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Pro Life Leader Frank Pavone and executive Director Janet Morana are in Washington DC today as the newly elected House of Representatives votes on two prolife measures. We are meeting with lawmakers and conservative leaders to encourage this next step of progress in our movement!

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Join us in Washington DC on January 20th for the 25th Annual National Prayer Service before the March for Life where we will celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade! Live Music will be provided by Mike Donehey, Mass will be presided over by Fr. David Begany, and we will be honoring the special guests Roland Warren, Christopher Slattery, Joan Andrews Bell, Christopher Bell, Thomas Glessner, Denise Cocciolone, and Margaret (Peggy) Hartshorn. For more information, please visit NationalPrayerService.org #ProLife #MarchForLife #MarchForLife2023

Join us in Washington DC on January 20th for the 25th Annual National Prayer Service before the March for Life where we will celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade! Live Music will be provided by Mike Donehey, Mass will be presided over by Fr. David Begany, and we will be honoring the special guests Roland Warren, Christopher Slattery, Joan Andrews Bell, Christopher Bell, Thomas Glessner, Denise Cocciolone, and Margaret (Peggy) Hartshorn. For more information, please visit NationalPrayerService.org #ProLife #MarchForLife #MarchForLife2023

Join us in Washington DC on January 20th for the 25th Annual National Prayer Service before the March for Life where we will celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade! Live Music will be provided by Mike Donehey, Mass will be presided over by Fr. David Begany, and we will be honoring the special guests Roland Warren, Christopher Slattery, Joan Andrews Bell, Christopher Bell, Thomas Glessner, Denise Cocciolone, and Margaret (Peggy) Hartshorn. For more information, please visit NationalPrayerService.org #ProLife #MarchForLife #MarchForLife2023

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The 28th Annual National Prayer Service January 20, 2023 Dar Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. 1776 D St. NW (18th and D St.) Washington, DC 20006 Friday, January 20, 2023 8:30-10:30 am Catholic Mass at 7:30 am

