Pro-all-life.Ann ANN, Scotch law. Half a year's stipend over and above what is owing for the incumbency due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Wishaw. Also, an abbreviation of annus, year; also of annates. In the old law French writers, ann or rather an, signifies a year. LeBlanc's article in the May issue ("My prolife protest") is both rewarding and challenging. I consider myself prolife but have never marched or carried a sign against abortion. Nor have I marched or carried a sign protesting war or the death penalty. But I have thought many times that the protests against abortion of and by themselves are, as LeBlanc says, "way too easy, and it's not enough." It is much harder and much more meaningful to be actively involved in the lives of those who are in such need of our care and compassion compassion, n a profound awareness of another's suffering coupled with a desire to alleviate that suffering. . LeBlanc offers a real challenge to each of us. I often refer to the "seamless garment The phrase "seamless garment" refers to the seamless robe of Jesus, which the Gospel of John describes Jesus as having worn to his crucifixion. In 1971, Roman Catholic pacifist Eileen Egan used St. John the Apostle's phrase to describe a holistic reverence for life. " approach to being prolife, and I think we Catholics are called to so much more than just marching and carrying signs. In Matthew 25:31-46, the parable parable, the term translates the Hebrew word "mashal"—a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy. In the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, however, "parables" were illustrative narrative examples. Jewish teachers of the 1st cent. A.D. of the Last Judgment, Jesus gave us very clear and concrete ways we see and treat him in the particular lives around us. Gerard Burford Indianapolis, Ind. |
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