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Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Wis 12:13, 16-19 Rom 8:26-27 Mt 13:24-43 or 13:24-30 God gives time for repentance. This is a key theme of today’s readings, and it can be applied to the patience that the People of Life need to have as they build a Culture of Life with painstakingly slow but steady steps. Why, some might ask, does God not just stop all the abortions today? He certainly does not justify a single one of them, nor does he allow us to justify them. Moreover, he calls us to do the most we can to restore justice today. Yet the weeds and wheat grow together; good and evil co-exist. This generous patience of the Lord by which he allows the sinner room to find repentance has led to many conversions. The website of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, for example, contains numerous testimonies of those who speak out about their abortion and healing (www.SilentNoMore.com ). Also, many abortionists have converted and now speak out publicly about it (see www.AbortionTestimony.com. ). As we try to elect and lobby public officials, it is particularly important to emphasize the theme of patience. Weeds and wheat grow together – but they do grow. As the bishops indicate in Living the Gospel of Life, we are called to use our votes to advance the culture of life. Yet no candidate has a magic wand to end the culture of death.

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Is 55:10-11 Rom 8:18-23 Mt 13:1-23 or 13:1-9 The whole world was created by the Word of God. Genesis shows God creating by speaking, and John’s Gospel points out in the first chapter that this Word that God spoke in the beginning was in fact Christ. Paul expounds the same truth in the first chapter of Colossians, which in fact contains a commentary on the first verse of the Bible. Christ is that “beginning” of which Genesis speaks, and “all things were created by him and for him.” When, therefore, today’s readings speak about the fruitfulness of the Word of God – Isaiah declaring that the word accomplishes the end for which it is sent, and Jesus explaining how the seed will bear fruit – they are not to be understood only in a spiritual sense. The fruitfulness of the Word is also physical, starting with human life itself. Mary said, “Be it done unto me according to your word,” and by that word the physical conception of Christ took place. Likewise, the conception and birth of each human being is a fulfillment of the promises in today’s readings. When did God decide that you or the people around you should start to exist? The answer is, “From all eternity.” There was never a time when God did not intend each living person to exist, nor when he did not have definitive plans for each person’s life. “My word will not return to me void.” The plan, the eternal word, that God has for each person, is not to return void because of a veto on our part. Contraception, abortion, and euthanasia all constitute an offensive “No” to this Word, an attempt to veto an eternal decision of God regarding the fruitfulness of each life. Part of the reason for these “vetoes” is the “worldly anxiety” referred to in the Gospel. This anxiety leads to the temptation to cut off the fruitfulness of life. Yet Paul, in the second reading, puts those anxieties in an eschatological perspective, inviting us to hold firm through life’s difficulties and continue saying yes to God’s plan. Interestingly, it is precisely the reality of childbirth that he uses to describe the full unfolding of God’s plan for all creation.

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Zec 9:9-10 Rom 8:9, 11-13 Mt 11:25-30 “His dominion” (First reading) is brought about through “the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead” (Second reading). It is the dominion of life over death, not only in our bodies (Second reading) but in our culture, institutions, laws and policies. That Spirit dwells in us (Second reading). We, therefore, are life-givers! In fact, we will either spread life or death. There is no neutrality. It is an easier yoke (Gospel) to both embrace and spread life than death, because we were made that way. We were made to be life-givers. The Son wishes to reveal the Father to us (Gospel) precisely through that Spirit. What do we learn when he does so reveal the Father? We find the revelation of ourselves – people of life, people of self-giving, people who can love like the Father loves!

