Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
Today’s Readings instruct us on our responsibility to charitably correct our fellow Catholics. We must not allow our brothers and sisters to persist in error. Instead we must lead them back into the truth so that they may have fullness of life.
Read MoreOur vocation is rarely what we expect. Peter, after being called the foundation of the Church, thinks that his duty is to prevent Christ from suffering and dying. Only after being reprimanded does he realize that his own vocation is not to prevent Christ’s suffering and death, but to join in it.
Read MoreJesus gives Peter authority over the Church, and promises him that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church. Still, in the face of widespread abortion and euthanasia it can often seem that hell is certainly not far from winning the victory. We are now engaged in a battle against these evils, and we do not know how long we must fight, but we are assured that we will succeed, because we are fighting on God’s side.
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