Sat Mar 19, 2022 – 6:00 am EDT
SANTA CRUZ, California (LifeSiteNews) — Overlooking the cliffs of the Santa Cruz shoreline, the Shrine of St. Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer, run by the Oblates of St. Joseph in California, offers a special place of healing, prayer, and reconciliation for mothers and fathers who have chosen to abort their child but now turn to God for forgiveness.
The Shrine, dedicated in 1952 in honor of St. Joseph, whose feast day is celebrated on March 19, includes an outdoor grotto erected in 2001 in which a seven-foot statue depicts St. Joseph as Patron of the Unborn, holding in his hand a 6-month- old fetus. The purpose of the grotto is similar to that of “Project Rachel”: post-abortion healing. The artist, Thomas Marsh, intended the face of St. Joseph to “reflect God’s love, the gravity of the situation, grief, forgiveness, protective strength, tenderness and comfort for the baby, and peace.” On the walls surrounding the grotto hang plaques with the names of aborted or miscarried babies entrusted to God through St. Joseph by mothers and fathers seeking healing.
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