{"id":5207,"date":"2006-01-23T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/requiem-for-the-unborn.html"},"modified":"2006-01-23T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T12:48:42","slug":"requiem-for-the-unborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/requiem-for-the-unborn.html","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for the Unborn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a commenter, I’m alerted to this interesting story:<\/p>\n

Shantigarh Requiem for the Unborn<\/a> composed by John Bonaduce (according to the commentor, the brother of Partridge Family<\/em> Danny Bonaduce – and he does resemble him in the photo here)<\/a> over the past ten years, and used in the Archdiocese of LA memorial Mass for the unborn. The link above is an article from the 2004 LA Tidings:<\/em><\/p>\n

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The liturgy, named the Shantigarh Requiem for the Unborn, is a journey through Scripture. The very first words sung by a choir of more than 100 are from the Book of Wisdom: "Before the Lord, the whole universe is as a grain or a drop of morning dew. And though we are small his love is great, for he is Lord and lover of souls." <\/p>\n

Bonaduce said those words struck him as a perfect memorial for the unborn. <\/p>\n

"If the Lord can see us in a drop of morning dew, I invite the listener to see life in a single cell or in an unborn child. If God can make that reach, it’s my hope that we can," he said.<\/p>\n

The emotional center of the liturgy takes place after Communion when some 160 people will process with candles up to the altar. That number — 160 — represents the number of estimated abortions that will take place in Los Angeles on Jan. 23. Bonaduce settled on that figure based on data from the California Pro-Life Council. <\/p>\n

The candles are lit in memory of "these little lives that were a part of our world when our sun rose and at setting are no longer with us," said Bonaduce. "It’s only these candles to suggest they were ever here."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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