40th anniversary of the Abortion act
6 and a half million abortions in the last 40 years. The hymn by Fr Francis Gordon set to Gordon Slater's "St Botolph" is very fine. Begotten of His Love Divine Before Creation's dawn Let God's own Son our hearts incline To cherish the unborn. For clothed like us in human clay Of heav'nly glory shorn, Th'eternal Word, incarnate, lay In Mary's womb, unborn. "Take heed", said He, "that you forswear These little ones to scorn" - Created by God's will to bear His image, though unborn. For every artist, saint and sage, Whose works our world adorn With virtues each succeeding age, Like Him, were once unborn. Eternal Son, Incarnate Word, The Child of Christmas morn, In mercy let our prayer be heard For those as yet unborn! Throughout this service I was thinking about the child that Liz miscarried. A boy or a girl? I know I was very upset that I could not get to the hospital that night as I had to play at a Christmas service and relieve...