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Dear Sacred Heart Family,

On January 13, 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation designating the third Sunday of January as the first National Sanctity of Human Life Day. Churches around the United States use the day to celebrate God’s gift of life, commemorate the many lives lost to abortion, and commit themselves to protecting human life at every stage.

Abortion violates the rights of God, who creates human life in his image and likeness, thereby endowing it with an eminent dignity and value. At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, on February 5, 1994, Saint Mother Teresa stood before President and Mrs. Bill Clinton, and Vice President and Mrs. Al Gore, along with 4,000 others in attendance, and called abortion “murder.” Here is what she said: “I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.”

In our battle to defend the rights of God and innocent human life, we must turn to Our Lady, who is both Virgin all-pure and Mother, Mother of Christ Our Savior and our spiritual Mother.

In Christ and Mary Immaculate,
Fr. James Kaniparampil CMI

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