builders of life and we are not only called to believe in writing role but to truly build a community a civilization of love that is built all the validations stone the forum of our day to day working whether it be in the political arena whether it be in the political work church meeting did in works of the church or whether it be in our own homes in our parishes things and we have to help them to see that their prayer is very important yes and there is heightened sacrifice and use of their prayer very important but that there also is things that can be doing and doing could be making phone calls you know as you just heard paul you know speak about some of your local political people's asti you know please stay in touch with us you know elderly people if you give the you know wonderful of it not form and say we want you to call each of the politicians today this is what we like  you know the idea here is that he you know so there are many people age who are very much time size more active than myself in that techno world they can get involved by writing emails you know getting people or their you know all on committees and conscience you know we hear people involved talked about this life insurance is there follow your conscience yeah we do use that language but what does that mean and of course the definition is clear is that the conscience is listening to the voice of god listening to what god is communicate listening to with god is revealing to the soul at the heart and responding to that voice of the lord now that means my fall and my conscience sorry conscience is flawed all right because you go against the very command of god now why is it important because it is ordered to build a culture of life we have to recognize that we are at the business of the car that we are not building our civilisation we're not building our definition of a community of love we are turning to the created through the foundation the one who is in the end the alpha the omega we turn to the one who indeed teaches us how to build such a culture and he is clear cleared the guidance and doctorate in this guy is along the way and the issue here is is that we have to respond to that wonderful teacher in the lord we have to respond to what he's invited us into and that he and i have to listen i have to really b example of the master it with the master teach he teaches me you how to be in our will and the will means to just sit in it joyfully and loving and selfless and to th teachings of god jesus says if you love me you will keep my commands so was it an issue here in our world today as you had to build in communities you have those who are building a community of life and love based in a very teachings of the almighty god and then you have those who are building their own creation their building their whole tower of babel if you will you know try to create there are always the heavenly glory trying to make them selves god if you will see him nothing more than their will on sustenance their own way of life at the usury of other people and this is very poor to see both that there is no middle ground here you know it can't be a great procedures of life trying to change a culture of life he got up and spoke out he spoke he wrote very clearly that he will not be accept this at all any definitive he says if a society a society is not based on its power it's not based on its money its prestige its based on its ability to care for the bulls vulnerable of a culture that's what defines a nation where we can take care of our most did was night what was already there but it had been suppressed for so long and you could see it in people that have people's faces you can see it in their actions it is solid though that last night above the public it's not a resolution of all the problems but it's a whole that's a culture of life and work that's what a culture of life does it intervenes in interest seeds it enters into the mold and says that this is the truth yet again this voice can do whatever they want they have the power that's a tyrannical system that's not a system that we want to recreate we want to live it doesn't promote the dignity of life it doesn't build the culture of life it just means  direction the truth keeps us grounded always solidly continuously in the right direction and that is why the culture of life recognizes objective  bits for example there are people today that are trying to to convince the population in the united states that you know certain behaviors are legitimate even though they go against the very essence  not based in an agenda truth is not based in with god unselfish reveal and as a as a result a society cannot sustain itself on such a system a system that bases itself not in circles and reread and this is a kind of again keep that in the mind because there's so many profound statements that he's making but this sudden here that i thought was very interesting again coming from les and john paul's second the holy father e again we see the balance the law law natural law guides the civil law the civil law is speaking to the natural law speaks to the with it our very conscience and with our very heart doll shall not kill do it will harm to another person that is ash deep within and yes the civil law says that if you do such a crime moral teaching come from he says it comes from the practice of religion and again is that speaking of age the titular religion first and then of course we always had that discussion the idea here is in the origin industry is unfortunately abandoning that very teaching those who are sadly in this state and also in oregon recognizing the positions assisted suicide do go harm there's society to follow that law otherwise it's chaos that is not what we see today on the street you know you ask yourself why are there so even murders you know why you know or you know people being killed you know for their tennis shoes a pair of desire jeans you know are a lot in their pocket you know let's call it all of all those things well because there's a respect for life like is disposable because you are an obstacle to what i want so i'm going to get rid of you so i can be happy i didn't have what i want thus the very foundation of the issue of abortion i do not wish  those who are sick when we see it with those who are handicapped you see it with those who suffer from little difficulties we see it across the board and the reality of this always creates not a society of light but it promotes discord and it promotes death that's what we're see and i mean i remember one of my uncles would watch the evening his and he would keep track of how many murders and you