Today we have a guest blogger, Arlene B. Muller. Arlene B. Muller (Arlene Clare Muller, OSF) is a lector and EM at St. Pancras parish, a singer in the choir at St. Margaret's parish, a professed Secular Franciscan at St. Adalbert's Secular Franciscan fraternity & an itinerant speech/language therapist working with preschool children with delayed language development. She enjoys writing and music and sharing Christian and pro-life posts on FACEBOOK.
As Christians, Catholics & Franciscans we are called to live the Gospel of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST and to promote the Gospel of Life. Every human being from the moment of conception through natural death is a unique creation of our Creator God, created in His image, and someone for whom the Son of God became Incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary, conceived by the Holy Spirit. Every human being from conception through natural death is a person for whom JESUS CHRIST was born, lived a sinless life of preaching, teaching and healing, and for whom He suffered and died on the Cross to be our Savior, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and gave the Holy Spirit. Therefore, as Christians, as Catholics & as Franciscans we are called to respect and seek to protect the sanctity of all human life from conception through natural death.
In Pope Francis' encyclical LAUDATO SI, which was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi's CANTICLE OF THE CREATURES, after writing about our obligation to be good stewards of God's beautiful Creation, Pope Francis ended by focusing on the importance of caring not only for the rest of Creation but especially for human life, highlighting the sanctity of human life and the protection of the lives of the unborn.
In contrast to the political climate of America in our time, there is really no contradiction between caring for the poor and protecting the lives of the unborn, the infants, the elderly, the sick, and people with disabilities. St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who both cared passionately about and devoted a good portion of her life to taking care of "the poorest of the poor", at the same time cared passionately about ending abortion, which she considered to be the greatest enemy of world peace.
In subsequent articles we will focus on 4 ways in which we need to fight abortion, using the acronym, P. L. E. A, our plea to make abortion not only illegal but especially to make abortion UNTHINKABLE:
P = PRAYER
L = LEGAL/LOBBY/LEGISLATION
E = EDUCATE & EVANGELIZE
A = ADVOCATE (for women in crisis pregnancies).
Pax et Bonum,
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