"Choose life...by loving the Lord, your God, obeying His voice, & holding fast to Him."

 
11i For this command which I am giving you today is not too wondrous or remote for you.

12It is not in the heavens, that you should say, “Who will go up to the heavens to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may do it?”

13Nor is it across the sea, that you should say, “Who will cross the sea to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may do it?”

14No, it is something very near to you, in your mouth* and in your heart, to do it.

The Choice Before Israel.

15See, I have today set before you life and good, death and evil.j

16If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I am giving you today, loving the LORD, your God, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and ordinances, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.k

17l If, however, your heart turns away and you do not obey, but are led astray and bow down to other gods and serve them,

18I tell you today that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19I call heaven and earth today to witness against you:m I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,

20by loving the LORD, your God, obeying his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.n

(Deuteronomy 30: 11-20)

We can and we must stand up for the sanctity of each human life from its first moment of fertilization to its natural end.  We can and we must stand up for the sanctity of marriage / family / human sexuality!

Responding as Catholic Christians in defense of the Sanctity of Human Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/ Family/ Human Sexuality - in the U.S. & particularly in New Jersey & Pennsylvania.

And do not forget....

• The invocation for peace continues without interruption on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem (The Custody in the Holy Land, 10/28/23)