know and you  a deeper rooted issue this idea that we can live two different lives that i can walk into the building in my place of worship and yet the same time i can be a practicing abortions i can be a political person and promote an abortion as a legal entity that i can stand up in the community and live something so contrary to the gospel and my lifestyle and yet pretend that i can follow me the teachings of  public square we have an obligation to speak the truth obligation to vote we have an obligation to properly vote we have an obligation to speak the truth and to be on the public indifference of today i mean think about this in the united states of america what a beautiful privilege based in our declaration based and in the end the constitution based in the bill of rights that we have the the freedom to vote and yet how many people in this country do not exercise that responsibility how many captains don't exercise that smarts and how countless don't exercise it properly there lies the other part of the problem so again we have to look at all the components and look at what's going on and to recognize that a culture of life doesn't you live on it's not fun we have so much in the world today you still have systems in the world today that subjugate the human person to nothing more than a piece of property  lives across the planet we have as members of the mystical body christ a responsibility huard each other is to each other even here person doesn't alter the doesn't change your responsibility or he goes on to say it's a conspiracy against life it's were against one's self it's literally tearing one apart again jesus  is a lie it's a deception it's a pop person and so it's a conspiracy against my marriage it's a conspiracy against my obligations a conspiracy against what god called examples day nearly this year different numbers but it's between forty two to forty five percent of children today in the united states are born out of wedlock forty two to forty five percent it's eighty percent yet why it's such a huge change again you have to look at the culture you have to look at was happening in the culture you know where worship is very very for the sacredness of chastity promiscuity becomes just something an activity is a recreation it's a sport it's what we do we get into our pleasures we just act out on we take in all the other aspects of that we just enjoy full life and enjoy it all to a school but in reality it's a drink in poison and kill and i'm brain dead into my own community and the reality is is that those things will never produce life christ calls us to produce death and that is why we had a war legation to intervene is what it was crossing the street and i saw a car coming toward you i would do whatever i could that when i see the law you know not promote life and when did i do something about when did i see a child being put to death and i did nothing about with it i see an elderly person made us for beauty god made us for life god made us for himself and anything to the contrary goals against the will of  again i think as we look out into our world it is very intimidating can because we look out of the world and we see so much power being used persuade people to get  opposite you see what we have to recognise in our country is the discipline of the gospel of life the discipline and calls us to live in those now will pathways of which jesus speak not to get into the wider path but to live the narrow and that means that we have to recognize starting very young in our in our upbringing of our young people is how to teach them right from wrong how to guide them in the that if a person goes in it starts late how the foundation that is not solid and starts building it building up on it and the foundation is me we already know is going to happen jesus himself says you do not build your house on that something greater that we are not temporary people living all need for a temporary role that we are a people who are before eternal life and that all our actions all of our deeds reflect that again and that is thought about the heart sometimes we have to be willing to confront the hard subjects and not to be intimidated by them trust as a parish priest and as a priest we're not nineteen years trust me i don't make many friends we search talking about status quo well we are called to be counter cultural we are called to intervene we are called by the lord to grain the light of the gospel to the hands of the earth we afraid of the words that may come back our way but if you keep trying our club it may be just like what i said last night that we stand at ease of worship mils we stand on the state capitol building steps we intervene with our politicians we planned parenthood targets those are the ones and population groups are targeting if you look within those areas of communities where there is poverty you will fight planned parenthood validations you will find that in many of them what because they're eighteen themselves because of the engine did that they have and so we have to recognize that this is an attack against the most vulnerable of society what are we doing to intervene but how do we build it well if we were all contractors in this room with various disciplines we would all come to the word for work the job site with the tools that we need to do our job the mason come in wherever my task is the reason why i was hired is i'm supposed to be a professional in my area of expertise we are people of circles get involved you know and again probably i'm preaching to the choir again but i'll watch it and watch it answer me heart give me any feedback but how many of us in the room are involved in our parishes how many of us are involved in the food kitchens shelters how many of us are going out to the abortion mills and praying with other brothers and sisters i mean big here in st monaco's you know post tell me i think you had with two thousand families give or the country again and we were talking about this is a good you imagine there are one hundred ninety five dioceses in the united states of america there are obviously one hundred ninety five ordinary and you have the retired bishop but imagine when they gathered in baltimore i'm serious baltimore as an example for the annual meeting usually i think it's in june it's when they gather baltimore pushing imagine you have the whole some of our raiders of the cost to ship and so he gave us a wonderful wonderful way of looking at how we are to engage on that level the road in the educational part the idea of learning to understand what uncomfortable too but you know i'll go with you can stand right