The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

"Nothing we do to defend the human person, no matter how small is every unfruitful or forgotten.  Our actions touch other lives and move other hearts in ways we can never fully understand in this world.  Don't ever underestimate the beauty and power of the witness you give in your pro-life work" 
~ Archbishop Charles Chaput

Mark your calendars for October 6 from 2-330PM on the SE corner of Central and Rock Road.  Blessed Sacrament is standing proud for life in the annual Life Chain.  If you need a little incentive, I have heard rumor that Magdalen thinks they will have more people there.  I hope that you can give some of your time to remind Wichitan that there is still a great tragedy occurring in our country.  Abortion is still legal, and more than 48 million people have been killed since the Roe v Wade decision.  If you are unable to attend this event, I encourage you to make time to pray for life.

From Evangelium Vitae (8): "At the root of every act of violence against one's neighbor, there is a concession to the 'thinking' of the evil one, the one who 'was a murderer from the beginning'".  As the Apostle reminds us, "for this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother" (1 Jn 3:11-12) Cain's killing of his brother at the very dawn of history is thus a sad witness of how evil spreads with amazing speed; man's revolt against God in the earthly paradise is followed by the deadly combat of man against men.  It is hard to proclaim the dignity of life from the womb to the tomb in the face of the culture of death, but it is necessary. We shake our heads and pray for the victims of yet another deadly shooting spree in our country, and wonder how things have gotten so bad.  It starts with the devaluing of life in the womb.  A couple hours in October may not seem like much in the face of such great evil, but we cannot know the impact of our witness and prayer.  If nothing else, it is a witness to our own children that life is sacred and we are willing to stand publicly for this truth.  Hope to see you there.

"I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.  And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tel other people not to kill one another? ... Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want.  That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion" ~ Mother Theresa, February 5, 1994, Washington DC

-Fr. Benjamin Green