Fr. Frank
Pavone Urges Americans to Recall Abortion in Sermon at National
Memorial for the Preborn Today
January 25, 2013
Washington, DC – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of
Priests for Life, today delivered his sermon Recall Abortion at
the National Memorial for the Preborn and their Mothers and
Fathers at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC.
Excerpts from the sermon, which was given before pro-lifers
gathered on the Mall for today’s March for Life, follow. For the
complete text, please visit
http://www.priestsforlife.org/library/4473-father-frank-pavones-sermon-at-the-national-memorial-for-the-preborn-in-washingtondc-full-text.
We recall abortion today.
We recall the most
destructive decision and costly error ever made by a human
authority, the Roe vs. Wade decision.
We recall what
abortion is, because in Christ we have the courage to both face
the truth and call things by their proper name.
We
recall, and must recall to others, what the abortionists
themselves admit about abortion, that it is dismemberment and
decapitation, that it tears children apart and brings out the
skull in fragments rather than as a unified piece.
Brothers and sisters, if abortion can be called right, if it can
in the least way be tolerated, then --
We are not our
brother's keeper after all.
….
Therefore the
Christian Church must rise up to meet this hour. We must rise
up, we must speak up, we must act up.
We must make it
clear to those in our midst who are tempted to abort their child
that we recall them, that we recall their confusion and despair,
and are ready to meet it with compassion and hope.
We
must make it clear to those in our midst who every day recall
the child they aborted and recall their grief and pain, that we
recall them, too, and that we have good news for them, that we
have someone to introduce them to, that we have a Savior who
lifts us up out of the darkest sin, and that his name is Jesus
Christ.
We must recall mothers and fathers and families
to their original dignity.
We must recall to their proper
status the children in the womb.
We must recall the
medical profession to its proper and noble role: healers of
life, not takers of life.
We must recall the government
to its fundamental role: to protect the rights God has given us,
not to be a god over us.
We must recall public servants
to their fundamental duties. We need public servants who know
the difference between serving the public and killing the
public. And if they don't, they do not belong in public office.
….
We recall the Church to acknowledge, furthermore,
the sacrifice it is going to take to end abortion. We have been
promised trouble in this world, and we know trouble comes when
we address abortion.
When we speak about it in Church,
we're told it's too political. When we speak about it in
politics, we're told it's too religious. In the world of
media the topic is too disturbing. In the world of business
it's too distracting. In the world of education it's too
controversial. In the streets it's too disruptive.
So
if abortion is wrong, where do we go to say so? We go into
the Churches, into politics, into the media, into the business
world, into education, and into the streets!
….
When faced with trouble and opposition, Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. reminded the civil rights activists that no dogs were
going to turn them around, no water hoses were going to turn
them around, no police clubs or jail sentences were going to
turn them around, and no injunction were going to turn them
around.
And I say to you today in the pro-life movement: no Planned
Parenthood is going to turn us around, no biased media is going
to turn us around, no HHS mandate is going to turn us around,
and no Obama administration is going to turn us around.
It's been forty years. The Promised Land is in front of us!
And we are going to enter it together!
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