Life

Being informed about issues important to the Catholic faith enables us to make a choice and take a stand on controversial issues like the Reproductive Health bill that is being pushed for legislation by some lawmakers in the Philippines.

In the TV show, The Word Exposed early this morning, it was enlightening for a passive Catholic like me to listen to some of the issues discussed by Bishop Chito Tagle and Fr. Nono Alfonso. The Catholic church, (from what I understood and remembered of the discussion)is against the bill because it will be creating a culture of death, which is the opposite of what the Church is preaching, the culture of life which means taking care of life from womb to tomb. Life begins at conception and ends with natural death, we have no right as stewards of life to nip in the bud it's growth and mechanically severe it's existence if we think it can no longer serve it's function.

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The reproductive health bill that they are proposing to legislate violates the culture of life and loving of my Holy Church. Life is my breath given to you from the time of conception till it voluntarily passes away.

Life is holy and should be treated as such. Sex is not a casual play of human passion and desire, for it is through the union of the man and a woman that the spark of life is given. This sacred activity should not be viewed as an avenue for the satiation of human lust alone because to think so would diminish people to the level of animals.

People were made superior than animals with the mind to choose and reason to discern what is right and what is wrong. A human being is equipped with these mental faculties to enable him to live as a human being should, not to have bestial attitudes. He should uphold the dignity of man with an uprightness befitting the son of God. You are all my children, be holy and sanctify your body to Me because I own it and you are my temple.

To tamper with yourselves is to insult your Creator. For have I not given you what is best for you? Sure, you would like to look more beautiful than the others but have it ever entered your minds that each of you are unique in your own ways? This uniqueness makes you beautiful in your own way. Why do you like to copy the noses, the lips, the eyes of others? Do you like to look all alike? What then would be beautiful in this world if you all look similar?

There should be variety in everything to appreciate what is really true, valuable and beautiful. Don't compare yourself with others for there is reason why you are dissimilar from each other. Uphold yourselves, be proud of your bodies for you are all beautiful in My eyes. You are my own image, Yes, even those who are disfigured physically and mentally are beautiful and not meant to be despised because they are My own.

Would you only worship a beautiful and handsome God? Will you turn away from Me because I am not the handsome face you venerate on your altars? How foolish you are! Open your eyes to the heart of the persons around you, for there you will see true, radiant, vibrant joy that can never be tampered by a cosmetic surgeon's hands. Real beauty radiates from within. Look at those people who reconstructed their faces, look into their eyes, do you see a sparkle there? A glint of pride that doesn't shun the eyes of someone curious trying to decipher what made them look different from the previous meeting.

These women who wanted to feed their insecurities should have come to me for a total make-over. Receiving and acknowledging my presence in their lives will make them look radiant, glowing and happy more than what they would feel after being cosmetically restructured. Human procedures are passing and doesn't give a warranty that everything will be okay. Mine is everlasting beauty of mind, body and spirit.

Physical beauty sags and rots in due time because that is the way it is, from dust you came, to dust you shall return. From womb to tomb, I am with you, from womb to tomb you should give importance and value to the life I gave you. Man should not tamper with what God gave unless, it is to save the life that I gave.