30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (October 25, 2026)
Ex 22.21-27; 1 Thess 1.5c-10; Mt 22.34-40
In the passage from Exodus, one of the social laws that people must observe is the care of “aliens,” widows, and orphans. Another word for “alien” is “immigrant.”
While the pro-life movement rightly spends a lot of energy defending the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, the focus naturally tends to be on those controversial issues surrounding the beginning and end of human life (abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia).
Today’s readings are a good reminder that God wants us to show immigrants, widows, and orphans the same special care and protection that we show the preborn and the elderly. To be truly pro-life, we shall “love our neighbour as ourselves.”
Pro-Life Intercession
That God, who hears the cry of all who are injured and vulnerable, may open our ears to that same cry and enable us to build a culture of life, we pray to the Lord ...