Mary,
bright dawn of the new world,
Mother of the living,
to you do we entrust the cause of life:
Look down, O Mother,
upon the vast numbers
of babies to be born,
of the poor whose lives are made difficult,
of men and women
who are victims of brutal violence,
of the elderly and the sick killed
by indifference or out of misguided mercy.
Grant that all who believe in your Son
may proclaim the Gospel of life
with honesty and love
to the people of our time.
Obtain for them the grace
to accept that Gospel
as a gift ever new,
the joy of celebrating it with gratitude
throughout their lives
and the courage to bear witness to it
resolutely, in order to build,
together with all people of good will,
the civilization of truth and love,
to the praise and glory of God,
the Creator and lover of life.

Pope John Paul II
Encyclical Letter “
The Gospel of Life
Given in Rome, on       March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, in the year       1995.

 

 

Prayer to St.       Michael Archangel

Saint Michael the Archangel,
Defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the devil;
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
And do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
By the power of God, thrust into hell
Satan and all evil spirits
who wander through the world
for the ruin of souls.

Amen.

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