by me and i mean i'll keep you company i'll be sure that you're comfortable as best i can you know hot you know you come down with me to the food kitchen today let me serve meals to some of the indigent people that shop that makes me so uncomfortable well i'll stand with you i'll go with you i'll make a commitment to you i will stand with you we'll go together get people involved in fight them talk to the build never stopped trying to invite them to look at it much more deep is sad it is very sad it is extremely sad that people within our whole have these beliefs but we must intervene but al sacrament of confession and a bunch of these and take one for yourself and for some other people as well as very important as we confront the culture of death and try to be builders of a culture of life that we take care of our own spiritual life as well and that we people love of prayer that we frequent the sacraments that we spent time that you've got adoration that we come to t actually get chicago if he isn't on the board of directors of human life international and father of book a just met with him just recently just last week in chicago and what is a pro life here the negative affects of the pill and does welfare reduce abortion which kind of fit in with you know sometimes people will say well we've got to work to reduce abortions you know we we should  as treasured and protected by law so they'd be unborn children should enjoy the same protection that we can have the protection of the laws of our land and there this is from ok because i mean even though we know that there are culture because that within our culture is somebody people have lost the practice of their faith over the last fifty sixty years that many young people are not being formed to their not being given opportunity to build in that culture of life sit there is truth in the statement sure that many of our young people do not know the church's teaching they don't know the teachers gospel of our lord jesus christ be witnesses what are we trying to do to help them here in our parishes in our homes our grandchildren our nieces or nephews our cousins where we have it influence what are we doing to confront that and if there are going to your height of support for abortion came back in the one nine hundred seventy s it was you know like eighty ninety percent of students but now the majority of students that are entering into college park pro life now unfortunately during the college years is what we said tend to lose them so maybe that's where that poll came from but but i think you know for example  convention in the archdiocese of chicago four hundred people mostly young people were there so you see this of begin to think the idea is building i was in st thomas university in houston where a hundred thirty four students which most chastity sells his last night after course on the government side tonight or this morning i'd like to to address the spiritual side because that's another thing that i really see a lack of and we were warned about this back from middle of thirteen going right up on into the current day and there's a real lack of even mentioning the double in the spiritual side and then we also have speaking about you know is the court for our st michael campaign is to confront that then bargain with the spirituality and that is to recognize that the spiritual part of this is under attack too and so as be holy and blameless in his sight to live it is love and to give him praise that's why god made us and so when we lose that vision and we allow other things to intrude on the dignity of the person that we are called to be in jesus christ then naturally i move away from the spiritual death and i begin to of sort myself into paralysis and as part of the problem the idea here is again the legacy that we're trying to build a legacy is we are looking towards eternal and so we take our eyes off of that and we place in all the in the moment so the reality of prayer the commitment to a rich spiritual life is key to this we're being that's why that's why we need to pray that's why we need to go to confession because we're not going to do it on our own it's not going to be a brilliant speech that i give or fall of ok gives it's not going to be  last night i mean greece is a prime example in greece you have where you needed you have the average woman has one child so there's no replacement of the mother and father if you will to use that language and as a result you know you have a much older population to a smaller younger population which cannot sustain the older body and soul does you have the economic problem the societal problem the breeze that's not going to result by pumping billions brother or sister is in sin and i need to intervene but never in the public for you to know embarrass i don't make fun of them i don't tell everybody else but someone doing you know i tried my best to confront it and to deal with it now if i don't see that it's getting to another level then maybe i will bring you know a few other people maybe some very dear friends that are opposed to this and they're already know to talk we could be do you know that doesn't work especially if the person is really engage forum where we're dealing with public officials you know that's a whole other dozen different again that's a different responsibilities that goes to the bishops and those of us who have the right to vote and to intercede in their own calls but the person in the pew our brothers and she needed a simple operation to help her to swallow she was not given that of a ration and she was starved to death now then no good soap was not was not a believer in god he certainly is not a christian but he saw that that was wrong and he began to logically see that what the pro lifers were have been saying is right that logically if you don't if you don't respect life i don't believe one plus one equals two one plus one equals zero you know life begins at the moment of fertilization if you have a separate unique human being with a different genetic structure than either father or go to watch the demographic bomb or the demographic winter you will get a pure scientific mathematical approach to the population control and so moment in the abortion issue just move it into another another realm but it's all connected because the the plan the population control groups obviously are very much for abortion is the genesis the way to control quote that accusation but when you follow the and muslims walk because they have children is following a down so the idea here is that you have those who are proposing a different lifestyle that is contrary to the