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. 2 Kings 4, 8-11 and 14-16 Romans 6, 3-4 and 8-11 Matthew 10, 37-42 The readings of today are all about life and welcome, and the relationship between the two. As a result of welcoming Elisha, the holy man of God, the woman of Shunem is given the gift of a child. As a result of welcoming Christ, the Holy One of God, we are all given the new life of which the second reading speaks. These readings have immediate application to the theme of welcoming the representatives of God who come preaching his word. Yet the theme of welcome extends likewise to every human being. Christ is the one who welcomes us into the life he shares with the Father, and therefore the only appropriate response for us -- as individuals and as a community -- is to extend welcome to all whom Christ welcomes, that is, to every human life. It would be a contradiction to accept the welcome of Christ but to reject another human life. In welcoming other human lives, furthermore, it is necessary to apply the first part of the Gospel reading, namely, the embracing of the cross and the bringing of ourselves to nought. This is the opposite of the self-centered assertion of "pro-choice" and "my rights, my life." In contradiction to the idea that we are fulfilled by asserting ourselves (even at the cost of the life of an unborn child), the Lord teaches here that it is precisely in self-giving that we find ourselves. Parents give themselves to their children, whether born or in the womb, and in so doing they experience the very love of Christ and the life to which that love leads.

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Welcome, dear friends! In this special time of reflection, we come together in unity and love to experience the profound depths of His mercy. As we gather in prayer, we invite you to join us on this spiritual journey. 🙏💕 We hope that our time of prayer provides you with comfort and renews your spirit. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe if you find this video helpful – let's spread the love and the message of His mercy. 💖✨🕊️ #HeartOfHisMercy #PrayerWithFriends #SpiritualJourney #FaithUnites #DivineMercy #PrayerCircle #PeaceInPrayer

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Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Jer 20:10-13 Rom 5:12-15 Mt 10:26-33 “All the hairs of your head are counted…you are worth more than many sparrows.” This assertion in today’s Gospel forms the basis for preaching on how much God values human life. It is not just “living things” that God values, because he created them. Rather, it is human beings – worth more than other living beings – who are privileged to have a particular relationship with God. This “capacity for God” marks out what we mean by the “sanctity” of human life. There is a relationship opened up for us with the Creator – a relationship of which lower forms of life are not capable. We can know him, praise him, receive a share in his divine nature, and one day see him face to face. We were made for him, as St. Augustine said, and our hearts are restless until we rest in him. If a sparrow does not fall to the ground without the Father’s knowledge, what about a tiny unborn child killed “in secret” by chemical abortions (sometimes masquerading as birth control), or a new human embryo destroyed “in secret” in a laboratory in the name of “research?” Part of acknowledging Jesus before others, then, is to bear witness to the care that he and the Father give to the smallest human lives, and the concern God has to preserve such life.

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Ex 19:2-6a Rom 5:6-11 Mt 9:36 - 10:8 Jesus as Shepherd, and the need for “laborers for the harvest,” are familiar themes. What is helpful to emphasize about those themes today, in particular, is that the sheep are “troubled and abandoned.” God is saying that what the laborers have to do is to gather the people in (like the harvest) because, as the Lord said in today’s first reading, they are to be “my special possession.” As the psalm says, “He made us; his we are.” This is the basis for Jesus giving the authority to cure disease and expel demons. Diseases and demons are ravaging people who belong to God. They are, in a sense, stealing God’s possession away from him. And that’s exactly what abortion does thousands of times a day in the United States alone. At the heart of the debate is not primarily the question, “When does life begin?”. Rather, it is the question, “To whom do we belong?” Dr. James McMahon was an abortionist in Southern California and performed partial-birth abortions. When asked by the American Medical Association news how he justified doing it, he admitted that the baby was a child, but then said there was a more important question, “Who owns the child? It’s got to be the mother,” he explained. Intervening for the child, advocating that the child belongs to God, is an aspect of gathering in the flock who are abandoned; inspiring hope and strength in the mother and father to say “Yes” to life is an aspect of helping the flock who are troubled. (In this, fathers have a particular role.) It is also a fulfillment of the command in today’s Gospel to “raise the dead.” We may wrestle with this one. In what sense do we fulfill this command of Jesus? Was it only for the apostles? Does it only refer to those dead “in spirit,” whom we can rouse to life-giving repentance? Or perhaps does it also mean that those who are tottering at the brink of death, that is, children in the womb scheduled to be aborted, can be brought back from death by those who speak up for them and who reach out to their parents with alternatives and assistance?

