This video Matt shared today shows a funeral service for the aborted babies whose remains were discovered in jars during the raid of an illegal abortion clinic earlier this year. You can read that grisly story at Life News.
In a similar story, we learned earlier this week that Reverend Earl Boyea, Bishop of Lansing, Michigan, plans to provide a proper burial for 17 babies whose bodies were found in a dumpster outside an abortion clinic in Eaton County.
As sad and disturbing as these stories are, I am glad to see them getting news coverage, and I wish they would get still more attention in the press.
Many of us Catholics are accustomed to hearing these kinds of stories. As I read the details of these two cases, though, I can’t help but think about how they must look to people on the outside.
Who comes across as the most caring, compassionate, respectful, and reasonable group? Those who salvage the remains of human babies and attempt to give them a dignified burial? Or those who demand the “right” to destroy these recognizably human beings, preserve their body parts in jars, or toss them—like medical waste, only not quite so dignified as that—into dumpsters on the street?
What’s the humane thing to do? What’s the human thing to do? Which side are you on?
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Dear NCR,
I am the Father of three children and four step-children, an Army Vet, and retired teacher/counselor.Each day that I wake up, I still can’t believe that our nation has descended into the “Pit of Abortion” - to me the most cowardly thing a person can do is to kill a child. But the thing that troubles me the most is that most Americans don’t even care about it, and do nothing about it!! That’s even more cowardly. May God have mercy on this Land!!! Your Newspaper is one of the last brave voices in the USA that speaks the truth. Thanks to the Lord for all the illegal immigrants - at least they believe in having children. Bless them all!!
William A. Kysela, M.S.
El Paso, Tx. 79907
Joy: I have friends who have had funerals and burials for babies that suffered miscarriages.
To Joy: my daughter miscarried three babies, including her only daughter. She had a Mass of the Angels said for them, and their blessing candles are kept on display with the baptisimal candles of their three living brothers.
I was honored to be a part of a similar burial in the late 1980s when Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida had a memorial service and then burial for two coffins containing the jarred remains of aborted babies from a clinic in New England somewhere, I believe. The *Tallahassee Democrat,* usually hostile to any pro-life efforts, published a story about the burial and ceremony and had one amazing photo from inside the grave, as one of the coffins was handed down into it.
To Joy: We offer such a Masss whenever we are asked. Please make the request to your Pastor. [for yourself or encourage others to do so]
The state has arrogated to itself power over life and death, and has taken man’s soul from him and replaced it with a tax. Self-evident are the truths that make men free, having been created by nature and nature’s God, and endowed by certain unalienable rights and among these rights are LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
Therapeutic abortion intends to save the life of the mother AND THE CHILD. Cruel abortion on demand intends the death of the life inside the womb, fetal homicide. Justice is predicated on intent. Roe v. Wade is a miscarriage of Justice and intended homicide, economic cleansing, EVIL.
Mary De Voe
I think for babies, baptised or not, it is a Mass of the Angels rather than a Requiem Mass, because of their innocent state.
Babies without baptism are entrusted to the infinite Mercy of God, who I am sure sees to their salvation in a way we do not yet understand. Miscarried babies also can have baptism of desire, if they would have been baptised if they had lived a little longer.
Most priests will say a Mass of the Angels if asked. I have been to some for late miscarried babies.
Hope this helps.
Why doesn’t the Church provide funeral services for spontaneously aborted (miscarried) babies?
How did these aborted babies get baptized? Or is that just the prayer used? One of the agony a post abortive mother experiences is wondering where their child is because that aren’tbaptized. Can somebody please explain this. thanks
I am from Immaculate Conception Parish in Elkton, MD.
Thank you for the beautiful tape of the burial of the unborn babies. Eleven of them were completly formed 9 month babies. It made the front page of the Cecil Whig. The week before Fr. Joe Piercowski, my pastor, shown in the video, had a 7pm Funeral Mass for the babies, with flowers and 33 candles lit. Each baby was given its own name by those present at Mass. Beautiful. Thank you, Father Joe, for having the babies returned from Baltimore to us so that we could bury them in our cemetery.
A similar story comes out of Vietnam, where a man has buried 9,000 babies killed by abortion over a number of years and has adopted over 50 to save them from that fate. Amazing video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkxtkmXmvU
My family was humbled and privileged to be present at this very poignant event. God seemed to join us in our tears as a gentle rain fell throughout the service. The tragedy has proven one point very clearly - those who commit abortions/murder do not have any regard for life including that of the mother despite what PP would want you to think. Our small town knew nothing of the existence of the business and now is trying to see what can be done to prevent it from happening again (despite the very lenient MD laws). The lesson for all? What is happening in your town?
This is one of those things you didn’t know needed to be said. I feel that a funeral creates a sense of closure and peace for the family.
How many times have we stood around in the backyard, having a funeral for various deceased pets, from insects to the four-legged variety? We can dignify a dog or cat’s passing, but not that of a child? Many of those times, a child asks for this funeral, which I believe is very telling as children seem to often intuit the appropriateness more than adults.
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