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CST#1: Life and Dignity of the Human Person
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"Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance; through its crystal the world should see God."
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
CST#1: Life and Dignity of the Human Person
Modern Issues on
Life and Dignity
Abortion
Capital Punishment
Cloning
Contraception
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Euthanasia/ Assisted Suicide
Gentrification
Poverty
Racism
Sexism
Unjust War
...and the list goes on.
Saint of
Life and Dignity
How to witness to
Life and Dignity
Scripture on
Life and Dignity
- Start with your own life and dignity
- Be faithful in small matters first
- Compassion, not condemnation
- Pray before you speak!
- Reach out to representatives
- Attend pro-life rallies:
- Columbia: January 7, 2017
- Washington DC: January 17, 2017
"I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly."
John 10:10
CHALLENGE:
Scripture on
Life and Dignity
Pick one person (yourself is an option) whom you find difficult to treat well. Treat that person as if he or she is made in the image of God.
"Then God said: Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness...
God created mankind in his image;
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it...God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good."
Genesis 1:26-31
Tradition on
Life and Dignity
In Jesus, the "Word of life", God's eternal life is thus proclaimed and given. Thanks to this proclamation and gift, our physical and spiritual life, also in its earthly phase, acquires its full value and meaning, for God's eternal life is in fact the end to which our living in this world is directed and called. In this way the Gospel of life includes everything that human experience and reason tell us about the value of human life, accepting it, purifying it, exalting it and bringing it to fulfilment.
(John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 30)
Tradition on
Life and Dignity
"Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God... After all, life on earth is not an "ultimate" but a "penultimate" reality; even so, it remains a sacred reality entrusted to us, to be preserved with a sense of responsibility and brought to perfection in love and in the gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters.
In a special way, believers in Christ must defend and promote this right..."
(Saint John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 2)