Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
The Book of Wisdom encouraged Jews in their faith as they tried to live observantly in a Hellenized culture. As in their time, with growing scientific knowledge and a plurality of philosophical systems from which to seek wisdom, we Catholics need to see anew the wisdom in our own rich tradition.
Read MoreAs children of God, we were created to worship God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that, “God’s first call and just demand is that man accept him and worship him.” (CCC, 2084) The act of abortion is the antithesis of the worship imagery presented in the Book of Revelation. Here a great multitude from every nation, every race, and tongue are gathered before the throne to worship God. With abortion, an innocent life of the human family, willed into existence by God, is intentionally terminated and deprived of the faculty to worship. In abortion, an innocent life of the human family, willed into existence by God, is intentionally terminated and deprived of the faculty to worship.
Read MoreHow often do we who strive to defend the sanctity of life feel like lamenting like the Prophet Jeremiah, who in the first reading was called by the Lord to be a prophet to Judah?
Just as Jeremiah expressed his frustration with the Lord for seemingly having duped him into proclaiming the Lord’s words and then facing rejection from those in authority, we Catholics today too must endure ridicule at the hands of a culture that doesn’t want to hear about the inherent dignity of the human person through all stages in life.
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