"I am not him, I am not the real Jesus... Here is tv Jesus, tv Jesus, and there, up there, is the actual Jesus Christ," said Jonathan Roumie, pointing out Heaven in consequence to the enthusiastic ovation of the participants of last year's Washington March for Life. This applause is easy to realize due to the fact that for respective years it has been accompanied by an actor who plays the function of Jesus Christ in the tv series "The Chosen".
Almost 300 million people worldwide are already watching this production based on the motives of Jesus ’ life in Nazareth and his group of disciples. The actor, converted thanks to this function on the Catholic faith, did not hesitate to execute at the pro-life march despite the awareness that in the movie manufacture he would alternatively lose out on it than gain. Yet, he boldly cried out to young Americans: “God is real, he is real. present God loves you due to the fact that you are here! For present you stand here to fight for the noblest cause; to give the right and the chance of the unborn to come into the world. You decided to come to the capital not only to mourn 64 million children lost by abortion for the last 50 years, but to defend those who were not yet born on the way to their birth."
Recalling the decision of the U.S. ultimate Court, rejecting the national “right” to kill conceived children, Roumie reminded me it was a good decision, but the case is far from over. Speaking of his experience, the actor mentioned that “conversion has specified a not necessarily pleasant effect that it shows you your own life without a veil! And you see that God is real, but Satan is besides real! Not the comic image of the character with horns, but the real father of the lie, the large fraud, the diabolical slanderer, who is pushing us to lie. And then we want to believe that abortion is not harmful to ourselves and to our community. Please, let us pray for those who have no religion and no strength to pray for enemies and persecutors. But we know how this communicative ends. God has won!’
In appeal to the young Americans, the function of Jesus was besides recalled by Psalm 139:
13 6 For you have formed my kidneys,
You woven me in my mother's womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderful,
Your works are admirable.
And you know well7 My soul,
15 Not a secret to you, my essence.8,
When I was in hiding,
woven in the ground8.
16 Your eyes have seen my deeds9
and they are all written in your book9;
the days have been determined,
Although no of them [yet] came yet.
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Where to find light?
Jonathan Roumie is an exceptional case alongside Jim Caviezel erstwhile individual from the planet of mass culture, from the movie industry, manifests so fervently his commitment to the pro-life movement. Participating in the march, he urges young people to reject the increasing wave of demonic images, promoted by the amusement manufacture and online media.
They are the origin of false religion that we must live in the age of Christian fasting. “I reject it!” we hear. Similarly, it is false to believe that sexual work is the only good way to live. Jonathan Roumie besides recalled that we all have a work to carry the banner of defence of all life from conception to natural death, and that can help, first, by continuing to recite the rosary, and, second, by courageously recognizing and revealing in our lives and in our surroundings areas of darkness to bring the light of fact there.
And here, seeing and listening with joy and sympathy these words, spoken by the American actor during the March for Life, we must answer the question of where to look for the sources of this light outside the Gospel itself, which many people reject for various reasons. The answer is simple and trivial: in books that are the origin of cognition in this very area of social life, where the most crucial fight for our future is the fight between the civilization of death and the civilization of life and love.
A place of peculiarly dramatic confrontation is the question of the alleged “right” to kill unborn children, whose importance is besides recognised present by technological authorities in the field of social sciences. For example, the French prof. of political doctrine and the historian of Chantal Delsol ideas, whose books are already translated into Polish. In 1 of the statements in the media space, she pointed out that it is not possible to resolve the question of the future of our European civilization with a clear answer to the question: whether the parent has the right to decide herself to whom to give the kid the dignity of a man, from whom the right to life derives, and to whom to deny this right in the name of pragmatic, applicable and obstinate rations. This question besides focuses on the fundamental dilemma of the modern concept of human freedom and dignity.
Against Easy Choices
One book that may be helpful in seeking answers is Tomasz Terlikowski's publication “A fresh Culture of Life. Apologia of Catholic Biology". This book is simply a kind of encyclopedia guide in the field of the aforementioned area of knowledge, which includes answers to basic questions about abortion, euthanasia, in vitro, contraception, genetic manipulation. The author analyses the arguments contained in teaching Catholic doctrine and in technological studies that confirm the meaning of these moral principles.
Anyone who has doubts present in the face of world-view disputes and conflicts will find there reliable information and logical reasoning that clearly shows that the Catholic religion does not conflict with facts, and even more so with the logic of rational thinking. Tomasz Terlikowski convinces the reader that it is the opposite. The defence of conventional sexual ethics, of the natural household and of the heterosexual institution of matrimony is, in fact, a necessity in the light of the experiences we can observe in those Western countries, where moral principles have ceased to apply in practice. The same applies to genetic manipulations and medical experiments, which – freed from moral limitations – are already announcing the arrival of a real catastrophe that will destruct the human species or origin its biological destruction.
In summary of his book, the author points out that all the biological phenomena described in it and the resulting rationalities, and not only the moral principles resulting from the revelation, are absolutely fundamental to social life. Terlikowski argues that “the acceptance of suffering, the awareness of the challenges of moral life that have been present in ethics since stoic times, has been replaced by the search for justification for simpler and easier choices. Modern moralists increasingly, alternatively of promoting a hard morality, are afraid with proving that easy is moral, and heroism remains a bad example, humiliating average people.”
The cure for specified a deep illness of modernity can be only God, and more specifically God-man, for “today more than ever, we are dealing with a culture of pure and average “opening”, freedom without content and existential emptiness. And that is the top tragedy of our time. (...) Apart from Christ as a concrete person, surviving reality and event there is only human emptiness and despair,” said the Cardinal Terlikowski. Biffi during a retreat for the Roman Curia.
Emotions are a bad counselor
After 15 years of publication of the book, it is hard not to announcement that about the Catholic author, Tomasz Terlikowski, present we hear various critical opinions from erstwhile sympathizers and conservative authors. any even talk of “the infidel Thomas”, referring to his criticism of the Church, priests and brothers in religion opinions. The problem is that Terlikowski's critical diagnoses are increasingly emotional and at the same time little material, due to the fact that besides frequently they mention to negative and at the same time false stereotypes that usually usage anti-Catholic propaganda. This is evident very clearly where we request cool analysis and carefulness, not just courage in the choice of words and arguments. Today, it seems that Tomasz Terlikowski besides easy succumbs to the temptation to put radicals too. Even if it sells well, it does not bring the author closer to achieving the goal of convincing the unconvinced.
All the more crucial are the reminders of his book, which accurately present cognition of human sexuality, bioethics, and moral principles; which defend our lives in all dimension, especially family, social and civilization, in a way that lacks publicistic bloating and narcissistic, in fact tromtadration, from which we sometimes cannot escape in the privacy of our hearts and minds, where humility should reign and this forgotten present or ignored "order of the heart." This peculiar state of spiritual balance allows us to see the simplest truths about the essence of humanity, specified as the 1 about the right to life of all human being from conception to natural death.
Read it. Pass it on.
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