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for Trinity Sunday and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9 2 Cor 13:11-13 Jn 3:16-18 The readings today, of course, present again the truth that God is One in Three Persons. Preaching pro-life on the Feast of the Holy Trinity leads us to comment on the reality of “communion". Seen in a unique way in the Trinity, this is a reality lived on a human level as well. It is first of all a gift, and secondly a task, consisting of a total self-giving to one another. The unity of families, nations, and the world depend on it. As the bulletin insert above indicates, this is a key reason for today’s Feast. A particular application is in the matter of abortion. There are no two human beings closer than a mother and her unborn child. Abortion disrupts, denies, and distorts the union of these two persons, and in doing so, further destroys family and societal unity. Most marriages break up after an abortion, and the woman often experiences an inability to bond with future children or even enter into future relationships with men. Her ability to trust and to make life decisions is impaired by abortion. Standing for life and protecting the unborn means fostering the “communion" we see, in its ultimate form, in the Trinity. Life is preserved precisely when it is given away in self-sacrificing love.

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for Pentecost and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ez 37:1-14 or Jl 3:1-5 Rom 8:22-27 Jn 7:37-39 Day: Acts 2:1-11 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 Jn 20:19-23 Fifty days after the Passover, the People of Israel celebrated “Pentecost,” observing the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, when God wrote the law with his own finger on the tablets of stone. The feast was originally rooted in the celebration of the harvest. It was on that Pentecost Day that the apostles reaped the harvest of the Lord’s Passover of suffering, crucifixion, and resurrection, and received the Holy Spirit, who writes the law on our hearts. This same Holy Spirit who came mightily on Pentecost comes to us. The same Spirit is in us, by our baptism and confirmation – the same Spirit who transformed the apostles, who raises the dead, and who changes bread and wine into Christ’s Body and Blood. That same Spirit is in us, and this should give us tremendous confidence in following Christ. The Holy Spirit, the “Lord and Giver of Life,” brings us back to our truest selves as he illumines us regarding the sanctity of life. The Spirit brings many gifts, and one of them is to enable us to see creation in its proper relationship to God – including the crowning of his creation, the gift of human life. When we do not have this light of the Holy Spirit, the law we have to follow seems like an imposition from the outside that limits our freedom. That’s what people in the world sometimes feel about our attitude toward abortion and euthanasia. They think we are “restricting rights.” But when the Holy Spirit fills us, he gives us an inner attraction to all that is right and good, so that we do not feel pushed where we would rather not go, but rather pulled by the attractiveness of what is good and right. The Holy Spirit is also the Advocate, who pleads our cause. When he fills us, he makes us advocates for all our brothers and sisters in need, including the most vulnerable, the unborn.

Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the Ascension and their message about abortion. For more information about what the Sunday readings, and the whole Bible, say about abortion, and for resources for your Church, see https://www.ProLifePreaching.org. You can order there the book “Proclaiming the Message of Life,” which contains these reflections for all the Sunday readings in the lectionary. Acts 1:1-11 Eph 1:17-23 Mt 28:16-20 The Ascension is a powerful feast on which to preach the sanctity of human life, because at its core, this feast is about our human nature being exalted to the heights of heaven. The “Bulletin Insert” above contains a synopsis of what direction the homily of this Sunday can take, whether it is the Feast of the Ascension, or the Seventh Sunday of Easter (on which the Gospel reading for this year contains the quote from John 17 about the glory Jesus had before the world began). The faithful can be encouraged to use this Sunday as a launching point to pray each day this week to the Holy Spirit, as we approach Pentecost. The Spirit, who is the Advocate, makes us advocates when he fills our hearts – advocates for the weakest and most vulnerable among us, including the unborn. Priests for Life has prepared a special pro-life “Pentecost Novena” prayer that people can download from www.PrayerCampaign.org.

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Janet (Folger) Porter is a pro-life pioneer, having been the architect of “Heartbeat” legislation to protect the unborn. She is a long-time friend of Fr. Frank Pavone and supporter of Priests for Life and in this video she tells us why. She gave the following remarks on March 29, 2023.