Gospel of Life # 1 of 2

Gospel of Life # 1 of 2
Pope John Paul II’s “Evangelium Vitae” 1995
cinops be gone, Satuday,March 15, 2008
1) It is therefore a service of love which we are all committed to ensure to our neighbor, that his or her life may be always defended and promoted, especially when it is weak or threatened. Section 77
2) Too often it happens that believers, even those who take an active part in
the life of the Church, end up by separating their Christian faith, from its
ethical requirements concerning life, and thus fall into moral subjectivism
and certain objectionable ways of acting. (95)

3 The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we
recognize that we are dealing with murder…. (58)
4) To be truly a people at the service of life we must propose these truths
constantly and courageously from the very first proclamation of the
Gospel…
In the proclamation of this Gospel, we must not fear hostility or
unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which
might conform us to the world’s way of thinking. (cf. Romans 12:2), 82

5) We are facing an enormous and dramatic clash between good and evil,
death and life, the “culture of death” and the “culture of life.” We find
ourselves not only ‘faced with’ but necessarily ‘in the midst of’ this conflict: we are involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable
responsibility of choosing to unconditionally pro-life. (28)
At the root of every act of violence against one’s neighbor there is a
concession to the ‘thinking’ of the evil one, the one who ‘was a murderer from the beginning’ (John 8:44) …
But God cannot leave the crime unpunished: from the ground on which it has been spilt, the blood of the one murdered demands that God should render justice. (cf. Genesis 37:26): Isaiah 26:21’ Ezekiel 24:7-8) From this text the Church has taken the name of the ‘sins which cry to God for justice,’ and, first among them, she has included willful murder.” (8-9)
6) Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore
radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the
common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. (72)
The above are excerpts today and tomorrow from a booklet, A Humble Plea, To Bishops, Clergy and Laymen – Ending the Abortion Holocaust by Randall A. Terry, 904-461-9834 – www.randallterry.com

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.

P.S. The Encyclical has a powerful message. If you can’t be persuaded by the evil of abortion and euthanasia nothing else will. In my own special edition of The Gospel of Life from “Inside the Vatican” - April 1995, there are 105 Sections in 50 pages. I will duplicate these pages & hand deliver them, in the next several days, to the offices of State Senator Lou Correa and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.
P.P.S. (There will be no postings during Holy Week.)