Preaching on abortion, Pentecost, Year C, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, reflects on the Sunday readings for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 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.
Readings:
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 or Rom 8:8-17
Jn 20:19-23 or 14:15-16, 23b-26
Reflections:
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.
-
29:06
End Abortion TV
5 months agoIt is Going To Be a Crazy Eleven Months
4292 -
17:32
JoBlo Originals
15 hours agoWhat Happened to DANNY GLOVER?
10.3K7 -
22:14
MYLUNCHBREAK CHANNEL PAGE
11 hours agoAngels Helped Build the Old World?
13.9K21 -
4:16
Chris Jericho
8 hours agoTalk Is Jericho Highlight: Joel McHale x Chevy Chase & Community
12.2K1 -
2:43:34
a12cat34dog
4 hours agoROCKIN' OUT IN THE RUMBLE CREATOR HOUSE
7.4K5 -
4:27:24
Right Side Broadcasting Network
11 days agoLIVE REPLAY: President Trump Addresses Libertarian National Convention in D.C. - 5/25/24
309K478 -
2:29:01
SLS - Street League Skateboarding
10 days agoSLS APEX 02: Men's and Women’s Finals
397K25 -
3:14:26
Pepkilla
10 hours agoWarzone From The Rumble Creator House ~
33.3K24 -
2:50:58
FusedAegisTV
15 hours ago34 Days to Dawntrail🕒| FFXIV Online Endwalker 6.0 MSQ @ RUMBLE CREATOR HOUSE!!!
61.1K9 -
2:54:37
SilverFox
14 hours ago🔴LIVE - WOLVERINE vs MALENIA at the RUMBLE CREATOR HOUSE!
73.4K8