Care for Life: It’s Worth It
Some years ago, when celebrating Mass in honour of St
Raymond Nonnatus, the Patron Saint of expectant mothers and midwives, Pope
Francis spoke simply and beautifully about what promoting a culture of life
really means:
‘Jesus teaches us to care for life because it is the image
of God, who is absolute life. We cannot announce anything else but life, and
from the beginning to the end.
All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness,
warmth … to give life is to open the heart, and to care for life is to expend
one’s self in tenderness and warmth for others, to have concern in my heart for
others.
Caring for life from the beginning to the end. What a simple
thing, what a beautiful thing … So, go forth and don’t be discouraged. Care for
life. It’s worth it!’
Full Message here: Catholic Bishops Conference - Care for Life, its Worth it
Some Quotes to ponder on.........
Sometimes even Catholics have lost or never had the chance
to experience Christ personally: not Christ as a mere ‘paradigm’ or ‘value’,
but as the living Lord, ‘the way, and the truth, and the life’. —POPE
JOHN PAUL II,L’Osservatore Romano (English Edition of the Vatican Newspaper), March 24, 1993 , p.3.
Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a
lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new
horizon and a decisive direction.—POPE BENEDICT XVI; Encyclical Letter:
Deus Caritas Est, “God is Love”; 1.
...we can be witnesses only if we know Christ first hand,
and not only through others — from our own life, from our personal encounter
with Christ. Finding him really in our life of faith, we become witnesses and
can contribute to the novelty of the world, to eternal life. —POPE
BENEDICT XVI, Vatican City January 20th, 2010 , Zenit
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