GET A LIFE!
“Get a life!” An angry shout from a passing care reached our ears. And again, a little later, came the same cry from another car: “Get a life!”
Irony of ironies.
For this is exactly what we hope to do: get a life (saved).
Now “Get a life!” is certainly not the worst thing that someone hears as they pray in front of a Planned Parenthood or abortion mill. Much worse remarks are flung at us. Yet I am struck by this irony. Can it be that they do not realize that these places deal in death? Some have said we are ‘blocking freedom’. Freedom from what? Is freedom the same as liberty? Can we have liberty without life? Isn’t life the first right of an American? Is there a difference between freedom and license? Does anyone know this?
“It’s not your body”, is hollered at us. No, it is not. Nor is it the body of the woman that is being sacrificed on the altar of abortion. It is not her body either. She may well, in most cases, have had a choice prior to this moment. But now there should be no “choice” which is a word perverted to mean abortion.
“Reproductive Health” is the innocuous term used to cover up the abomination of abortion. Some even claim a religious veil on this intrinsic evil with some clergy and others promoting the decimation of peoples. Or there are the countless others who remain silent or “neutral” in the face of the greatest evil of our age. They might say, “I am personally opposed, but…” ; they look the other way while millions of unborn children die.
Get a life! Yes, I have a life. But the child dismembered in the abortion clinic will not “get a life”. The mother will go on doing whatever she is doing but the little soul is returned to God before drawing breath. And the mother’s soul dies. Get a life! The life of God in the souls of those who promote, provide, and procure abortion dies. For them we pray that reconciliation and repentance be found.
Get a life! God is the Author of life. It is the devil who deals in death. Demonic is the institution that deals death. The devil, that “liar and the father of lies…a murderer from the beginning” as Jesus states in the 8th chapter of the Gospel of St. John, is the one behind “reproductive choice”. Ultimately it must be realized that “we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness” (Eph 6:12). This is a spiritual battle. We must call on our spiritual weapons to fight it. This combat is one done on our knees. The legal system will not bring about the changes needed in hearts and souls. We beg the Author of Life for the graces needed to touch hearts and souls to embrace life, to “get a life”.
Sr. Joseph-Mary Maximilian FTI
“It’s my body” and all those other pro-abortion lies have been put to bed permenately when they all elected Obama who argued on the Illinois Senate floor for slaughtering a fully born, completely separated infant based – not upon when its life began or whose body it was or was not in, but upon the Harvard legal garbledygook of “intent.” Legal nonsense to give his supreme court justices less embarassment say than ficticious things like finding mysterious “emanations from penumbras”
All that mattered to Obama and those who voted for him, content with his positions on abortion, was a woman’s intent to abort. He conveniently failed to answer the simple question with his legal cleverness -how long after the baby is born and separated from it’s mother does this intent thing last; 1 day, a week, a year, a decade…?
The sad part of all this is the scandal of 2/3 of the Catholic Bishops in the USA remaining mute when the rest of the flock of shepards ran salivating to Notre Dame eger to praise and honor the man behind this evil -Obama.
Our bishop is indeed pro-life and has spoken on the issue and there is an archdiocesan office for Respect Life. In October all the priests of the diocese have been directed by the Archbishop to speak on pro-life issues.
Yet the bishop is neutral on the Personhood Amendment that will be on the ballot and that is rather a shame. It is said it will not stand up in court. No surprise; what does? The will of the people can always be overturned by the will of one judge anyway. But the thing that is important is that minds and hearts may be converted to a pro-life view. We will keep bringing back this petition and keep it before the people. The last time it came up for vote 618,000 of my fellow statesmen voted for it. Now for a million, and then two million and then maybe mothers will decide that they cannot take the life of the person growing within them.