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Pro-Life Advocacy: Its Urgency in Our Present Society

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My talk will not be long. In this talk I will focus on why it is urgent that we work hard so that the House Bill 4244 or the so called Reproductive Health Bill will not be passed by Congress and the Senate. I will also explain and refute the ideas on which those who are in favor of the HB 4244 base themselves. Before anything else I would like to remind ourselves of the broader or complete meaning of pro-life advocacy. We should defend and promote life from the womb to the tomb in all stages of life. Here I would like to quote lengthily from the encyclical letter of Blessed John Paul II, “Evangelium Vitae, the Gospel of Life, No. 3” “Every individual, precisely by reason of the mystery of the Word of God who was made flesh (cf. Jn 1:14), is entrusted to the maternal care of the Church. Therefore every threat to human dignity and life must necessarily be felt in the Church's very heart; it cannot but affect her at the core of her faith in the Redemptive Incarnation of the Son ...

Family and life seminar materials

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The director of the Family and life Commission of the Diocese have given the copies of the materials used during their seminars to all the parish coordinators of family and life. I uploaded them to the site of the commission, on Diocese of San Pablo Family and Life Commission . There was no video taken the seminar. I have implored them before to at least documents their seminars so that the diocese can have a ample documentation concerning the activities and to be able also to share it with others. These are the topics discussed during  the 40 years of humanae Vitae The Encyclical Letter of Pope Paul VI, written in 1968, describes the great vision for marriage; a way of living which enables a man and a woman to give their lives to one another and in which their mutual self-giving is both life-enhancing and life-transmitting. It is a prophetic letter because it speaks of the great dignity and mission of marriage in an age in which so many forces are directed against human love. These ...