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January 10, 2019The Sanctity of Life Mass, a Mass honoring life from conception to natural death, will be celebrated by Archbishop Coakley at 6 p.m. on Jan. 16 at The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 3124 N. Lake Ave. in Oklahoma City.
“We are given the task of defending human life both by reason and by faith,” said Alex Schimpf, director of the archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life. “We must, therefore, defend life in ways great and small. We defend life by petitionary prayer to God for our needs and those of others. We defend life through advocacy and peaceful protest abortion and other human rights violations. We defend life through the corporal works of mercy, feeding and clothing one another.”
Following the Mass, Frank Cleary, the director of youth ministry at Saint Philip Neri Catholic Church will present a talk about how everyone can be a defender of life. Cleary has worked for the Church for more than 25 years and believes that the best way to a defender of life is to lead by example, treating people with the same dignity with which they should treat others.
“As a Catholic, fidelity to the faith is critical and from that flows an understanding of the dignity of the human being,” Cleary said. “As Saint John Paul II reminds us, the only proper attitude to which we encounter these people is through love. Seeing people in this light transforms our interactions with them. Being pro-life begins with loving the people God has surrounded you with, in all the complexity that entails. We must strive to live with the ethic of unconditional human dignity at the core of our everyday life.”
All are welcome to attend Mass and the presentation, presented by the Archdiocesan Sanctity of Life Committee. For more information about the Mass or the presentation, contact Alex Schimpf at (405) 721-8944.
