Thursday,
October 15, 2015
28th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading:
Rom 3: 21-30
Gospel: Lk 11:47-54
Jesus said to the Pharisees, “A curse is on you, for you build memorials to the prophets your ancestors killed. So you approve and agree with what your ancestors did. Is it not so? They got rid of the prophets, and now you can build!”
(The Wisdom of God also said,) “I will send prophets and apostles and this people will kill and persecute some of them. But the present generation will have to answer for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was murdered between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, the people of this time will have to answer for them all. (…)
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in
the Assimilated Life
Experience)
Jesus goes full blast in his attack against the hypocrisy of the Jews by holding their generation answerable for the blood of the prophets. He argued that by building memorials to the prophets killed by their own ancestors they agreed with what these murderers did. On its face the reasoning is overstretched. But in the context of the hypocrisy of the Jews, Jesus’ argument held water.
This writer is tempted to do some overstretching to bring contraceptive advocates to the domain of the Pharisees so they’d share with the Pharisees Jesus’ rebuke. The sexual act must be open to the possibility of life. Contraceptives bar the possibility. The victim could be the future doctor, lawyer, priest, or prophet! By analogy, advocates of contraceptives share Jesus’ rebuke: “But the present generation will have to answer for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world.” We are not saying that contraceptive use is direct murder. The point is that contraceptives bar the possibility of life.
What about every woman’s right over her womb? Most laws recognize limitations to human rights. Article 431 of our Civil Code, for example, provides that the owner of a thing should use it only to the extent that it will not sacrifice the rights of others. Article 649 obliges a landowner to provide road right-of-way if a neighboring lot is isolated from the highway and there is no shortest access to that highway other than through the landowner’s property. Article 694 punishes wrongs arising from the unreasonable use by a person of his property.
The unborn has the “right of easement” over the womb of its mother because that is the child’s only access to the world. Any act denying the child of this right at any stage merits rebuke from the author of life. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email:dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website:www.frdan.org.
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