Thursday, October 17, 2013
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.
“A curse is on you, teachers of the Law, for you have taken the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you prevented others from entering.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
God works in mysterious ways. Consider, for example, how the promiscuity of a woman can result to the delivery of a child destined to be great one day. Contraceptives bar this possibility. Advocates of their use share this rebuke from Jesus by analogy: “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.”
Anti-life advocates defend their position by citing the right of women over their wombs, ignoring the principle that one’s rights are necessarily limited by the rights of others. Most laws recognize this principle. Our New Civil Code provides in article 431 that the owner of a thing should use it only to the extent that it will not sacrifice the rights of others. (Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas).
Thus in article 649 of the same Code, a landowner is obliged 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 own property.
Even manmade laws provide that the enjoyment of one’s freedom should stop where the freedom of others begin. If we have no fear for God, let us at least be guided by pertinent laws of the land obliging us to observe restraint in the exercise of our rights. 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 that will deny the child of this right at any stage of his becoming 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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