October -- Respect Life Month

At Sacred Heart, we'll celebrate Oct 24, but really the whole month is Respect Life.

Here's an excerpt from a letter from Camden Bishop Joseph Galante:

For over thirty years, the Catholic Church in the United States has celebrated Respect Life Sunday on the first Sunday in October. The theme this year is “The Measure of Love Is to Love Without Measure.”  This theme echoes the words of Jesus, “Whatever you do to the least of my sisters and brothers, you do to Me.”

The message of love has been a consistent theme of Pope Benedict XVI. In his first encyclical, God is Love (Deus Caritas Est) the Holy Father reminds us that “the Church cannot neglect the service of charity any more than she can neglect the Sacraments and the Word.  For the Church, charity is part of her nature, an indispensable expression of her very being.”