Pro-Life Sunday

Amidst our celebration of Pro-Life Sunday, a distinct voice too loud to be silenced from our depths may be heard asking each of us: where is your brother?

That brother may be the unborn, the elderly, the infirm and all whose lives are threatened. Dodging our responsibility from them echoes Cain’s response: Am I my brother’s keeper?

God sees both we do and what we cannot do; even those times that we refuse to help a brother when we are supposed to help to save a life or lives of another.

St. John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae, makes a most urgent appeal to all members of the Church, the people of life and for life: “that together we may offer this world of ours new signs of hope, and work to ensure that justice and solidarity will increase and that a new culture of human life will be affirmed for the building of an authentic civilization of truth and love” (EV, 6).

Pro-Life Sunday makes us conscious of the dignity of the human person, the gift in every person’s life. These are urgent times. We need to understand this truth in accord with our beliefs, to value it and become engaged with efforts to support such precious and sacred gift in every person’s life. Let us therefore make a new culture that welcomes, respects, and protects the sacredness of human life.