Amy Welborn has a post on Respect Life Sunday asking people what there experience was.
As I mentioned in an earlier post I did not go to my regular parish and the Respect Life Sunday homily included just some boilerplate.
"Today is Respect Life Sunday and we must protect life from conception until natural death?"
Once he got that out of the way it was back to the homily which was quite good just minus and specific pro-life content. It was kind of like a homily with a commercial in it. "This homily is brought to you by the Bishop’s conference and Respect Life Sunday. Please pray for our sponsors."
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Chief:
Are you aware that your blog’s is not listed on her list of blogs? Neither is Patrick Sweeney’s blog.
Her page is so full of comments, I’m leaving one with you: We had a WONDERFUL prolife homily, including respecting the dignity of All humans, from conception to natural death. The priest also mentioned that when he first started speaking explicitly about his prolife views, he lost a lot of parishioners. We also had an ecumenical prayer service after our life chain (which was awful and painful- we were outnumbered 3 to 1 by flunkies from Banned Parenthood and the abortion mill we stood in front of). However, the ecumenical service was very nice, just needed more attendance.
In enland the bishops have turned ‘A Day for Life’ into a day to focus on the elderly, on schools (though we already have ‘Education Sunday’, on young people, though we already have ‘Youth Sunday’, in fact anything to avoid talking about abortion, contraception, embryonic stem-cell research, IVF or euthanasia.
That was England!