Spiritual Works of Mercy

Every year, The Houston Coalition for Life invites you to participate in the spring 40 Days for Life. As faithful Christians we begin our journey with prayer, fasting and sacrifices. Uniting ourselves with our Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered and died on the cross to redeem us all. Lent calls us to pray, fast and give alms. We exercise the Spiritual Works of Mercy on the sidewalk every time we pray outside an abortion facility, bringing the light of our Lord Jesus Christ in a place of darkness to women experiencing a crisis pregnancy, to the abortion workers, and to the people visiting for other issues.

The Seven Spiritual Works of Mercy:

Counseling the doubtful: By sharing the truth about the humanity of the preborn baby in the womb, we are acknowledging the sanctity of every human being created in the image and likeness of God.

Instructing the ignorant: By counseling what abortion really is and its consequences helps women make the right decision between life and death.

Admonishing the sinner: As an act of mercy, we let women know what abortion can do to her, her soul, and how abortion can harm her physically, spiritually and psychologically.

Comforting the sorrowful: By bringing healing to a woman who has experienced one or more abortions, we help her to reconcile with God, and restore the life of grace in her soul.

Forgiving offenses: Praying for the conversion and a change of heart of the abortionists and facility workers, and letting them know that God can forgive a repentant heart.

Bearing wrongs patiently: Knowing that God is the one bringing healing and saving the lives of the most innocent and that we are simple instruments of His mercy, helps us bear any wrongdoing.

Praying for the living and the dead: Praying on the sidewalk of any abortion facility, especially in the one that we know that thousands of innocent lives were sacrificed by abortion. There, we also pray for the living, the mother and child and everyone involved in the abortion in and out of the State.

At Calvary, we contemplate the suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ, and on the sidewalk we meditate on the suffering of the baby in the womb by abortion, knowing that there is nothing greater that we can experience than the suffering of both our Lord Jesus Christ and the baby in the womb.

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Florentina Nunez