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Homily - LifeChain 2026 - Genesis 9:1-7

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The Virgin of the Lilies,  1899, William-Adolphe Bouguereau Human life is valuable because it is made in God’s image, therefore: Fertility is a blessing, not a curse There is a reckoning for those who hate life A business of death. Planned Parenthood, along with the other abortion mills in Minnesota and throughout our nation are in the business of death. At this abortuary they do chemical abortions using the abortion pill every Wednesday. Based upon my research they charge between five and seven hundred dollars for that. At other abortion mills where they do later term surgical abortions the price goes up to a couple thousand dollars. In years past we learned that Planned Parenthood, and other abortionists, sell baby body parts and perform experimentation on them, and have even received funding from our government, using our taxes, to do all of these nightmarish things with the bodies of babies. This business of death places a price tag on these lives, and gives them a value of a f...
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Sermon - Lent 3, Year C, 2025 - Luke 13:1-9

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The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree , Carl Rahl, 1812-1865 Calamities lead us to repentance. Present Theodicy/Problem of Evil Evil does not necessarily happen as a consequence for specific sins God uses worldly tragedies to bring about repentance and eternal salvation Why do bad things happen to good people? If God is so good and so powerful, why does evil and suffering exist? These questions are known as the problem of evil and theodicy. These are the types of questions which lead many people to doubt God’s goodness, especially when terrible tragedies strike those whom we love. Some people respond to these doubts by forsaking the Lord. Others make the assumption that the evil things are happening because the people receiving them have done some specific evil thing and are being punished. For example, when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans people claimed this was the result of their specific sins committed on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras. Or on 9/11 when the airplanes hit the towers...
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