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April 6th FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
For a growing appreciation of the gift of life
in the members of our families:
for little children, aging parents,
and all who have been made
in the image and likeness of God;
We pray to the Lord:
April 13th PALM SUNDAY
For all legislators,
that their respect for
the most defenseless of their constituents
might make them strong proponents
of the Gospel of Life;
We pray to the Lord:
April 20th EASTER SUNDAY
That on this Easter day
we might rejoice in the gift of risen life
which we have received
through the glorious resurrection
of Christ Jesus, our Lord;
We pray to the Lord:
April 27th SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
For all who have been wounded by sins
against the Gospel of life,
and especially for the victims of abortion:
that they might know the fullness
of the divine mercy of the Risen Christ;
We pray to the Lord
"Grant, O Mother, that we too may keep watch in the silence of the night, believing and hoping in the Lord's word. Thus shall we meet, in the fullness of light and life, Christ, the first-fruits of the risen, who reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. Alleluia!—Pope John Paul II, Easter Vigil, 2002.
Bulletin Briefs
We cannot attain a relationship with Him without humbling ourselves and surrendering to Him. By creating human life through cloning we have done just the opposite in the grossest imaginable outworking of human pride and the greatest conceivable affront to God.
—David Limbaugh, Soul of the issue, The Washington Times, January 3, 2003.
Respect life itself and individual lives: everything starts here, for the most fundamental of human rights is certainly the right to life. Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! When all moral criteria are removed, scientific research involving the sources of life becomes a denial of the being and the dignity of the person.
—John Paul II, State of the World, address to the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to the Vatican, January 13, 2003.
To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering.
—Viktor E. Frankl, M.D., survivor of four Nazi concentration camps.
Life continues in a lot of places, and life is a magical thing.
—Comment of space shuttle Columbia Astronaut Laurel Salton Clark, while conducting an experiment in orbit and watching "new life emerge from a tiny cocoon, "as quoted by President George W. Bush, at the February 4, 2003 Memorial Service.
The social doctrine of the Church is not an intrusion into the government of individual countries. It is a question of the lay Catholic's duty to be morally coherent, found within one's conscience, which is one and indivisible. There cannot be two parallel lives in their existence: on the one hand, the so-called 'spiritual life', with its values and demands; and on the other, the so-called 'secular' life, that is, life in a family, at work, in social responsibilities, in the responsibilities of public life and in culture.
—Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life, November 24, 2002.