Madonna and Child: Mary Mother of the Church
O, Mary, Mother of the Church and Mediatrix, we pray for strength and courage to stand for the truth of life. Help us to vanguish the culture of death that afflicts our society. We pray for our Bishops, shepherds and rulesrs of our souls that they may become courageous in the midst of worldy and godless opposition of those who do not believe in God. Just as you have revealed in Fatima, the pains and injuries caused by our disobedience, so help us now to pray even more and more, especially the Holy Rosary. Amen.
Holy Innocents, Ora Pro Nobis.
Forty-Years after the Papal Declaration on the importance of Human Life, today we are all the more challenged to stand for the very important teaching of the Church. We also remember the prophetic encyclical of the late and of happy memory Pope Paul VI who courageously declared a universal truth enshrined in NATURAL LAW and in the very LAW of GOD HIMSELF. The encyclical was rejected by many, both secularists and even people who call themselves Catholics and Christian. The Church indeed in her teaching power cannot relegate the matter of human reproduction in the hands of men. For God has established natural laws which has its roots on Divine Law. The use of contraceptives and abortion is sinful because it is contrary to natural law. Sexual union of men and women in marriage is ordained by God as an expression of love, not only of love but of participating in the creative work of God. Thus artificial means to control or hamper this process is contrary to the Law of God. This teaching is hard indeed and it seems that many cannot accept the teaching but it is the truth. Like the Pharisees who cannot accept the teaching of Christ on the Eucharist because of its seeming imposibility. So today godless humans, who do not respect the Law of God opposes this principle of life. Money and Greed have become their idols. Let us pray for the Bishops of the Philippines and all the faitful who are opposing their legislators who are sponsoring anti-life bills. Let us entrust this cruzade to the Mother of God, Mother of the Church. For a full text of the encyclical Humanae Vitae please visit the Vatican Web Site. God bless us as we commemorate this prophetic encyclical. "Be not afraid"....
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