Inevitably, it always goes back to the same passage in the Bible for me,"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." Jesus tells us this parable so as to say that "...whatever we do to the least of our brothers", we do unto Him. And whatever we DON'T do, we don't do unto Him as well. That does it for me.
So as a practicing Roman Catholic, I find it difficult not to get involved in the well being of the least of our brothers; the pre-born. Those children still in the womb whose very lives are at the mercy of their mothers and society as a whole.
Sometimes at the end of an active day of youth ministry I'll convince myself, that everything I did, I did to serve my God out of love but the reality is I am deathly afraid of the rest of that parable in which the King says ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.".
Jesus tells us boldly and plainly that our actions and inactions toward our brothers and sisters are really actions and inactions toward Him: I love you = I love Jesus. I feed you = I feed Jesus. When we abort our children, we abort Jesus. If we do nothing to stop the current injustice happening everyday in our country how will we be judged? Jesus' theology has never been hard to understand yet throughout the ages, it has been impossible for humanity to get it right.
What does this all mean to me? For you?
What does this all mean to me? For you?
I don't want to test Jesus to see if he really meant it or not? I DO want to spend eternal life with Him. So to me its an easy choice. Feed the hungry and poor, take care of the sick, visit the lonely and stand up for those who can't speak up for themselves. Be pro-life in action and prayer. Indifference is no longer an option like it had been for my previous 40 years of life being a Cafeteria-Luke-Warm Catholic. Today I give my all to Christ, His Church and his people, all of them. Even the ones still in the womb.
God Bless You All.
Amate Vitam
