Encountering Our Lord

A personal letter on forgiveness

Violence in the womb still happens. The convenient elimination of the most vulnerable among us goes on. It must end. The right of all to life must be affirmed. That is the truth of the gospel message of Jesus of Nazareth. He is not the Lord of abortion. He is the Way and the Truth and the Life. The Lord of Life.

Let us ask the Lord to guide our choice and to lead us by the kindly light of God’s own Spirit to vote for those who will make the authoritative decisions and most cooperate with the grace that God is providing…let us accept the results of the votes and then extend a hand to link up with those of different viewpoints and convictions. We can find a way. We can choose to live in harmony.

What if? We have all heard that little phrase and probably used it ourselves in dealing with some hypothetical situation. Those two little words do serve a useful purpose at times though. This election time, what if I really took seriously the Surrender Novena?