Preaching on Abortion -- Who is Our Neighbor?

http://www.PriestsforLife.org Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, continues his reflections on preaching on abortion. Fr. Pavone starts out by saying that "one of the key points that we need to bring across in a prolife homily is that working to end abortion is in fact our business. It's the business of each and every one of our parishioners. And why is that so? Because were conveying a fundamental truth of our faith. That God has entrusted us all to the care of one another.

"So we ask our congregation 'Who is the child that is going to be killed tomorrow by abortion?'" continues Fr. Pavone, "is that child just someone else's problem, someone else's choice?' Or is that our brother, our sister? If abortion in fact, is none of our business then that proves too much, because then neither are the victims of earthquakes in Haiti, or Tsunamis' in Asia. And yet when those disasters happen we pray and we care for those people, and we send them as much assistance as we can, even though we have never seen their faces and do not know their names."

"And the reason for this," Fr. Pavone explains, "is simple. For the Christian, there is no such thing as a stranger. Abortion is our business. Stopping someone else from getting an abortion is our business for the very same reason that feeding the poor is our business or helping those dying of aids, or stopping violent crime, or terrorism throughout the world. Let's help our people see that all of this comes together under one very powerful truth. And it's a truth we express in every Mass when we say 'Our Father'. He is our father in the sense of spiritual adoption as sons and daughters of God but also in the basic sense of creation. We are all brothers and sisters, and that's why we help the poor, tend to the sick, and save the unborn."

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