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RESPECT LIFE: BE LIGHT

"Nations shall walk by your light, and kings by your shining radiance. Raise your eyes and look about; they all gather and come toyou; your sons come from afar, and your daughters in the arms of their nurses." (Isaiah 60: 3-4)

"It is a poverty to decide a child must die so that you may live as you wish." (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Catholic Christians are people of life who see each person, as Jesus did, as worthy recipients of our love and protection. The Gospel of Jesus calls us to defend all life from conception to natural death. The unborn are an especially defenseless segment of the population. It is a national scandal that on average 4,000 abortions are performed daily in this country.

Stay informed. Find out about proposed legislation on issues of life and death before state and federal legislatures. Contact your representatives. Let them know you are a registered voter in their district and want their support for bills which protect life. Visit this website for further information: the U. S. Catholic Bishops site is http://www.usccb.org.

Pray for an end to all practices which destroy and diminish life: war, abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, discrimination, poverty.

The late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin stated in the Consistent Ethic of Life..."If one contends, as we do, that the right of every fetus to be born should be protected by civil law and supported by civil consensus, then our moral, political and economic responsibilities do not end at the moment of birth. Those who defend the right to life of the the weakest among us must be equally visible in the support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker."

As Pope John Paul II stated in his encyclical THE GOSPEL OF LIFE: "May the people of life constantly grow in number and may a new culture of love and solidarity develop for the true good of the whole human society." (#101)

May we grow in respect for the dignity of all people, and be reconcilers for those hurting.

Take special care,
Fr. Terry

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