Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
The Solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross offers a message hope in the midst of suffering and death. We should never forget that the tree of death became the tree of new life.
In the first reading, we hear of the impatience of the Israelites on their way to the Promised Land. As a result of their hardness of heart, God sent a scourge of poisonous serpents to punish them.
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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