The attack on marriage is really an attack on the human person, and his dignity, for the devil seeks to pervert our true purpose, to pervert God's holy design. For many of us, we cannot march in protests or write dozens of letters or call numerous times to urge legislators to vote for the Truth. But one thing we can all do is pray and fast. We have designated one day each week to fast for these intentions:

1. That marriage may be preserved, promoted, and understood as God's plan for creation.

2. For all marriages that they may reflect the love of the Trinity.

3. For broken marriages that Christ bring healing and conversion to the spouses' souls.

4. For those who are married, for the sanctification of their marriage and their spouse. For those who are single, for their future spouse and vocation.


Thursday, October 6, 2011

"My Kingdom is not of this Earth"

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JMJ


Another reminder today that are government is run by men.  While speaking at a fundraiser last night, President Obama bantered back and forth with an audience member, joking about the new HHS regulation that will force all private insurance companies to pay for contraception. (When the audience member shouted,"Darn right" in response to Obama's mentioning the regulation, the President shouted back,"Darn tooting") The religious exemption clause is so narrow, that I doubt any camel could fit through its eye.  In fact, the Bishops have said that not even Jesus would qualify.  We need to remember that contraception is one of, if not the, root cause of the breakdown of the family, and this promotion and coercion by the government can lead us down the road to the Chinese coercive culture of death.


So what should we do?  We can try to influence our legislatures by writing and calling, but we can also continue to live in life-affirming ways.  Like the early Christians, we live in a very pagan culture that muddles morality and seems blind to objective truths.  But the faith blossomed, not because of the preaching of the pastors, but because of the witness of the martyrs: in their deaths, but also in their lives.  Only those who were baptized could attend Holy Mass because of the dangers of persecution, so others must have come to the faith through the lives of their Christian neighbors.  We too can do this!  "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35)
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