Here are a few pictures of the display I set up in our church this weekend. They will be up all through the month of October which is Respect Life Month:
Those beautiful fetal development posters are from Heritage House. Our diocese gave them to all the parishes.
God has created us to choose life; God the Son Incarnate has won the victory of life for us, the victory over sin and everlasting death (cf. Dt 30:19; Jn 10:10). We, therefore, must never give up in the struggle to advance a culture founded on the choice of life, which God has written upon our hearts, and the victory of life, which Christ has won in our human nature.
~ Archbishop Raymond Burke
*sigh* It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all of the attacks on the sanctity of human life these days – contraception, abortion, eugenic abortion, assisted suicide, destroying embryos for scientific research, and who would have ever thought we’d be seriously talking about CLONING?!
Heavenly Father,
the beauty and dignity of human life
was the crowning of your creation.
You further ennobled that life
when your Son became one with us in his incarnation.
Help us to realize the sacredness of human life
and to respect it from the moment of conception
until the last moment at death.
Give us courage to speak with truth
and love and with conviction in defense of life.
Help us to extend the gentle hand of mercy and forgiveness
to those who do not reverence your gift of life.
To all, grant pardon for the times we have failed
to be grateful for your precious gift of life
or to respect it in others.
We ask this in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.