An additional duty

The Archdiocese yesterday sent out an email about a group calling themselves "Ruth Sent Us", threatening Mother's Day Protests at Mass on Sunday.  Wile I am rather sure that there are higher value targets in the city of Portland than our relatively small parishes, I would urge all of our Knights to be safe, smart, and yet also courageous and firm.

Protect our priests.  Protect the Eucharist.  Protect your families.  And please, protect yourselves.

If you see something, be there, be a presence.  And say something.   They claim the unborn are not human and can be killed.  They claim that the suffering can be released from their pain through suicide.  But we know that to kill the defenseless through abortion or euthanasia is more than a sin- it is an attack on the love of the family, an attack on our most fundamental rights.

When in 1882, part of why the Knights was started was to defend the faith.  That is part of why I got 35 men together to charter the John Clare Council in April of 2012.  Be there.  And always remember- our strongest protection is in prayer, so pray for our parishes and our country,  but also pray for those who oppose us that their eyes may opened to the miracle that is life.