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Termination of my pregnancy was offered to me so many times I lost count. My unborn child had a 98% chance for Down Syndrome.
The specialists listed her markers clinically; thick neck, short limbs and heart complications. Constant reminders that these pregnancies terminate themselves often and without warning.
Not once did they connect me with families raising children with Down syndrome. Not once did they mention joy.
Three years later I’m still stunned by the contrast of their grim predictions…
Some more prophecy from Pope Pius XII, on preparing oneself for marriage and parenthood:
“It is a curious circumstance and a lamentable one, that whereas no one would dream of suddenly becoming a mechanic or an engineer, a doctor or a lawyer, without any apprenticeship or preparation, yet every day there are numbers of young men and wome…
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“For me to live is Christ. And if I fall at every moment, in a wholly confident faith I will be helped up by him, I know that he will forgive me, that he will cancel out everything [and] will free me from all my miseries…. And I will be holy, pure, without reproach in the Father's eyes.”
- St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
I'm going to assume that this was recorded before Hegseth shivved Ukraine, because the assessment of Trump being likely to muscle the Russians is something else