Silent No More

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Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 1st Sunday of Lent, 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. Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7 Rom 5:12-19 or 5:12, 17-19 Mt 4:1-11 Today’s readings, in the powerful context of the beginning of Lent, reinforce the fact that God is Lord of our choices, and that freedom is found in obedience. This strikes at the heart of the culture of death, which puts choice above life and holds that a choice is validated not so much by what is chosen as by the fact that it is being chosen. This original temptation, outlined in the first reading, was a promise that what was right and what was wrong would be up to us; that we could write our own moral law. That’s what the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” meant, and why Adam and Eve couldn’t eat from it. We are all called to know good from evil, but not to decide it. To think we decide it is the error of the “pro-choice” mindset. “It’s all up to me and my choice, even if it means killing a baby.” The obedience of Jesus Christ, exemplified in the Gospel passage and identified in the second reading as the source of our redemption, is the foundation for the culture of life and the pattern for each believer to live that culture. Obedience does not mean a slavish following of rules. It means a free embrace of what is true and good – free because one is no longer swayed to do what is wrong despite one’s best intentions. In that sense, the Church, and the pro-life movement, are the true promoters and defenders of “freedom of choice,” because they provide the grace and the tools to do what is right. The majority of the efforts of the pro-life movement are directed to providing alternatives to abortion, concrete help to enable people to choose what is right.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 7th 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. Lv 19:1-2, 17-18 1 Cor 3:16-23 Mt 5:38-48 The Lord Jesus makes universal the commandment of love. The Father’s “sun rises on the bad and the good, he rains on the just and the unjust.” So Christians are not to draw false boundaries to their love. Christ, after all, now has full authority in heaven and on earth. He has embraced and redeemed the entire universe, and has given us a share in his dominion and in his power to love. “All these are yours, and you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s,” Paul tells us in the Second Reading. So loving everybody comes with the territory. One of the false distinctions, therefore, is between born and unborn. There can be no difference in our love. The size or age or level of dependency of a child cannot exempt us from loving and caring for the life of that child. Nor can it exempt us from recognizing the personhood of that child in the law. “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” This does not simply mean we love our neighbor in the way or to the extent that we love ourselves. It means we love our neighbor as a person like ourselves. We recognize that whatever differences there may be between ourselves and our neighbors, they still have the same human dignity that we share. We are to see through all the differences, recognize that common dignity, and love them as a person like ourselves. Ultimately, this command of universal love is not simply an external command. It is not God saying, “Do this because I told you,” as if it were just an item on a list of do’s and don’ts. Rather, it is because we are called to be like God. “You must be perfected as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Perfected in love, in service, in selflessness. “Be holy, for I am holy,” the Lord declares to Moses and the Israelites. His command of love is followed by the declaration, “I am the Lord.” When we hold up the standard of love for born and unborn alike, we are not claiming to be better than anyone else. Rather, we are pointing to the one who made us all, and who wants us all to be just like him.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 5th 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 58:7-10 1 Cor 2:1-5 Mt 5:13-16 The readings today focus on how the children of the King are to show to the world who their Father is by acting like him. This, in fact, is the best way to accomplish the “New Evangelization,” the re-announcement of the Gospel in places where, though it was once accepted, it has been eclipsed by secularism. When that happens, as Pope Benedict has said, we lose a proper understanding of the meaning of the most basic human experiences, like birth and death. That is why it is so hard for some to perceive that abortion is always wrong. We can convince them through many arguments. But even more powerful, as Paul declares in the second reading, is “the convincing power of the Spirit.” That power convinces people when they see the Spirit’s effects in our own lives. We become the light of the world, as Jesus indicated. Regarding the pro-life issues, we are called to let people see that in our own lives, we not only choose life, but we sacrifice our own convenience, plans, and resources that others may live. Not only do we – as individuals and as a community – accept the gift of new life when God gives it, but we eradicate injustice from our midst. Isaiah speaks about sheltering the oppressed and providing for the afflicted. Children in the womb are more oppressed in our day than any other segment of the population. The prophet’s words, applied in our day, call us to pro-life action. Isaiah also points out that this must begin with our own flesh and blood. “Do not turn your back on your own.” These are powerful words for our culture: parents, do not turn your back on the child you have conceived! Grandparents, do not turn your back on your daughter’s unborn child. Speak up for that life, and intervene to help both your daughter and her child! Some mistakenly think that the fact that the child in the womb is “their own” is precisely what gives them the “right to choose” to kill the child by abortion. But Isaiah’s words declare the opposite: when one is your own flesh and blood, your obligations to that person increase, and you are all the more obliged to do them good. Only when God’s people are actively and generously living as the “People of Life” can the words of today’s readings be fulfilled.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 4th 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. Zep 2:3; 3:12-13 1 Cor 1:26-31 Mt 5:1-12a It would be hard to find a set of readings more appropriate for comment on pro-life themes than those of this weekend. The Beatitudes (Gospel) are all about turning upside-down the way the world evaluates who is important and worthy of attention. The Lord and the Church point us to “those who count for nothing” (Second Reading) in the eyes of the world as those specially favored by God. When the Beatitudes speak of the “poor,” they do not only mean those who are materially deprived. Scripture refers to the “poor” as those who are completely dependent upon God, those who have no worldly help, those who have been marginalized. The unborn are the poorest of the poor. In the eyes of so many in the world, and in the eyes of the law, they “count for nothing”. They have little or no defense. They are the ones, above all, to whom the words of today’s responsorial psalm can be applied: “The Lord…secures justice for the oppressed; the Lord sets captives free…and raises up those that were bowed down.” The Lord does this, of course, through his people, who, as the Beatitudes say, “are sorrowing” (because they weep over the injustices of the world, like abortion); “hunger and thirst for justice” (to see the rights of all respected); “show mercy” (particularly to those in danger of death); are “peacemakers” (for, as Mother Teresa said, the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion); and “are insulted and persecuted for my sake” (as many pro-life activists are). The Lord secures justice, as the psalm says. Therefore, Zephaniah urges the Lord’s people, “seek justice,” and the Beatitudes declare that those who do so are blessed. To be like God we must do the works of God. Today let us call God’s people to active involvement in the pro-life cause.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 3rd 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 8:23 - 9:3 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17 Mt 4:12-23 or 4:12-17 When Jesus begins to preach, he starts by saying “Repent” (today’s Gospel). When John the Baptist began to preach, he said, “Repent” (see Mt. 3:1-2). When Peter began to preach on the day of Pentecost, he said, “Repent” (see Acts 2:38). The readings talk today about light breaking into darkness. Repentance, whose Greek words means a change of the mind, is enlightenment that what one may have thought was right is actually wrong, and what one thought led to happiness and fulfillment actually does not. The imperative to repent, furthermore, comes about precisely because light has broken into darkness. Jesus says in today’s Gospel passage that the reason, motive, and basis for repentance is that “the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” A kingdom has broken into the world; therefore, we see its light, are attracted by it, and begin to move in its direction. This means breaking from sin and from all that leads us away from the light. The great darkness of our day is the myth that some human lives, particularly those in the womb, just don’t count. To so many, these lives are not worthy of constitutional protection, not worthy of our public witness, and not even worthy of discussion. Often, this is because of the very phenomenon Paul describes in the second reading. “I belong to this political party.” “I belong to that organization.” “I follow this particular philosophy or theology.” Based on many of these false divisions among us, some try to justify “the right to choose” abortion. Yet Christ breaks through these false divisions. If all are one in Christ Jesus, it is because he has united all human life to himself and given us all an equal call to salvation and eternal life. Raising human life to the heights of heaven, he has raised men and women, born and unborn. There is only one human nature, and by the Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery, everyone who shares that human nature now also shares access to the very life of God. Because of that, we uphold the dignity of every person. This indeed is the light that has broken into our darkness, the Kingdom of God that ushers us to repentance.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 2nd 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 49:3, 5-6 1 Cor 1:1-3 Jn 1:29-34 “Called to be holy…a light to the nations…baptized as sons and daughters of God.” These themes, drawn from each of today’s readings, speak powerfully to us of our call as individuals and as a Church. Central to every vocation is the call to holiness. The name of the Second Vatican Council’s key document on the Church, “Lumen Gentium,” is taken from today’s first reading. It reminds us that we are a light, a beacon, to every people, primarily by the way we live, both in our private lives and in the way we conduct our activities and shape our policies as a Church and as a society. At the same time, in these days, we have three observances whose themes converge powerfully to show us in what direction those lives and policies must go, and in what direction that “light to the nations” is to be shed. This week our nation honors the dream of equal human rights articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He did not only advocate for the equality of African Americans. His advocacy in that realm was a corollary of his advocacy for the equality of every human being. His niece, Dr. Alveda King, is now a full time pro-life activist with Priests for Life and declares that the civil rights movement of today is the pro-life movement. On January 22, we also mark the anniversary of the most egregious violation of human rights through the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade, which permitted the killing of children in the womb. Observances, rallies and marches take place throughout the nation this month to call for the equal protection of those children. During these days, Christians also observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. John Paul II, in his encyclical “Ut Unum Sint,” called for ecumenical collaboration in the works of justice and human rights. Each of these can inform our preaching today. We pray that Christians will unite in effective service to all who are deprived of their rights, and bring about a Culture of Life, Justice, and Love.