By Eileen Love
This time of year, Respect Life Committees are hard at work making their message known.
No issue is more crucial than protecting innocent life. While all life is sacred and deserving of protection - surely, we are called to remember the elderly, the terminally ill, those incarcerated and in need of someone to minister to them - the life of the innocent unborn – the tiny voiceless creatures whose very lives depend on us are in most urgent need of protection. The basic right to life is the bedrock fundamental truth on which all the other truths will stand.
In our area, one Catholic parish places hundreds of tiny pink and blue flags (such as landscapers might use) on the hillside adjacent to the church. It is an arresting sight, reminding people of the ongoing horror of abortion and affirming that Christ’s healing love and reconciliation await all those affected by this sorrow.
In Denver we will host our Respect Life Conference on Saturday, October 24 at Christ the King Parish. If you can squeeze it into your schedule, do so! The theme is The Family: Hope for the Future- In addition to Mass being celebrated by Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Conley, we will have Keynote speaker Helen Alvare, pro-life feminist and good friend of ENDOW to give a global perspective on the family.
And how’s this for a God-moment? Praying the rosary in front of the local Planned Parenthood building, two women nodded to each other, both thinking the other looked familiar, but unable to place her. After an hour of prayer, and occasional snippets of conversation as they watched patrons come and go from that sad imposing structure in a fenced off area in a broken-down neighborhood, one of the women suddenly had a light bulb go on. “Wait a minute! Don’t you work at St. Luke’s Hospital?!” “Yes”, answered the other woman. “I’m a labor and delivery nurse. My name is Delaine.” The women stared at each other and slowly, a moment of joy crept up on them.
Said the first woman, “You delivered my baby seven years ago!”
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