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Continued from 2 Weeks Ago. the Previous Part Can Be Found At: Dmsbcatholic.Com/Election (Continued from 2 weeks ago. The previous part can be found at: dmsbcatholic.com/election) 1) Practical implementation of the Catholic Principles concerning voting a. You can NEVER vote for someone BECAUSE you want to PROMOTE an intrinsic evil this person supports. Examples: It would be gravely sinful to vote FOR a candidate BECAUSE you want to promote abortion “rights”, homosexual marriage, or socialism. If your intention is to promote as good something the church defines as intrinsically evil, you would be committing objective mortal sin. b. While Catholics are not “single issue” voters, a single issue CAN disqualify a candidate if that issue makes the candidate incapable of promoting the common good. Support for abortion is the prime example of an issue that disqualifies a candidate.i c. In theory, one could vote for a candidate that supports an intrinsic evil if: 1) you don’t support the intrinsic evil they support, 2) AND all of the other candidates running against them are proportionally worse in the harm they would do to the common good. Everything hinges however on knowing how to weigh the issues and this is where many people go wrong, thinking many issues on one side can outweigh one issue on the other side. The reality is that one issue can outweigh many other issues if those issues are all dependent on this one issue, namely, LIFE. “There is no element of the common good, no morally good practice, that a candidate may promote and to which a voter may be dedicated, which could justify voting for a candidate who also endorses and supports the deliberate killing of the innocent, abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, human cloning or the recognition of a same-sex relationship as legal marriage. These elements are so fundamental to the common good that they cannot be subordinated to any other cause, no matter how good.” ~Cardinal Burke, Our Civic Responsibility for the Common Good Think of the game “Jenga.” Not all of the blocks have equal importance in holding up the structure. If you remove the foundation piece, everything will come tumbling down. Protection of innocent human life is the foundation of our society. If someone can’t be trusted to defend innocent human life, then they can’t be trusted to get any issue right that affects the dignity of the human person. Then there is the urgency of the matter involved. If there is an active shooter killing people, it becomes urgent to stop the killing. And when the number of innocent lives being lost is in the tens of millions, this becomes, as our bishops have told us, the “preeminent” issue demanding our attention. We have a Christian duty to work for the greatest common good. This involves promoting good and limiting evil. “Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights—for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture—is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with the maximum determination” ~ Pope Saint John Paul II, Christifideles Laici, 38. Analogy: consider if there are two calls to a fire department on opposite sides of town and they only have one fire truck. If one call can save 5 lives and the other 10,000 lives, you have the obligation to go where you can save the most number of lives. So when you have the certain and immediate loss of tens of millions from ongoing abortions there is no combination of other issues that equal this threat. This does not mean that other threats are ignored, simply that you prioritize to save the most lives possible and defend the foundational issues for our society to survive. i "It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop." ~Pope Saint John Paul II, The Gospel of Life encyclical OCTOBER IS THE MONTH OF THE ROSARY October 7th - Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary October 13th - Feast of Our Lady of Fatima FIRST FIVE SATURDAYS By Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC Are you sick of turning on the news and seeing nothing but violence and mayhem? Well, there’s something we can do to bring about peace. ‘War is your fault’ My fellow Marian Fr. Seraphim Michalenko sometimes tells a story that a priest ministering in Japan shared with him in Rome. This priest was at an international gathering of Christians from across the world, attended by foreign dignitaries. The ambassador from Japan approached the priest, verified that the priest served in Japan and was a Catholic priest, and then said, “War is your fault.” The priest was surprised and asked what the ambassador meant. The ambassador said, “You Catholics, all of you — we do not have peace in the world. It is your fault.” The priest said, “Ambassador, why do you blame us?” The ambassador said, “I’ve read about this. The Lady came to you at Fatima, right? That’s what you believe? She told you what to do to secure peace in the world. Well, there’s no peace in the world, so obviously you Catholics haven’t done it.” The priest had to acknowledge that the ambassador was correct, but still tried to protest, saying, “Isn’t peace everyone’s responsibility?” The ambassador was vehement. “No, she came to you Catholics. Not to Buddhists. Not to Hindus. She came to you, and it is your responsibility.” That ambassador had more faith than a lot of Catholics! But he’s right - Our Lady came and asked for specific things at Fatima. If we listened to her and did what she asked, there would be peace in the world. Among her requests: pray the Rosary every day for peace in the world; the consecration of Russia and each of us individually to Mary’s Immaculate Heart; do our daily duties out of love, dedicating everything to God; and make reparation for sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary by observing the “Five First Saturdays of Reparation.” What are the Five First Saturdays? Our Lady explained those Five First Saturdays to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries, on Dec. 10, 1925, in the following way: See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Do you, at least, strive to console me. Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary. Why five First Saturdays in particular? Jesus explained this to Sr. Lucia on May 29-30, 1930, saying: Daughter, the motive is simple: There are five kinds of offenses and blasphemies spoken against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. First: blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception Second: against her Virginity Third: against the Divine Maternity, refusing, at the same time, to receive her as the Mother of mankind Fourth: those who seek publicly to implant, in the hearts of children, indifference, disrespect, and even hate for this Immaculate Mother Fifth: those who revile her directly in her sacred images Here, dear daughter, is the motive that led the Immaculate Heart of Mary to petition Me to ask for this small act of reparation. And, out of regard for her, to move My mercy to pardon those souls who have had the misfortune to offend her. As for you, seek endlessly, with your prayers and sacrifices, to move Me to mercy in regard to these poor souls. Do they still matter? Now, a lot of people have forgotten about the Five First Saturdays devotion, but it’s still relevant today - wars are still going on! We still haven’t seen the fulfillment of Our Lady’s promise that “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.” According to Sr. Lucia, St. John Paul II consecrated Russia to Mary’s Immaculate Heart on March 25, 1984. The USSR fell shortly afterwards. And yet there’s still not peace in the world. Why? Ask yourself: Have most of us been faithful to her requests, especially the First Saturdays of Reparation? So I call on everyone who loves Mary to start making the Five First Saturdays a regular part of their prayer life. For anyone who visits the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on the First Saturday of each month, it’s easy! Pilgrims can go to Confession, pray the Rosary for Life, and attend Mass with the intention of making reparation to Our Lady - as she requested. To fulfill the requirement to meditate for 15 minutes on the Mysteries of the Rosary, you can prayerfully walk the Stations of the Cross on Eden Hill for at least 15 minutes, remaining aware of keeping Our Lady company in spirit throughout her Son’s Passion & Death. One and done? If we’ve made the Five First Saturdays once, are we done for life? No! You can and should make the Five First Saturdays more than once.
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