We've just begun the third week of prayer and fasting to end abortion in Montreal. Hard to believe we're already almost half-way done! 

One of the blessings of these 40 Days for Life is realizing that God works in small ways, using little people like us, to make big changes. There are days when you wish that things could happen more quickly, that your prayers could be answered and that the people of this city would just "snap out of it" and decide to give the unborn the protection and respect they deserve. Why can't it happen over night, why must we wait so long?

Being out there in the wind and sleet, watching people go in and out of the clinic and knowing what happens behind those walls, can make you feel pretty small and powerless, almost as powerless as a God who died crucified.

And that's the point: if God thought it necessary to die powerless on the cross to redeem humanity, we who love him must do the same, renouncing worldy ways to bring about change and choosing peaceful ways instead.

I'm convinced that the pain Christ felt on the cross was more mental than physical: his human condition had to fight with all its might against the temptation to "come down from the cross" to set things aright, like a "true" messiah. By praying in front of these abortion facilities, we're doing the same thing: putting aside our worldly ideas about how the evil of abortion should end, and letting God show us the true path to ending the evil of abortion in this city and the world at large.

To Join the 40 Days for Life Vigil

• Simply show up at Park Lahaie, located across the street from the Morgentaler Abortion Clinic at 30 St. Joseph E. in Montreal, between 7 am and 7pm.
• Sign up online
• Email us
• Call (514) 344-2686