New Mexico Archbishop Webster Calls For Urgent Action to Defend Life

GREAT NEWS! NEW MEXICO ARCHBISHOP WESTER CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION TO DEFEND LIFE

‘Life of unborn cannot be subservient to the rights of mother’

Santa Fe Archbishop Wester, in response to how “New Mexico has become a safe haven for those who want an abortion,” issued an urgent call for the defense of human life with a powerful pastoral letter read at every Catholic mass in the archdiocese, on the feast of the Assumption: Tuesday, August 15th and Sunday August, 20th. This amazing proclamation coincidentally comes on the heels of the shocking discovery by New Mexico Alliance for Life that Governor Lujan Grisham’s abortion hotline is promoting “ritual abortions” by the Satanic Temple Health.

In his powerful letter, Archbishop Wester points out the need to support pregnant mothers, those in need of healing from past abortions, as well as the Church addressing the reasons that drive women to choose abortion, “we must do all that we can to support the mother and to help her sustain the right to life of her child.”

The Archbishop’s letter beautifully outlines the urgent call for New Mexico Catholics to defend innocent life from conception to natural death, combined with an act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, as a powerful means to “move our State of New Mexico to have a change of heart when it comes to protecting human life in the womb and beyond.”

New Mexico Archbishop Wester Joins NM Catholic Bishops in Public Consecration to Defend Human Life at All Stages.

The Archbishop’s public consecration of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe is joined by Bishop Wall of the Diocese of Gallup and Bishop Baldachinno of the Diocese of Las Cruces–effectively covering the entire state.

Archbishop Wester has instructed priests across the Archdiocese of Santa Fe– which includes Albuquerque and Santa Fe, to also pray the Act of Consecration at every mass. An excerpt reads, “O Sacred Heart of Jesus, we consecrate ourselves to you this day, seeking the grace to be effective advocates for the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. We pray that you will assist us as we seek to defend the innocent life in the womb and the fragile life of the sick and elderly. O Sacred Heart, shelter the cradle of the newborn babe; bless the child at school; guide the vocation of young men and women; sweeten the lot of the sufferer; support the aged; console the widow; be a Father to the orphan and the forgotten.” Read the Consecration Prayer here, the faithful are encouraged to print out and pray at mass or in private. Send a “THANK YOU” email to Archbishop Wester: vg@archdiosf.org.

Excerpt From the Pastoral Letter:

As a Church, we must continue to fight against the terrible sin of abortion. And we must also look at the economic, social, and psychological reasons that cause people to seek an abortion. Poverty is one of the most common of these causes. As Catholics, we must do all we can to eradicate these driving forces behind abortion.

All this demands that we change hearts. It is important to educate others but unless we change hearts, the pro-life movement will not succeed. It is the beat of our hearts that is the source of each person’s life breath. It is the sharing of our hearts that unites us in love. It is the depth of feeling in our hearts what is morally right that encourages us to hope. A heartless person, a heartless policy, a heartless society is dead, without life and love. Our challenge is to change hearts in order to change culture. And we can only face that challenge by grounding our efforts in prayer, prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Bishop Wall, Bishop Baldacchino and I agreed to join in consecrating our dioceses to the hearts of Jesus and Mary so that all of New Mexico would be supported by divine grace in our efforts to promote and protect human life.

Therefore, I invite you, my brothers and sisters, to join me in consecrating ourselves, our archdiocese, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, asking for the graces we need to protect, support and honor human life. In doing so, I am confident that we will move our State of New Mexico to have a change of heart when it comes to protecting human life in the womb and beyond. May God bless us all now and always. Your servant in Christ, Most Reverend John C. Wester Archbishop of Santa Fe.”

Send a “THANK YOU” email to Archbishop Wester: vg@archdiosf.org.

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