Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
"The preeminent issue is abortion..."
A homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2024
Our opening
prayer at Mass this morning just a few minutes ago was “Lord, make us love what you command”
Why do we pray that? Because all of God's commands to us are for our own good right now, right here...but we are always being tempted by Satan, so we need to ALWAYS be praying that we grow deeper in love with God asks of us.
On February 3, 1994 now SAINT Mother
Teresa of Calcutta was the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast
with President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary in attendance.
She said, in her remarks “The
greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the
child, a direct killing of the innocent child by the mother herself. And if we
accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people
not to kill one another? the greatest
destroyer of love and peace is abortion…We cannot solve all the problems in the
world, but let us never tell people to practice contraception and abortion.”
Already in the Old Testament God tells
the Israelites wandering in the desert that God is going to allow the Israelite
people to conquer the current inhabitants because the current inhabitants were sacrifice
their new-born children to a demon God by throwing their children into a fire
and watching them burn to death.
In the Old Testament, God also says “Before
I formed you in the womb, I knew you!”
Some here at this Mass may have had an
abortion or helped someone obtain an abortion…God wants to forgive you if you
have not already confessed it…God loves you!!!
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis and the
Catholic Church in the United States is the number one advocate in the country
helping women who have had an abortion heal from it, offering the Sacrament of
Confession and retreats for women who have had an abortion.
The Catholic Church and the crisis
pregnancy centers around the country are also the number one organization in
the country helping mothers of unplanned pregnancies take care of their
children, offering classes, diapers, formula, cribs, clothing, financial
assistance…whatever moms need we help them…and guess what would happen if you
went to an abortion facility and tried to get any of that assistance?
Some in the Catholic Church have put
forward “The seamless garment of life theory” that all issues of life are the
same, but the Catholic Church has NEVER taught that all issues of life
are the same weight.
The US Bishops at their annual meeting in Baltimore have
overwhelmingly voted every year, including the document they put out for
Catholic voting this year, that the threat of abortion should be
every Catholic’s number one priority in the voting booth.
As St. Teresa of Calcutta reminded the United States
30 years ago, the GREATEST destroyer of peace is abortion.
On the issue of abortion, God commands
us to love every human life. As we
prayed at the beginning of Mass “Lord, make us love what you command!”