Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
Have you heard of the term DINKS? It stands for “Double-Income-No-Kids.” If you pick up one of our national newspapers, especially the weekend edition, sooner or later you’ll come across a light article featuring a couple of bourgeois yuppies who live in a trendy condo, have lots of disposable income, eat out all the time, buy expensive kitchen appliances and the latest gadgets, and are quite satisfied with their “lifestyle”, so much so that they do not wish to have children.
Read MoreMany say that having an unplanned child, especially those born into poor, single or unloving homes, condemns both the child and the mother to a life of great difficulty. But as the first reading suggests, “Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the Lord intends?”
Read MoreSt. Francis of Assisi famously called the poor the Church’s real treasures and today’s Psalm reminds us of this, as God, in his goodness, has “made a home for the poor.”
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