{"id":13435,"date":"2014-01-27T00:47:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T06:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=13435"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:00:18","slug":"driving-life-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/driving-life-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Life Away","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\">THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS<br \/> for January 27th, 2014<br \/>Opt. Memorial St. Angela Merici<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\">Liturgical texts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/012714.cfm\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/locked_door_000.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>WHEN <\/strong>David marched on Jerusalem, the inhabitants at that time shouted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-size: small;\">You cannot enter here: the blind and the lame will drive you away!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p>David, of course, is an Old Testament type of Christ. And indeed, it was the <em>spiritually <\/em>blind and lame, <em>&#8220;the scribes who had come from Jerusalem&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>, who tried to drive Jesus out by casting shadows on His reputation and twisting His good works into appearing as something evil.<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are also those who wish to twist what is truth, beauty, and goodness into something intolerant, oppressive, and wrong. Take for instance the pro-life movement:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>The abortion struggle of the past four decades teaches a very useful lesson. Evil talks a lot about \u201ctolerance\u201d when it\u2019s weak. When evil is <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/chaput-fortnight_000.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"236\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"2\" \/>strong, real tolerance gets pushed out the door. And the reason is simple. Evil cannot bear the counter-witness of truth. It will not co-exist peacefully with goodness, because evil insists on being seen as right, and <em>worshiped<\/em> as being right. Therefore, the good must be made to seem hateful and wrong.<\/strong> \u2014Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, homily for the National Prayer Vigil for Life Closing Mas, Washington D.C., January 22nd, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, abortion is framed as an infringment on &#8220;rights&#8221;, traditional marriage as &#8220;discriminatory,&#8221; parental rights as &#8220;abusive,&#8221; purity as &#8220;oppressive&#8221;, and so forth. The reason for this is very simple.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The very existence of people who refuse to accept evil and who seek to act virtuously burns the conscience of those who don\u2019t&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2014Ibid.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this what happened to Jesus? The Scribes hated the Light that exposed the darkness of their hearts, and so they turned logic on its head in an attempt to discredit Him. And Jesus replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-size: small;\">&#8230;if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, we have created what Archbishop Chaput calls a &#8220;culture of violence.&#8221; In the name of so-called &#8220;human rights&#8221;, we have taken away the rights of the most helpless of all, the unborn. And now it is the sick, the handicapped, the depressed, and the elderly who are being selected for extermination under the guise of the &#8220;right to die.&#8221; And of course, there is the &#8220;right&#8221; to contracept, which has eliminated an untold hundreds of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p><em>A house divided upon itself will not be able to stand<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And so, here we are: the Western nations have ceased having children, or are aborting babies, to the point where fertility rates have dropped below replacement levels. Europe <em>as we know it<\/em> will cease to exist within the next few decades. Likewise, North America is on the same path to becoming an Islamic continent at current birth and <em>immigration <\/em>rates. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_13435_1('footnote_plugin_reference_13435_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_13435_1('footnote_plugin_reference_13435_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_13435_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_13435_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. Watch the video: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6-3X5hIFXYU\">Muslim Demographics<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_13435_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_13435_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> If we kill our own, then our house will collapse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>&#8230;nations are born and thrive, and then decline and die. And so will ours&#8230; Only Jesus Christ is Lord, and only God endures. Our job is to work as hard as we can, as joyfully as we can, for as long as we can to encourage a reverence for human life in our country and to protect the sanctity of the human person, beginning with the unborn child.<\/strong> \u2014Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, homily for the National Prayer Vigil for Life Closing Mas, Washington D.C., January 22nd, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How symbolic it was, then, that after Pope Francis and two <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/crowomen.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"207\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"2\" \/>children released peace doves into St. Peter&#8217;s Square yesterday, the doves were attacked by a <em>crow<\/em> and a <em>seagull<\/em>. One commentator noted that the crow in folklore is an omen of &#8220;death&#8221;, the seagull, of &#8220;personal freedom.&#8221; It is precisely &#8220;human rights&#8221; and the pursuit of personal autonomy at all costs that, ironically, are now taking away the rights of the most vulnerable. This has led to a culture of violence, a culture of death that is only beginning to reap its harvest, and destroy peace.<\/p>\n<p>But, we also have to ask ourselves individually: am I also one of the spiritually &#8220;blind and lame&#8221; who drives Jesus away from my heart? Every time I compromise, every time I know something is right, and yet, I do not do it, I push Jesus away. And when I push Him away, I am pushing away <em>life<\/em>. So in His place comes guilt, sadness, depression, anger&#8230; darkness. In a word, I become divided against myself. And if I continue to resist Jesus, the house of my heart will collapse in ruins because I am living in a way that is divisive within: my flesh craves this, but my heart knows it is wrong, and there is a war. My conscience burns, my heart races, my mind wanders, my state becomes anxious and restless.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-size: small;\">Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom 7:24-25)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesus is the one who can set me free. The key is to stop running away, to bring sin into the light, and trust that living &#8220;the truth will set you free.&#8221; <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_13435_1('footnote_plugin_reference_13435_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_13435_1('footnote_plugin_reference_13435_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_13435_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_13435_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">cf. Jn 8:32<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_13435_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_13435_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> To such a one, God promises as He did David in today&#8217;s Psalm: <em>&#8220;My faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-size: small;\">And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed&#8230; But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from all sin&#8230; If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing. (John 3:19-20; 1 John 1:7-9)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">RELATED READING<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-great-culling\/\"><strong><em>The Great Culling<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-judas-prophecy\/\"><strong><em>The Judas Prophecy<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/embracinghopetv\/archives\/791\"><strong><em>The Passion of the Unborn<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/is-a-fetus-a-person\/\"><em><strong>Is a Fetus a Person?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" 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