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When
God fashioned the human person in His own image and likeness, He
destined us for eternal life with Himself. Yet because of the sin of our
first parents, death entered the world. The book of Genesis recounts
the first occasion in which a person takes the life of another, as Cain
violently kills his brother Abel. This instance of brother rising up
against brother “at the very dawn of history is thus a sad witness of
how evil spreads with amazing speed” (Evangelium vitae 8).
By
Titian -
https://www.titian-tizianovecellio.org/the-complete-works.html?q=Titian+-+Cain+and+Abel,
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1171218
Since
this time, disregard for human life has continued to spread. When we,
like Cain, allow sin to find a place in our hearts, we become blinded to
the truth. Sometimes this blindness might be so deep that we fail to
recognize the undeniable humanity of preborn children. We may even
tragically believe the lie that abortion is an act of compassion. But we
know that “life, especially human life, belongs only to God: for this
reason whoever attacks human life, in some way attacks God himself” (EV
9). Let us pray that all who support abortion will encounter the
transforming love of the Father and, with repentant hearts, seek His
mercy.
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