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Life: A Fundamental Right

Life: A Fundamental Right. Reflecting with Pope Benedict. We pray together. Father, your truth is made known in your Word. Guide us to seek the truth of the human person. Teach us the way to love because you are Love. Jesus, you embody God’s Love and Truth.

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Life: A Fundamental Right

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  1. Life: A Fundamental Right Reflecting with Pope Benedict

  2. We pray together Father, your truth is made known in your Word. Guide us to seek the truth of the human person. Teach us the way to love because you are Love. Jesus, you embody God’s Love and Truth. Help us to recognise your face in the poor. Enable us to live out our vocation To bring love and justice to all people. Holy Spirit, you inspire us to transform our world. Empower us to seek the common good for all people. Give us a spirit of solidarity and make us one human family

  3. We read Psalm 139 Yahweh, you examine me and know me, You know if I am standing or sitting, You read my thoughts from far away, Whether I walk or lie down, you are watching, you know every detail of my conduct. The word is not even on my tongue, Yahweh , before you know all about it; Close behind and close in front you fence me round, Shielding me with your hand. Such knowledge is beyond my understanding, a height to which my mind cannot attain. Where would I escape from your spirit? Where could I flee from your presence? If I climb to the heavens, you are there, There too, if I lie in Sheol.

  4. Psalm 139 If I flew to the point of sunrise, Or westward across the sea, Your hand would still be guiding me, Your right hand holding me. If I asked darkness to cover me, And light to become night around me, That darkness would not be dark to you, Night would be as light as day. It was you who created my inmost self, And put me together in my mother’s womb; For all these mysteries I thank you; For the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works. You know me through and through, From having watched my bones take shape When I was being formed in secret, Knitted together in the limbo of the womb. You had scrutinised my every action, All were recorded in your book, My days listed and determined, Even before the first of them occurred.

  5. Reflecting with Pope Benedict The right to food, like the right to water, Has an important place within the pursuit of other rights, beginning with the fundamental right to life. It is [...] necessary to cultivate a public conscience that considers food and access to water as universal rights of all human beings CIV 27

  6. Openness to life Openness to life is at the centre of true development... By cultivating openness to life, wealthy peoples can better understand the needs of the poor... ...can promote virtuous action within the perspective of production that is morally sound and marked by solidarity,

  7. Openness to life Respecting the fundamental right to life of every people and every individual CIV 28

  8. Respect for life If human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, The conscience of society ends up losing the concept of human ecology and, along with it, that of environmental ecology. CIV 51 If there is a lack of respect for the right to life and a natural death,

  9. Reflecting together • Why is the right to life considered the most “fundamental” of all rights? • In what ways do you see the right to life threatened in your community? In our world? • How is the right to life related to other basic human rights, like food and shelter? • As a Catholic, how can you live out a commitment to promoting both human rights and human dignity?

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