THE FALSE ARGUMENT THAT IT'S HER BODY

 

Let's imagine a man owns a private plane and invites you (regardless of your gender) to fly with him. The plane is in the air, and while flying, the man claims his right to private property and, alleging that the plane is his, forces you to jump out. Obviously, you die, but the man defends himself by saying, "It's my plane, I had the right to ask you to get out."

 This is similar to when a woman says she owns her body and therefore has the right to dispose of, through murder, the child she is carrying.

That is, evidently, a crime, since what is in the mother's womb is not part of the mother's body but is a distinct human being, with its own DNA, from conception to death. 

Many governments consider themselves "progressive and developed" for allowing the murder of defenseless human beings. These governments and rulers should be reminded that they too will die someday. If they do not repent of their crimes, God will hold them accountable for all the innocent blood spilled as a result of selfishness and greed for money (since abortion is a big global business that makes millions by sacrificing those poor, defenseless human lives for hundreds of thousands). No one would want to be in their shoes on the day that divine justice demands an accounting of their actions.

Obviously, being pro-life does not mean that we should only limit ourselves to saying that this crime is wrong. Being pro-life means seeking help for mothers who cannot support their children, helping the poor and destitute, having compassion for the weakest and most vulnerable, and so many other things. However, none of this can be done if we do not defend life from conception to death. 

 Fr. Tomás Agustín Beroch (adaptation).

Note: Currently, this defense is more urgent in Mexico because the left-wing government intends to authorize this crime up to nine months of gestation!

THREE KINDS OF CATHOLICS, WHICH ONE ARE YOU?

“There are baptized Catholics (not properly Christian Catholics, but Christianized), who, although they are Catholics according to their baptismal certificate, live a life that is not at all Christian. They are the dry branches on the tree of the Church.*

There are Sunday Catholics, who are only Catholics on Sundays when they go to Mass, but the rest of the week they cease to be, and hardly anyone notices. They are the sickly shoots.

Thank God, there is a third group: the everyday Catholics, who not only go to church on Sundays, but are so every day of the week, and (know their faith) and try to always do God's will, pray for a while every morning and go to confession frequently. They are the ones who go to bed at night with this thought: Lord, have I lived today as I should? Are you pleased with me?"

Bishop Tihamér Tóth. Christ the King

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*Many of them do not know their faith, nor do they even know the doctrine and morals of the Church.

Saint John Bosco dixit

 

To keep in mind

 

NECESSARY MEDITATION

 

The first thing we can obtain by meditating on the cross and virtues of our Savior is a profound repentance for our sins, which caused His Passion and Death, a great desire to make amends for the offenses we have committed against Him, and a continuous effort to achieve the conversion of sinners.

The second thing we must do when meditating on the passion and cross of the Redeemer is to confidently ask for forgiveness for all our faults, convinced that He suffered atrocious torments to obtain our pardon. Remembering them, we should feel a true hatred and disgust towards our wickedness and a great love towards the One who suffered so much to save us.

The third thing must be to strive with all our will to remove from our heart and suppress in our life the unjust inclinations that lead us to sin.

The fourth thing we propose is to imitate the admirable virtues of Jesus, who, as St. Peter says, "suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow in His footsteps" (1 Peter 2:21).

— Fr. Lorenzo Scupoli, Spiritual Combat

SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGORIO DIXIT

 

SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO - BISHOP

The 2nd son of Count Giberto Borromeo and Margherita de’ Medici, sister of Pope Pius IV, Charles received the tonsure at age 12 and his doctorate in Civil and Canon Law at 21. Called to Rome by his uncle Pope Pius IV in 1560, he was made the administrator of the Papal States, Cardinal-Deacon, and Papal legate. At 22, though still only a Deacon, he was appointed Administrator of the Archdiocese of Milan. At the Pope’s command, the suspended Ecumenical Council of Trent was reassembled and, with Charles as the “‘very soul of the Council”, enacted specific clarifications of doctrine and Church reform. Charles, who had meanwhile been ordained priest, was now consecrated Archbishop of Milan but was detained in Rome for a while to revise the Roman Catechism, Missal and Breviary, as well as to reform Church music and the Roman Curia in accordance with the Council’s decrees.

In Milan, he instituted the greatest simplicity and economy, sold his valuable furniture and three-armed galleys, limited his food to one meal a day—just bread, water and some dried figs—and his sleep to four hours. 

Born at Rocca d’Arona, near Lago Maggiore on 2 October 1538, Charles Borromeo died on 3 November 1584 at Milan aged 46. Canonized by Pope Paul V on 1 November 1610, he is venerated as the patron of catechists and is invoked against pestilence.

Reflection: “He who desires to make any progress in the service of God must begin every day of his life with new ardor, must keep himself in the presence of God as much as possible, and must have no other view or end in all his actions but the divine honor” (St Charles Borromeo).