The prelates alluded to the admonition of St. Matthew in verse 6:25 of his Gospel:
But be careful, dear Gentiles, we must not sin in order to alleviate ourselves, or to do evil in order to make it good. … The Creator will not forsake those who trust in Him! … Do not worry about your livelihood, what you eat or what you drink, or your body, what you put on! Ye shall seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, and ye shall receive all the rest of it.
They also pointed to the physical and psychological damage of abortion:
When pregnancy occurs, the entire maternal body switches to raising the fetus. … Blood circulation takes new paths to where the baby is to be born, and if this child is removed, they are suddenly brutally disturbed. The body has started to function, causing a shock to the mother’s body that is difficult to recover from and has damaging traces. Because conscience moves in parents, especially mothers … family peace is broken, and as often as a child born in the world corrects a bad marriage, it is just as often the case that the abandoned child spoils a good marriage.
Six million babies have been aborted since 1956 — almost as many as children born in Hungary during that period.
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The bishops cited “great people” in history who, if their parents had aborted beyond an arbitrary number of children, “would have been a great loss for humanity.” Among them:
St. John Vianney, the fourth child
Blessed Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam, the secular apostle of the poor of Paris, the fourth
Painter Hans Memlingm, the sixth
William Shakespeare, the third
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the seventh
Johann Sebastian Bach, the eighth
Joseph von Fraunhofer, the great physicist, the 10th
Benjamin Franklin, the 16th
St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 13th
Source Article: https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/hungarian-bishops-defend-life-on-feast-of-holy-innocents
BLOGGER’S NOTE: Our good friend John Zmirak recommends we people of life should wish a Happy Herodmas to our Pro-Choice friends. I concur. Happy Herodmas to those who are Pro-Choice. See here for John’s article: https://stream.org/happy-herodmas-my-pro-choice-friends/
“Least” from Matthew 25:40
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“This word ἐλαχίστων (elachiston) is the word “least” from Matthew 25:40 as in “the least of my brethren.” It’s found in today’s Gospel in both the new Mass and old Mass lectionary. “Whatsoever you do to the LEAST of my brothers…” This morning in my Lectio Divina I decided to study that Greek word “least.” Notice that “least,” or ἐλαχίστων in Greek is the superlative of μικρος (also written in bold in that Greek dictionary picture) which in the Latin alphabet is *exactly* …written as “mikros.” Mikros is of course where we get the English word “microscope.”
So, what kind of person could be superlatively smaller than microscopic? It seems clear: How we treat an embryo or zygote—THAT type of person is Who we’ll hear referred to as Him by Him at our particular judgment: “The Emperor will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the *least* of these My brothers, you did it to Me.’”—Matthew 25:40”
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