Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Your letters’ page (IC 27/10/2016) has yet again raised the worthy idea of having a national day to remember those who lives have been cut short by the abortion industry.
May I suggest that the Friday following the solemnity of Christ the King – falling between November 25 and December 1 inclusive – would be a suitable day to remember all who have been killed through abortion and abortifacients (the misnamed contraceptive pill).
As it is a Friday, our Church has already called upon us to follow some penitential practice. It falls immediately after the feast of Christ the King, that feast in which we celebrate our assurance that no matter what happens God is in charge; his loving plan for humanity will be victorious.
It also occurs immediately before Advent that liturgical season in which we look forward with anticipation, longing and repentance to the coming of Christ into our lives as he did in the history of the Jewish people 2,000 years ago.
Almost always it will fall in November, the month in which we remember our dead and those who have nobody to remember them.
It also has a more worldly significance in that normally it would fall on what the commercial world call ‘black Friday’, that day in which online consumerism reaches its height. In fact the cause of so many abortions is due to people viewing our sexuality with a consumerist mentality, and babies as disposable, unwanted, troublesome intrusion on that nihilistic life-style.
This year it will fall on Friday, November 25. Here in Cork, this coincides with our Pro-Life mass which is held at 7:30pm, in the Poor Clares’ Convent, College Road, on the last Friday of the month.
Yours etc.,
Gearóid Duffy,
Lee Road, Cork