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To help us in the ongoing educational / “messaging” challenge that we face, the USCCB has launched a new website, http://www.firstamericanfreedom.com – to explain long-standing church teaching on religious practice and traditional marriage. Please check out this website and sign up for regular updates.

 

And please remember never to cease praying hard for our nation, our Church, and especially our Bishops as they make critical decisions in the coming months for the future of the Catholic Church in America. I was recently given these words from the late Fr. John Neuhaus spoken in another historical context, but I believe just as relevant for our current one:

 

“…So long as we have the gift of life we must protect the gift of life. So long as it is threatened, so long must it be defended. This is the time to brace ourselves for the long term. We are today laying the foundations for the prolife movement of the twenty-first century. Pray that the foundations are firm, for we have not yet seen the full fury of the storm that is upon us.

 

But we have not the right to despair. We have not the right and we have not the reason to despair if we understand that our entire struggle is premised not upon a victory to be achieved but a victory that has been achieved.

 

If we understand that, far from despair we have right and reason to rejoice that we are called to such a time as this, a time of testing, a time of truth. The encroaching culture of death shall not prevail, for we know, as we read in John’s Gospel, ‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’ The darkness will never overcome that light.”

 

On behalf of Bishop Soto I want to offer you his and my heart-felt gratitude and blessings for your continued, tireless and often unnoticed work for the Kingdom of Light and Life. May God reward you with every spiritual blessing as you approach the celebration of his arrival as a fragile child into our fallen world.

 

Sincerely yours in Him,

 

Steve Patton

Associate Director

Family and Respect Life Ministries

Diocese of Sacramento

916-733-0133

spatton@scd.org