Prayer Procession "500 Crosses for Life"

Saturday 13th November 2010

The EuroPorLife procession started Westminster Cathedral on the 13th Nov. Some 350 peace loving Christian people turned up with warm generous hearts that ache with the pain and suffering for children lost in the barbarism of abortion.

From the Cathedral the process set off, crossing at Lambeth and Westminster Bridges, offering prayers unceasingly to Our Lord and Saviour to forgive the mothers and fathers for their involvement in the lost of their unborn children. With sorrow they called a names of aborted babies and throwing white and red roses into the eddies of murky brown water that is the Thames as the bell of Big Ben tolls. Their kneeling on the bridge, as the roses drift past the parliament that made it legal and thus perversely moral, was in sorrow for the loss to the family, respect for the life and in memorial less they forget.

The stirring silence and spectacle of kneeling Christians bearing white crosses made some passersby stop and sigh some in approval and some in disapproval. It mattered not the for the intention was not aimed at them but at Our Lord showing him that they are ready to be counted as his servants in spite of their own sin. The silent prayers were offered, and by the grace of God reached to out to the guilty abortionist and nursing staff who procure the evil on the desperate mothers. Raising and maintaining the silence, the Christians process around to the front of the Palace of Westminster. And yes those who from the warm and comfortable and heavily protected womb of our political system also figured in the call for mercy by the hundreds of men women and children that lined the street of Westminster singing for Divine Mercy.

The peace conveyed and the sense of love was profound and welcomed by a city that has difficulty in mourning for more than 7 million tiny defenceless unborn children that have passed through the slaughter houses called hospitals and clinics. Their knees met with the cold hard ground which seemed warmer and softer than the cold heard hearts of our politicians who the word mercy seems so foreign when it comes to the most defenceless in every society.

Mercy was begged for them from the bottom of the hearts of each Christian present and many who were spiritually present. As dusk set in a sea of white crosses moved slowly through Westminster Abbey gardens where hundreds of tiny crosses had being planted with names of the fallen in our wars. Wars of the 20th Century; the century of great progress in almost all areas of evolution but sadly none greater than the industrialisation of killing men women and children.

Christians of all denominations were welcomed by the guards of Westminster Abbey and were guided around the plaque laid to “Remember all innocent victims of oppression, violence and war”. The unborn child is this victim and continues to be so even into this 21st century. It was here that their final prayers were offered; prayer for themselves who have contributed to the killing by their taxes and their votes, by their tolerance and guilty silence.

They acknowledged their sin for electing those who made and maintain the legality of brutality on these children and in the dark on their knees beg for mercy. It is here that they promise that they will not forget, or neglect the plight of the unborn children in the wombs of desperate mothers, for they are their brothers’ keeper and protector.