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$\"\"$ <\/a> I mentioned in an <\/span>earlier post <\/span><\/a>about the readings from Acts of the Apostles after Easter being crammed with \u2018mini resurrections\u2019. The little resurrections aren\u2019t just Bible stories. They happen today.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a knock on my door. A young woman in her twenties stood on the doorstep. She looked distressed, and was holding her side as if in pain. I didn\u2019t recognize her, but invited her in. She said her name was Jane, and could she talk with me. I listened to her story. Jane told me that she was in constant abdominal pain. The doctors couldn\u2019t figure it out. She had been in this pain for almost a year. She had lost her job because of it. The doctors gave her loads of painkillers, but nothing stopped the acute physical pain. She had come to see me at the priest\u2019s house as a last resort. She asked if I could help.<\/em>
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I sensed that her problem was spiritual and psychological rather than purely physical. Knowing that people often describe their pain in symbolic ways, I asked her to describe her pain. She said \u201cIt\u2019s like someone is ripping my insides out.\u201d<\/em>
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I suspected an abortion. What other procedure rips out the insides of a woman? I looked at Jane, \u201cIs there a love affair in your life that hasn\u2019t worked out?\u201d<\/em>
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Immediately the tears started. The whole story tumbled out of the older married man with whom she\u2019d had an affair. When she fell pregnant her father kicked her out of the house, and with the married man pressured her to have the abortion. She was alone and in agony.<\/em>
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Jane wasn\u2019t a committed Christian, and had virtually no understanding of the sacraments or the church. Nevertheless, I told her about the healing power of Christ, and how in the Mass he is present with us in the most powerful way. We had a Mass for Jane in which some people from the parish came and prayed while Mass was being said. Within the Mass we committed the aborted child to Christ and prayed for forgiveness for the abortionist, for Jane\u2019s lover, for Jane and for her father.<\/em>
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The next week Jane knocked on my door again. I hardly recognized her. The face which had been a mask of pain was transformed. She was a beautiful girl in her twenties. The day afgter the healing Mass Jane\u2019s abdominal pain had disappeared completely. The next summer I went to Jane\u2019s wedding in church.<\/em><\/p>\n

Christus Resurrexit. Alleluia!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"