Our Lady of Good Counsel and the Abortion Act

The Abortion Act was passed in 1967, but abortion actually became legal on the 27th April 1968. The day before that, 26th April, was the Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel, meaning that the last day that abortion was illegal in Britain was on that Feast of God’s Mother in 1968.

This coming Sunday is the Feast of Our Lady, Mother of Good Counsel; the following day will see the 58th Anniversary of the Abortion Bill becoming law. Since that terrible day almost 11 million babies have been killed by abortion.

A third of pregnancies in this country end in abortion. On this Good Shepherd Sunday in particular, let us remember that for every two Priests that are ordained, another one may have been aborted.

Please take a moment, now, and again on Sunday to say the prayer below to Our Lady, Mother of Good Counsel for our work and for the mothers and babies that we seek to help.

Please also think about what you can do to support the women that we serve. Please read this article about Our Lady, Mother of Good Counsel and share it with friends and Family.

                           Prayer to Our Lady of Good Counsel

O, Holy Virgin, to whose feet we are led by our anxious uncertainty in our search for and attainment of what is true and good, invoking thee by the sweet title of Mother of Good Counsel we beseech thee to come to our assistance, when along the road of this life, the darkness of error and of evil conspires towards our ruin by leading our minds and our hearts astray.

Do Thou, O Seat of Wisdom and Star of the Sea, Enlighten the doubtful and the erring, that they be not seduced by the false appearances of good, render them steadfast in the face of the hostile and corrupting influences of passion and of sin.

O Mother of Good Counsel, obtain for us from Thy Divine Son a great love of Virtue and, in the hour of uncertainty and trial, the strength to embrace the way that leads to our salvation. If Thy hand sustains us, we shall walk unmolested along the path indicated to us by the life and words of Jesus our Redeemer; and having followed freely and securely, even in the midst of this world's strife, the sun of truth and justice under Thy Maternal Star, we shall come to the enjoyment of full and eternal peace with Thee in the Haven of Salvation. Amen.

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