Saving Life

Mary McCarthy, Executive Director of the Pregnancy Care Center, is a convincing, faithfilled, fully-focused and determined figure in the quest to save lives, to give life a chance. Her agency, headquartered in Haverhill, with branches in several locations, including Lawrence, for twenty-five years has been counseling couples and individuals to choose life over abortion. Thousands of precious lives have come into this world because of the caring ministry of this center. That support for it is growing is one of the signs of hope that fit right into the approaching season of Advent. Our Good Mother, Mary, chose life, and it was a choice that has brought the Author of Life into our world and thus the availability of new life, eternal life, to the fallen human race. Mary McCarthy is well-named and walks in the footsteps of the great Mary who is "Wider than the Universe."
Also following in the footsteps of our Good Mother, is a group of seven Marist College students who have come to Lawrence for the weekend to help Lazarus House prepare food baskets for its larger-than-ever Thanksgiving food distribution over the next several days. Yes, three days have been allocated this year, because the demand is so high. It is a paradox that in this "land of plenty" so many have so little. It is also a paradox that the young, often labelled "self-centered and spoiled" should sacrifice a weekend before Thanksgiving, and before the imminent end of the term, to help provide for those who have less. Yet it is consonant with our Marist Mission, "to serve the least favored."
May these two examples of service to LIFE, be signs of hope for us, as well as inspirations to us to work and pray with equal generosity for the saving of this precious gift.
Bro. Rene