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Friends,
today’s Gospel speaks plainly of Satan and sin. And in light of today’s
anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, we still feel the
echoes. When we look realistically at the society around us, we can
become pretty discouraged. The conservative estimate regarding the
number of abortions since Roe v. Wade is 54,000,000. That’s nine times
Hitler’s holocaust. Assisted suicide was recently made legal in the
state of California. The death penalty remains a blight on many of our
states. And most people in our culture now feel that these states of
affairs are simply a fact of life. The culture of death, as St. John
Paul called it so bluntly, seems to be on the march.
But
I want everyone to attend to what the prophet Habakkuk tells us: “Write
down the vision clearly on the tablets…for the vision…will not
disappoint.” What is he talking about? He’s describing the arrival of
salvation to a people who had grown weary and desperate, convinced that
God had abandoned them. And he is urging them to have faith, to trust.
And
so on this somber anniversary, we continue to raise our voices and to
walk according to faith. Our vision will not disappoint.
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