Daily Scripture Reading and Reflection - Seek What Matters To God - Oct. 23, 2023
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Daily Scripture Reading and Reflection - Take Care Of Your Colleagues In Ministry - Oct. 18, 2023
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Praying For America - Praying about Israel, The US House and The Election - Oct. 17, 2023
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Daily Scripture Reading and Reflection - They Exchange God's Truth For Lies - Oct. 17, 2023
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Learn how to Stop the Pro-Abortion State Constitutional Amendment
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Daily Scripture Reading and Reflection - Chief of Sinners - Oct. 16, 2023
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My Daily Diary covering October 8th through 10th
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It's War!! Another Huge Episode of Prolife Primetime News
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Let's Pray For Israel and For President Trump
Let's Pray For Israel and For President Trump
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Daily Scripture Reading and Reflection - A Firewall Against Sin - Oct. 13, 2023
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Hear the Testimony of a Former Director of 3 Planned Parenthood Locations - Oct. 12, 2023
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What The Democrat Party Wants! Praying for America - Oct. 12, 2023
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Scripture Reading and Reflection - Why God Answers Prayer - Oct. 12, 2023
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Preaching on abortion, 33rd Sunday, Year A, Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone of Priests for Life
Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 33rd 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.
Mal 3:19-20a
2 Thes 3:7-12
Lk 21:5-19
The liturgical readings in these days are pointing us toward the end of time, and the culmination of salvation history. It is good for the preacher to point out that the themes about the second coming, in these final Sundays of the liturgical year, will blend smoothly with the first part of Advent, when the theme is likewise the second coming of the Lord.
The readings of today convey conflict on many levels - within oneself, in families and communities, between Church and state, between nations, and in the heavens. Although God is almighty, he allows good and evil to conflict with each other, and allows his people to choose sides. Once we choose, we have to fight for what we have chosen, and even when we are on God's side, it will not be easy. There is always a price to pay for doing what is right, because evil is always fighting against the good.
This is the overall context in which the Church's defense of human life in our day needs to be understood, and in which our own acknowledgement of the sanctity of life needs to be understood. It is never enough just to be content with acknowledging to others the beauty of life and presenting that beauty. Some, in doing this, consider themselves exempt from the full-scale war that has been launched against the sanctity of life in our day.
John Paul II's encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" (The Gospel of Life) makes it clear that nobody is exempt from this war. Some pay a higher price than others for their conscientious objection to the forces of death - for example, medical professionals who refuse to take part in actions that take or endanger the very lives they are committed to serve. Our suffering may, on the other hand, simply be the ridicule or misunderstanding of family, friends, or fellow Christians when we take a strong stand against abortion.
We have to be ready to fight, both as individuals and as a Church community. We have to be fearless in the face of laws and public policies which contradict the Gospel of Life, and challenge those laws. In the end, "not a hair on your head will be destroyed."
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More Special Honorees Announced for National Prayer Service
More Special Honorees Announced for National Prayer Service
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Preaching on abortion, 32nd Sunday, Year A, Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone of Priests for Life
Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 32nd 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 6:12-16
1 Thes 4:13-18 or 4:13-14
Mt 25:1-13
The second reading today reminds us that “Christ died and rose again.” This, of course, is the basis for the pro-life efforts of the Church. We stand with life and proclaim life precisely because we stand with and proclaim Christ, who conquered the power of death. His resurrection does not simply conquer his death. It conquers ours, because it overthrows the entire kingdom of death. Therefore, in a radical sense, the power of abortion has already been defeated in Christ. We, the People of Life, have the task of announcing that victory, celebrating it, and serving it. We must apply it to every sector of society. This work is to be done with confidence, because victory is our starting point. In the pro-life cause, we are not just working for victory; we are working from victory.
The lesson of vigilance that comes from the Gospel can be applied to the constant vigilance that we as individuals and as a nation must keep over the sacredness of life, not allowing anything into our attitudes, actions, laws, or public policies that degrades or denies the right to life.
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Preaching on abortion, 31st Sunday, Year A, Pro-Life Leader Frank Pavone of Priests for Life
Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 31st 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.
Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10
1 Thes 2:7b-9, 13
Mt 23:1-12
The first reading from Malachi asks, “Have we not all one Father? Has not the one God created us?” This theme is echoed in the Gospel’s teaching, “Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven.”
In a culture of death, the worldview is that we are responsible only for those for whom we choose to be responsible, and that this choice is a purely individual, private matter. Such a culture would have us believe that someone’s decision to abort a child is “none of our business.”
But if we all have one Father, then that makes us brothers and sisters, and means that our lives are entrusted to one another’s care. We are responsible for each other before we choose to be. The abortions that others have are our business, because those children – as well as their parents -- are also entrusted to our care, in the one family of God. Ours is the business of love, to care as much as we can for all our brothers and sisters.
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Daily Scripture Reading and Reflection - Mary Chooses the Better Partner - Oct. 10, 2023
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Daily Scripture Reading and Reflection - What Will Happen to the Children? Oct. 9, 2023
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