Brother Knights,
As Knights it is up to us to lead others in promoting the culture of life, as Knights we must provide the foundations for the pro-life movement. These foundations are ultimately the Christian faith, whose interpreter is the Catholic Church.
In document after document, we have come to know that the culture of death must be converted to the culture of life. Otherwise human society will not survive.
Knowing this is an opportunity. It’s an opportunity to remember that God put us here for a purpose. He’s asking us to turn our hearts to building the kind of world that embodies his love and honors the sanctity of the human children he created.
As knights, we must not be afraid to confront our society with the truth about life – about the beautiful gift that it is, how it cannot be taken for granted or taken away by whim.
Brother Knights we need to spread the word. With a unifying voice our local community must hear us say that life is beautiful because it is made in God’s image and likeness, it is precious because it comes from Him. It is not ours to manipulate, only to receive with gratitude, enhance what we can, and respect from beginning to end.
Our generosity in the face of the selfish individualism of our culture is a powerful way of proclaiming the Gospel of Life.
Take a moment and imagine what would happen if the Knights of Columbus were to be publicly identified with a vigorous pro-life movement. Local priests would be encouraged to address the life issues forthrightly in their parishes. The laity would follow their newly identified leaders. The culture of life would be advanced immeasurably.
A culture of life depends on each of us! It depends on Catholics who deeply believe in eternal life, as it is us as Knights who heroically live out what we believe.
Brother Knights have you wonder why there is a massive anti-life movement throughout the world? Could it be that Catholics have not fully lived up to their God-given responsibility?
The world is made evil by human beings, but what gives life to this world, what gives this world a reason for living must be, provided by Catholics. Only we, have the full possession of revealed truth. This failure to speak up has one result. We have legalized abortion around us, just minutes from our meeting place.
As Knights we need to live, believe, and promote eternal life. We need to reach out to the Catholic laity: those in married life, the single, even children, should be taught from infancy that they are made for eternal life and have explained to them the conditions for reaching eternal life after bodily death.
The faith of pro-life leaders must be a clear and not a confused faith. If we are to have a clear Catholic faith, we should, and start today, examining our consciences on what we are reading, listening to, and watching in the mass media. We must mortify our mind and imagination and not expose them to the rampart error that saturates our atmosphere. Otherwise, we can patiently listen to a conference on the pro-life movement, be an activist, and pro-life rescuers, but God bless you, you are not real leaders in the Catholic pro-life movement.
As Knights, we must zealously promote human life among those with we live. Notice the emphasis on promotion. This means being missionaries of eternal life. Let us be honest, the only people with whom we are going to live in eternity, joining us in the heaven for which we were made, are the people like us. The price of eternal life is the practice of charity. The highest charity we can practice on earth is to share our faith, faith in eternal life, with others.
We need to work to change the culture. That demands a lifelong commitment to education, Christian formation and, ultimately, conversion. If we change one heart at a time, while we save one unborn life at a time, the day will come when we won’t need to worry about saving babies, because they’ll be surrounded by a loving and welcoming culture.
Your commitment to human life matters eternally. Some lives will only be lived because your voice made those lives possible So no matter how tired you get; no matter how hard the work becomes; no matter who praises you or who condemns you; the only thing that finally matters is this: Jesus Christ is Lord. He came to give us life and life abundantly. God is good; and he never abandons his people. And because of his love — and because of the witness of people like you — the future is ours. And the best is yet to come.
God bless
Hector Garcia
Pro-Life Director
