weekly Letter from the Bishop of Huesca and Jaca
for Sunday March 27, 2011
"There's always a reason to live" is the theme of the Day for Life this year, held on March 25, Solemnity of the Annunciation.
Bishops of the Subcommittee for Defense Family and Life have written a note to remember: "It's huge maternal work of the Church that always welcomes all men, especially when they suffer, recognizing in his pain crucified Christ himself. We can only thank and promote the work of many of our brothers in the accompaniment of unborn life and families in children's homes and elderly without resources, in homes for children with physical or mental disabilities; in homes for the mentally ill or drug recovery centers; in care and care for AIDS patients, in soup kitchens and shelters for those who are homeless, in hospitals or clinics sponsored by the Church to show the love of Christ with the sick in the vast network of Caritas or the many projects undertaken by many religious and lay people committed to the poor. "
They added: "This enormous fertility Church is the witness without words that recognizes the greatness and sacred dignity of human beings and expressed the certainty that God's love embraces every life caring and sharing."
"The Gospel Life is at the heart of Jesus' message, "said John Paul II in his encyclical" Evangelium Vitae "(EV 1). And trust the cause of the life to Mary, the dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, with these words: "Let those who believe in your Son may proclaim with firmness and love to the people of our time the Gospel of life. Obtain for them the grace to accept as a gift ever new, the joy of celebrating it with gratitude throughout their lives and the courage to bear witness to it resolutely, to build, together with all people of good will, the civilization of truth and love, to the praise and glory of God the Creator and lover of life " (EV 105).
Announce and make present the indestructible love of God brings light and meaning to life of every human being is the heart of the mission of the Church.
John Paul II wrote: "It is urgent for a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort to implement a great strategy for life. All together we build a new culture of life: new, to be able to confront and solve the problems of today on the life of man; new, to be taken with a firmer conviction and active for all Christians; new, because it may raise a serious cultural event and brave to all "(EV 95).
We must continue working hard for a new culture of life, and we are inspired and sustained by the confidence of knowing that the Gospel of life, as the Kingdom of God, grows, develops and produces abundant fruit .
introducing the core of his mission, Jesus himself tells us: "I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly" (Jn 10.10).
Receive my cordial greeting and my blessing.
Juián Ruiz † Martorell
Bishop of Huesca and Jaca
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