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Chair of Unity Octave Prayer
The Sacred Scriptures tell us that God created the
entire physical universe. Out of nothing, He made the heaven and the
earth, the birds, the beasts, and the fish. All of these were
material creations.
But after He created these things, He created another
that was different from all the others. He created a being that was
material, but, just like the angels, possessed a purely spiritual
soul—a soul capable of a direct relationship with God. They
were formed, as scripture says, “in God's image and
likeness.... to the image of God he created him: male and female he
created them.”
After creating His first people, God gave Adam and Eve
dominion over all of the rest of material creation. And He sent them
forth to “be fruitful and multiply,” and to people the
entire earth.
Now, it is important to understand that when God gave
human beings the power to reproduce themselves, He gave them much
more than He gave to His purely material creatures. Animals
reproduce themselves, to be sure—but they don't do anything
more than reproduce their physical form—they don't do anything
like humans do as they create (or procreate) a spiritual and immortal
soul. When a human child in conceived, that is exactly what happens;
his parents cooperate with God Himself to form another citizen of
God's eternal kingdom.
It doesn't take a great deal of wisdom to know that God
intended children to be the product of marital love. This is clear
form biology, from Sacred Scripture, and the nearly universal
tradition of the human race. It is also as nearly obvious that the
family unit is the environment in which those children must be
raised, and taught the ways of God and man.
The natural law informs us that the family must be
esteemed and protected from destructive influence. Society must
resist the temptation to allow families to be pulled apart and
scrambled through easy divorce for trivial reasons.
The natural law also tells us that it is sinful and
hurtful to the dignity of human life to control procreation through
artificial means: either to produce children, or to ensure against
their conception. It is sinful to selectively breed them, or to
conceive them artificially, or to bear them for sale in the manner of
the “surrogate” mother. This last notion, of having
someone else bear your children is clearly destructive of stable
family life. And selective breeding often involves the artificial
conception of many children, and the murder of all but the “best.”
Certainly, the wholesale destruction of unwanted
children, through the crime of abortion, is murder that cries out to
heaven for vengeance. In this country alone, well over a million,
are brutally killed each year. And over the thirty-eight years of
legal abortion in American, the legal line has blurred somewhat to
allow the starvation and dehydration of even those children who are
born, but are found “unfit.”
Of course, no one should be surprised to find the same
“logic” applied to the elderly, so that we don't have to
put up with the inconvenience of having to deal with “worn out”
people.
Yesterday was the 38th anniversary of the infamous Roe
vs. Wade decision of the Supreme Court. Only God knows the exact
number of murders that Court authorized, but most estimates put it
well over 50,000,000 this year. That's more than all the victims of
Hitler, and Stalin, and Ghengis Khan, and every other mass murderer
you can name, put together. That's way more than twice the
population of Florida. Or, to put another way, its about the same as
wiping out Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and
Mississippi!
It should be obvious that all of these form of
disrespect for life must be reversed, if we are to escape God's wrath
and survive as a nation. Reversing it will take some positive action
on our part:
We must respect life in our own lives. We can't expect
others to do what we are unwilling to do ourselves. We must not
treat sexual matters as a form of recreation. We must be sure that
our children understand the purpose of marriage and the serious
nature of the marital commitment.
While we should not encourage people to have children
outside of marriage, we must be careful never to pressure an unwed
mother to kill her baby—not by social pressure, not by economic
pressure. We must be ready to help with moral and economic support.
Political action is a necessity. Governmental leaders
must understand that they will be thrown out of office if they fail
to protect the innocent. This must become issue number one in any
election—nothing else matters if you are dead. We have failed
miserably in this, and since the time of Roe vs. Wade we have seen
the introduction of even more destructive policies, allowing murdered
children to be used for “scientific” research—one
is reminded of Nazis.
Finally, we must pray. Prayer for the right to life
should be part of our daily routine. Attend the Masses we offer for
the right to life every month—sometimes more often. Pray that
our Lord and his Blessed Mother will have mercy on the innocents, and
that they will have mercy on our blood-thirsty society.
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