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MIDLANDPRAYER SAVES CHILD By Neil Smith
The prayers of a congregation of more than 100 worshippers at a special Mass at St Brigid's, Midland. on Friday. April 5, had an immediate response when a woman seeking an abortion changed her mind. The Archbishop of Perth, Barry Hickey and four priests concelebrated the Mass to mark the Annunciation - the anniversary of the day the Virgin Mary conceived Jesus Christ. Later, more than 60 of the worshippers marched with the Archbishop through the streets of Midland reciting the Rosary, to a women's clinic, where they knelt on the street verge and mounted a vigil. praying for mothers and their unborn children. The woman saw the worshippers kneeling in prayer when she arrived to inquire about an abortion, and it convinced her to change her mind. She told organisers of the vigil their prayers had inspired her to keep the baby. The woman - whose identity cannot be revealed to preserve her anonymity and privacy - left without entering the clinic. Earlier, Archbishop Hickey during the Mass said special prayers for the Australian and state governments, and the Prime Minister, John Howard, who announced the previous night that stem cell research on
"surplus embryos" had been Friar Raphael and Archbishop Barry approved in Australia. Archbishop Hickey giving Communion at the special Hickey condemned governments Mass for the Aanunciation at St Brigid's, and a society who placed so little Midland, on Fdday, April 5. value on human life. Many people accepted pamphlets He prayed for all mothers and their handed out. Later at the vigil, the unborn children, and urged society worshippers lined up in orderly to ensure protection of the innocent. fashion along the verge in front of Many pregnant mothers, other the clinic. mothers and infants and grandparCare was taken to avoid interfering ents attended the Mass that was con- with pedestrians or people entering celebrated by Friars Raphael and or leaving the clinic and neighbourElias, and Fathers Paul Carey and ing businesses. However, a woman Stephen Casey who announced herself as the office Nuns of the Sisters of the Immacu- manager of the clinic said she had late led the congregation in hymns called police. for the Mass. She was particularly concerned Archbishop Hickey said the birth that photographers may have taken of Christ and the Resurrection were pictures of the clinic's clients, which symbols of hope "for us and the she said would be a breach of the world." He attacked the secularisa- Privacy Act. Gavin Statham, of the tion of society, saying it was a dan- Insurance business next door also ger to humankind. complained the vigil interfered with It was only by following God's Will his clients entering his premises. Vigils are held every Friday mornand God's Word that there was hope ing outside the clinic, with a procesfor the future. As the worshippers marched sion also on the first Friday of each through the streets of Midland, they month. A vigil-keeper, top picture, carries an image of the Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, in the pro- recited the Rosary that was beamed Reaction to Stem Cell decision cession. Later, Archbishop Barry Hickey lead prayers in the vigil outside the clinic. - Page 3 Photos. Nest Smith out through portable loud speakers.
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