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Ez 17:22-24
2 Cor 5:6-10
Mk 4:26-34 Building the Culture of Life is a combination of our responsibility and God's responsibility. In Christ, God has already conquered death and brought about the victory of life. This is the starting point both of the Church and of the pro-life movement. And the Kingdom of Life is constantly growing in the world and in the hearts of those who are open to it. The images, in the first reading and the Gospel, of constant growth under the hand of God, are meant to inspire confidence in God's plan for the ultimate triumph of life and of all that is good. We too share responsibility. We will be judged according to what we do (2nd reading). Either our actions will promote and defend life, or they will promote and defend death. God gives the growth, but we must constantly plant the seeds. This is the opportunity to exhort our people to practical action on behalf of the defense of life. When one life is saved, that brings into the world all the good that individual will do, and all the children that individual will have.
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