The campaign days are winding down and soon Election Day will be upon us. We say it every election year, but this year there really is a lot at stake, especially when it comes to protecting innocent human life. And in American politics there is no issue of greater importance – not the war, not the economy, not gas prices, the environment, etc… For 35 years an entire class of human beings has been denied their most fundamental right to life. Over 49 million of these children have been killed – dismembered, burned alive, brains sucked out, skulls crushed and many times delivered alive and left on shelves to die – under the full protection of the law.
“Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.”(Christifideles laici, 38)
To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom. (Evangelium Vitae, 20)
Let’s pray for our Nation this week, for an end to abortion, for leaders that will uphold and protect the dignity and rights of all human life from conception until natural death. Fr. Corapi suggests a Novena and Rosary to Our Lady of Victory between now and Election Day.
“Most merciful Jesus, I beseech You through the intercession of Your dearest Mother who nurtured You from childhood, bless my native land. I beg You, Jesus, look not on our sins, but on the tears of little children, on the hunger and cold they suffer. Jesus, for the sake of these innocent ones, grant me the grace that I am asking of You for my country.” (Diary of St. Faustina, n. 286)
May the most just, the most lovable, and the most high Will of God be done, be fulfilled, be praised and exalted in all things forever. Amen!
See:
Sacrifices for Life