By CatholicVote | Created at 2025-01-25 00:21:14 | Updated at 2025-01-26 06:56:02
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CV NEWS FEED // In his homily for a youth Mass preceding Friday’s National March for Life, Father James Glasgow urged people to demonstrate God’s mercy amid the brutality of abortion.
Local Catholic youth gathered at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. for the Youth Mass for Life on Jan. 24 to celebrate their shared appreciation for life, just ahead of the March for Life events.
The event included Eucharistic Adoration, reconciliation, and various musical performances, and it concluded with the celebration of Mass.
Fr. Glasgow, George Washington University’s campus ministry chaplain, said the call to conversion and “looking to Life Himself” are crucial for society to become one that celebrates life.
“What is Jesus’ response to the suffering sinner? He doesn’t condone… He doesn’t condemn, He has compassion, and He calls to conversion,” Fr. Glasgow said. “It is through this proposition [that] the Lord offers to you and I this way forward in building a culture of life.”
Fr. Glasgow also spoke of Christ’s immense compassion toward others in the midst of the ongoing battle to protect innocent life and the need for people to reflect that compassion when they look at people who have experienced abortion.
“Compassion and mercy are not an elimination of human wrongdoing, but a recognition that Christ is stronger than the bonds of sin,” Fr. Glasgow said.
Showing mercy is challenging, but it is the only solution for mothers who have had abortions, he said.
“The greater the sin, the greater the need to distinguish between sin and sinner, the greater the need to be utterly convinced of the infinite power of God’s mercy,” he said.
At the same time, Fr. Glasgow urged individuals to be bold in their defense of innocent life.
“We shouldn’t be afraid to condemn something that goes clearly against the justice of God,” Fr. Glasgow said. “This begins with abortion.”
Fr. Glasgow noted that life should be protected at all times, noting that no life is more valuable than another.
“The care for life in all stages, should be seen as an unfolding and a building upon the defense of life in the womb,” he said. “We don’t care for those who are suffering, and for those who are poor, at the expense of caring for the unborn.”
