One of our assistant pastors gave a very moving sermon this morning about the sacrifice the mothers made when the Holy Innocents were slaughtered in essence to insure Jesus lived. Father said that the death of these babies was, in a way, an offering to the beginning of our Christian faith. Father said the families lost their future and happiness because of this. Even though we can assume that God took these innocent babies into his Heavenly arms, the earthly arms of the bereaved parents ached and future generations were changed for these families.
During the election, this same pastor was a supporter of the re-elected president. I had to wonder how he could deliver such a remarkable sermon and not see the contradiction in his heart? After Mass, I complimented him on his sermon and remarked that 'holy innocents' were still being murdered today. He looked very startled and I added, 'through abortion'. He quickly agreed but said things were getting better.
Yes, there have been some changes in the mind set of people over abortion. Some clinics have closed. Even some abortion doctors and advocates have changed their mind on the procedure. These are great changes in the babies that will not die through these hands but the large picture is still too huge for the safety of the unborn. We had a chance, with a change of admininistrtion to initiate some changes but 50% of the Catholic vote decided to overlook this possibility.
Father isn't the only one of the 50% in our parish, unfortunately. One young man offered to debate anyone on the issue of re-electing the incumbant and voting in a more kindly administration when it came to the unborn. Well, we know how that turned out.
History repeats itself . . . Moses survived to take his place in Biblical history. Jesus survived to bring us Salvation. Who among the millions of unborn murdered each year had the potential from change for us? Have we already and will be be throwing away that person, too?
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