Thursday, June 28, 2012

Their Lives Are Not “Nothing.”

Guardian Angel escorts a soul to Heaven
The human race now claims authority to decide who lives and who dies. Some actual human beings are not “human” enough to live. To get rid of them has something “noble” about it, like saving the race from itself. Yet I want to look at the aborted from another angle. We sometimes say of martyrs that they died for a noble cause. We do not recognize that “the aborted” represent a significant part of the human race, that part which is killed by our choice not to have them among us. But who are they? Both the aborted and those who manage to be born have the same ultimate origin. Each human life begins in conception. 
The human soul does not cause itself to exist. The origin of each human life is ultimately in the Godhead. Each is an image of God intended for eternal life. This includes each aborted child no matter at what stage its demise was decreed by another not allowing him to continue to exist in this world. But in that sense, it is too late. It already exists. The total number of human beings who have existed – perhaps some hundred billion thus far on this planet – includes the aborted. 
It also includes those who aborted them directly or indirectly. Those who kill the aborted are generally not called to judgment in the courts of this world. But the world is created in ultimate justice. The aborted exist for eternal life, but also to identify who killed them. The aborted remain members of the human race with all the dead. Without being asked, they are killed. Their lives are not “nothing.”  
Link (here) to the Catholic Thing to read the full article by Georgetown professor Fr. James Schall, S.J.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eric, Thank you for posting this profound article.

Maria said...

Vespers June 28,2012
Prayers and Intercessions

The light shines out in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it. Let us thank our Lord for bringing his light to our lives.

– Lord Jesus Christ, you are our light.

Word of God, you have brought the light of eternity to the darkened world: may it open the minds and hearts of all the children of the Church.

– Lord Jesus Christ, you are our light.

Show your care for all who dedicate their lives to the service of others: may your grace inspire their actions and sustain them to the end.

– Lord Jesus Christ, you are our light.

Lord, you healed the paralytic and forgave him his sins: pardon all our guilt, and heal the wounds of our sins.

– Lord Jesus Christ, you are our light.

Men follow the light to new knowledge and discovery: may they use your gifts to serve the whole human family, and so give glory to you.

– Lord Jesus Christ, you are our light.

Lead the dead from darkness into your own wonderful light;in your mercy show them the radiance of your glory.

– Lord Jesus Christ, you are our light.

Lord, we thank you for the bright light that are Fr. Schall and Joseph...

Anonymous said...

40 years later and I still grieve. Every day I grieve the loss that was forced upon me at age 16. Everyday I pray to God in Heaven that one day I can be with my baby.
Broken hearted still...
In love with the father still..

Anonymous said...

Re-criminalization is not the answer.

C140 said...

Re-criminalization is the answer.