Repeatedly, at least because they allow us to think. We just celebrated the Christmas and the beginning of a new story. God came to meet man like a child, in the womb of a woman, in a family, and this event has changed so much, for those who believe and for those who do not believe: it is no coincidence that we count the years from that day, whether the dating of those stars that have fallen into line in the sky of Israel.
There Church accompanies us with the liturgical succession to remember, shortly, the Holy Family and the Mother of the living God, Maryto which the new year is dedicated. A woman, a family and a child change the great history and history of each of us. But appealing to such a moving and splendid reality seems like childish naivety, and the increasingly closed heart does not want to hear about children.
The year is ending with disturbing data, theIstat it tells us of an old, tired country with no future. There is one child for every six elderly people in Italy and the trend is that the gap will increase. Worse, according to the latest findings (2022), the data on abortions: there would have been some in Italy 65,661The 3.2% more of the previous year. Over 65 thousand unborn children, nothing more than Herod’s massacre. Never so many in the last twenty years and it will be even worse.
But this aspect of the arid matter is much more serious: three girls out of a hundred have terminated a pregnancy. That is, it is the youngest who deny themselves motherhood, the most beautiful gift for a woman, regardless of what a distorted feminist ideology says about it. And they denied life to a son and a son to all of us, a piece of the future.
With the reservations about starting a family they undoubtedly have to do with psychological fragility, economic difficulties, lack of support for mothers from society as a whole (the State has many faults, but if children bother us, are an encumbrance, a problem, no reform will be sufficient to expand mind and heart). But why reject life to a creature? Why are there no homes and jobs? It’s not a sensible answer. You can choose to give a child to foster care or adoption. You can always choose not to do evil, because taking life is evil.
What happened to our consciences to have debased our responsibility to the point of always attributing the blame for our evil to others? I know that as we enter a new year we should hand out words of hope, trust, serenity And peace. But it’s there wartoo close, and peace does not exist without it justice And truth. We must begin to work for peace. How we must grow hope in justice and truth.
There birth rate it is not primarily a social, political or economic problem. It’s a problem of gaze. I would like to start the new year by watching it amazement in the smile of a child. I would like conscience to focus on its own smallness, the smallness of widespread selfishness; I would like to ask for a gift heart of fleshcapable of moving man and therefore of the impetus to start again.
A child is born to usa son was given to us. Let’s give a child to tomorrow.
