The culture of death is anxious for as many deaths as possible. As The Church predicted, they began by legalizing and encouraging contraception, moved to abortion, and now, euthanasia is publicly mentioned. Power death-lovers have paid huge sums for legal decisions allowing for “assisted” suicide, preparing the way for it to be mandatory.
The problem is, many are afraid that they may lose something. Babies are routinely aborted for because one or both parents “can’t afford a baby, right now”. Young people are, whenever possible, shunted into life-shortening practices. Old people are directly threatened.
Oddly, few fight against the culture of death. “What can I do?”, we ask as we understand the incredible size of the goliath that wants to destroy us. None of us are too busy to say, every day, the prayer mentioned back in the beginning of this month’s columns:
“Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host –
by the Divine Power of God –
cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.”
Praying that vital prayer takes little time, and little effort, but it shows God that we care and that we know we need His power to make things better. Praying is more than most people do.
As we grow in faith, we see that there is great help available beyond. We have but to ask for it . It helps in the frequency and intensity of our requests to live in a way that makes our requests of that great power consistent with our obedience to it. Since none of us is as good as we can be, we may at least mention our shortcomings in our prayers, so we know that God knows that we aren’t trying to put something over on Him.
