The Last Judgement - Michelangelo
When we get to the pearly gates, and at my personal last
judgment, Jesus will not ask me, nor 50% of my Catholic faith community, ”Did
you have an abortion?” This will certainly
not be my personal litmus test for salvation.
He will ask me, and my male Catholic brethren, and all of us, “Did you
protect innocent life?” “Did you choose life, compassion, and mercy?” “Did you see Me in the third world Muslim
child in the war zone, as equally innocent, precious, and present to Me--as in
the developing child in the first world womb?”
“
id you recognize that the mind justifying killing the
enemy and enemy’s children to save the country, is the same mind that justifies
killing the unborn child to protect the lifestyle of the parents?
Why do you think I said to love your enemy, and to put
away the sword? It was to teach that you
are all children of the same God our Father, and that all justified violence
and killing is against my new commandment, ‘Love one another as I have loved
you.’ Do you not understand my death &
resurrection? Did I act and teach in a
way that authorizes my followers to kill, in order to win a worldly kingdom, or
a smaller more prosperous family unit?"
“Did you aid and abet an abortion? Or on the other hand, did you expend massive effort to anti-abortion legislate the other’s personal morality? Did either of these help anyone to truly
choose a better life? Did you aid and
abet the large part of the U.S economy that has created the most lethal military
machine in recorded history? Did that
make the world more open to My love?”
May we choose life, and health, and charity, over the hardness
of heart which invests in war weapons and luxury, while others starve, and
pandemic crushes us all. In this time,
Easter, spring, we hopefully begin to make our society one, in which it is
easier to be good, right or left rich or poor.
Photo from Popular Mechanics
Illumination by Kathy Brahney
Amen Michael, we seem to choose the way which we become wealthier and own more, newer, or makes our life easier rather than spiritually. All weapons of death leads to our total community demise. May the God in each of us be awakened more and more every dayand move in the direction of preserving all life.
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