Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, continues his reflections on praying to end abortion. This video begins with Fr. Pavone explaining that âWe donât see abortion walking down the street. What we see instead is a woman, a mother, who is frightened and in despair. When we pray to end abortion therefore, one of the primary targets of our prayer is that mother. That weâre praying that grace will come to her to strengthen her to choose life.â âAbortion is the greatest evil that we are facing in the world today,â Says Fr. Pavone, and âWhen you think about it, Evil is the absence of something good, or the corruption of something good. You canât have a bad apple, a rotten apple unless you first have something good, which is an appleâ¦And so it is with abortion, itâs a lack; itâs a corruption of something good. Here we have a mother carrying a child and now forces are working on her mind and on her heart to put her into such fear and despair that she is tempted to kill her child.â âThe prayer to end abortion is in part a prayer that grace will come to her (the mother) that will counteract the things that are pulling her in that wrong direction,â continues Fr. Pavone, âand maybe as a result of that prayer the grace will be that someone speaks upâ¦or that she sees an ultrasound of her baby, or that she suddenly gets an insight that sheâs not always going to feel the way she feels today.â And concluding Fr. Pavone says âAs we pray to end abortion, we pray very specifically, very deliberately for those mothers that they may be delivered from despair.â
