Our first reading speaks about the curse of infertility as
viewed in the Old Testament. In
it, two women are in conflict—Peninnah, who had been blessed with children and
Hannah, who was barren. While we
know now that infertility has biological and not spiritual causes (in other
words, God does not punish women with infertility), the basic fact of the
sacredness of life remains.
This
view of the Old Testament is at odds with our culture of abortion. In only a few days we will have the
anniversary of the woeful Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade, which allows
abortion to be legally sanctioned in our government. Not only this, but we face publicly funded abortion in the
latest health care reforms in our country.
These
decisions cannot be farther from the truth of the dignity of each life from
conception until natural death.
I
am pleased with the work of many of our parishioners in the pro-life
movement. We are currently joining
in the baby bottle campaign—pick up a bottle, fill it with change and bring it
back—to support the Women’s Care Center in Duluth. This money will help us support women (and men) who have a
baby under difficult situations.
We also took a day a week in last fall’s edition of Forty Days for Life.
Our
faith, from both Scripture and Tradition, emphasizes the sanctity of life. As Christians we are called to uphold
this dignity to the weakest of our members—poor, old and unborn. We continue to pray for an end to
abortion in our country and in the world, that the Gospel of Life may be
proclaimed.
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