January 22 - Homily for Today

+ Today in the United States we celebrate a Mass for various needs dedicated to the legal protection of the unborn. For 43 years now in our country there has been a festering of illogic and misguided reasoning regarding the reality and existence of life itself – in the womb.

Since all law is based on the supernatural law that is already written in each and every human heart – civil law only need to go there to read what is written on the page of justice and mercy regarding the most vulnerable of all in our midst: the unborn human being, the unborn baby, at any stage of its pre-birth growth.

Our first reading today tells us that each human being was thought of by God, before he even created the world, so much did he love us; and then he made us according to the circumstances of his will, being ideally that of the loving embrace of a mother and a father. Each of us, like Jeremiah is called to do something to build a better world here and hereafter – under God’s impulse and guidance. Each of us is meant to be given every chance and opportunity to do just that.

No one has the right to interfere in any way with the growth and development of the human person from the time of its conception to the time of natural death. For at that time and throughout the pregnancy of the mother it is a full, true and authentic human being. When the Blessed Mother of God visited her cousin Elizabeth both babies in the womb leaped for joy at the mere physical presence of the other. Yes, the unborn are fully intact and bonafide human persons with their own personalities, their own characteristic and their own mission to fulfill.

To be for life then, is to be for God; to be for irrational choice, is to be for the devil – plain and simple. He is the Father of Lies, and he will make his false pretenses as attractive and seductively reasonable as ever.

We must resist. On behalf of the unborn who cannot defend themselves, we must fight for them, so the sword or the surgical scalpel cannot destroy them, so that they can be upheld by the God in whom they trust – in their naturally innocent way – because at this stage of their lives – pre-birth - they behold the very face of God.

There is no reasoning or logic on the face of the earth that can replace the truth about any issue or debate – national or otherwise – let the truth prevail in this case, let the truth prevail!

In God (my Father) I trust; I shall not fear, he will take care of me!