Respect life Sunday
Today our Catholic Church invites us to celebrate life and respect it with all possible ways. Life is a gift that is given to us all. When god created living things, he was not satisfied fully with them and at last as culmination of all life, he created human beings with his own image and likeness. Anyone who destroys life is an enemy of life and of all living beings.
Once a priest asked his congregation, “is there anyone here who does not have any enemy?” and no body answered and then again he said, “if you do not have any enemy, please raise your hand and I am going to let you pick three hymns for today’s celebration” and then an eighty-year old lady raised her hand. The priest invited her to the front and introduced to the congregation saying , “even Jesus had enemies and we are happy that you do not have any enemy and please tell us how. The lady proudly looked at the crowd and said, because I outlived all my stupid enemies. Then the priest looked at her and said, “do you want to pick three hymns today?” she was so happy and said, “yes, I will and then she looked at the congregation and said, “him..him..and him.”
Now you know why only the choir is allowed to choose the hymns.
Life is sacred and it should be protected from conception to natural death. Since it is a gift of god, no one has the right to take anyone’s life away for any reason. We who come to church and we who practice our faith know the important of life and living.
Information is knowledge and today we have so much information about life and its value. I have met mothers and fathers who said that they did not give much thought about anti-abortion those days and today we often hear about pro life. There are so many religious and non-religious movements that promote life and give us enough information to know the value of protecting life. No one can say that he or she does not know about pro-life and the god-given gift of life.
The bible contains god’s words and in the bible, god says that he knows us before we were born and he called us when we were in our mother’s womb. Once the children asked his parents, “mom, there is a commandment that says honour your father and mother and is there any commandment for siblings.
Their mother looked at them and said, “yes of course, “thou shalt not kill”
When we have faith in God our father through his son Jesus, then it is our duty to protect life. Faith in god opens our eyes wider to see the goodness in everything. It helps to differentiate things. Once a lady, every time came out of her house used to say, “praise the Lord, bless the Lord” and the next door neighbour who did not believe in god used to scream, “there is no god” and it went on and on. And one day, the lady stood at the entrance of the house and prayed aloud to god and said, “god… please bring me some grocery for tomorrow”
And the next day, she saw a big bag of grocery waiting at the door and she thanked god saying, ‘ thank you god for the grocery” and the neighbour who was hiding himself behind the bush came out and said, “I brought the grocery for you and there is no God” and this time she prayed to god saying, “god, thank you very much for the grocery and thank you very much for making the devil pay for it’
Even in today’s gospel, we heard Jesus saying that there will always people against life and living and they will constantly try to destroy and encourage others to do so. And Jesus says that the kingdom of god will be taken away from those people and be given to those who produce much fruit and as we celebrate respect life Sunday, let us actively participate to protect life and say no to abortion and all other ways that destroy life. Amen.
Once a priest asked his congregation, “is there anyone here who does not have any enemy?” and no body answered and then again he said, “if you do not have any enemy, please raise your hand and I am going to let you pick three hymns for today’s celebration” and then an eighty-year old lady raised her hand. The priest invited her to the front and introduced to the congregation saying , “even Jesus had enemies and we are happy that you do not have any enemy and please tell us how. The lady proudly looked at the crowd and said, because I outlived all my stupid enemies. Then the priest looked at her and said, “do you want to pick three hymns today?” she was so happy and said, “yes, I will and then she looked at the congregation and said, “him..him..and him.”
Now you know why only the choir is allowed to choose the hymns.
Life is sacred and it should be protected from conception to natural death. Since it is a gift of god, no one has the right to take anyone’s life away for any reason. We who come to church and we who practice our faith know the important of life and living.
Information is knowledge and today we have so much information about life and its value. I have met mothers and fathers who said that they did not give much thought about anti-abortion those days and today we often hear about pro life. There are so many religious and non-religious movements that promote life and give us enough information to know the value of protecting life. No one can say that he or she does not know about pro-life and the god-given gift of life.
The bible contains god’s words and in the bible, god says that he knows us before we were born and he called us when we were in our mother’s womb. Once the children asked his parents, “mom, there is a commandment that says honour your father and mother and is there any commandment for siblings.
Their mother looked at them and said, “yes of course, “thou shalt not kill”
When we have faith in God our father through his son Jesus, then it is our duty to protect life. Faith in god opens our eyes wider to see the goodness in everything. It helps to differentiate things. Once a lady, every time came out of her house used to say, “praise the Lord, bless the Lord” and the next door neighbour who did not believe in god used to scream, “there is no god” and it went on and on. And one day, the lady stood at the entrance of the house and prayed aloud to god and said, “god… please bring me some grocery for tomorrow”
And the next day, she saw a big bag of grocery waiting at the door and she thanked god saying, ‘ thank you god for the grocery” and the neighbour who was hiding himself behind the bush came out and said, “I brought the grocery for you and there is no God” and this time she prayed to god saying, “god, thank you very much for the grocery and thank you very much for making the devil pay for it’
Even in today’s gospel, we heard Jesus saying that there will always people against life and living and they will constantly try to destroy and encourage others to do so. And Jesus says that the kingdom of god will be taken away from those people and be given to those who produce much fruit and as we celebrate respect life Sunday, let us actively participate to protect life and say no to abortion and all other ways that destroy life. Amen.
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