Mother of Millions

This song is dedicated to the Catholic Bishop of Zhengding, China, Julius Jia Zhiguo, who, twenty years ago found an abandoned handicapped baby on his door step.  In between prison and re-education camp, and usually under house arrest with 24 hour surveillance, he has cared for the hundred or so handicapped orphans that followed the first with the aid of a community of religious sisters.  The Chinese authorities now demand that the Bishop should sign over the children or spend the rest of his life - he is 75 - in re-education camp.

The Mother of Millions of the refrain is St Colette, the Poor Clare patron saint of children.  Haizi is mandarin for child.  The words and music  were created by the little sisters of the Poor Clare Colettine Community of Ty Mam Duw Wales, who also sing it on this track.

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Haizi, Haizi
In the dawn, upon the doorstep,
lies a naked new born child
with a torn and twisted shoulder
and an unsuspecting smile.

Haizi, Haizi
Child conceived without permission,
with no license to arrive,
with no Yuan to buy exemption,
with no leave to be alive.

Haizi, Haizi
You tell no one where you came from,
laid before the Bishop's door
in your silent pain you whimper
like the hundred other more.

    Mother of millions,
    who carried no child of her own,
    pray for the orphan, the wounded, the unborn;
    take the child rejected
    neglected and alone.

Haizi, Haizi
From the poor and humble Bishop
who spent twenty years in jail,
from the thirty little sisters.
from the shelter of the veil -

Haizi, Haizi
- they will take you. And your Bishop,
'neath interrogation lamps,
still cant read the lies writ backwards
in Re-education Camps.

    Mother of millions,
    who carried no child of her own,
    pray for the orphan, the wounded, the unborn;
    take the child rejected,
    neglected and alone.


Ty Mam Duw Poor Clare Colettine Community
Upper Aston Hall Lane
Hawarden
North Wales
CH5 3EN
GB