Consider suicide, assisted or
otherwise, which is covered under the Fifth Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” Consider that assisted suicide is double
murder: the person who is committing
suicide is killing himself or herself, and the person who is assisting him or
her is aiding and abetting a murder and perhaps even administering the lethal
blow or lethal dose of medicine.
If you know of someone who might be
considering assisted suicide, please consider praying this little prayer with
them: “Dear Lord, please hear my
prayers, pleas and petitions, and if they be in accord with Thy will and are
for the salvation of my soul, for Thou knowest what is truly in my heart and
what I truly need and want, for You will grant what I may ask of You, and please
may You use all for Your good, for Yours is the greater good. Amen.”
The thing is that once the human
being’s body dies, that’s it. The soul,
which every human being has within its own body and which we become when the
body dies, goes home to Jesus who is in Eternity waiting for it. And that soul may find it difficult to answer
to Jesus when He asks, “What are you doing here?”
And then consider the poor human
being who is still on the earth after having helped to murder someone. Like the soul of a baby who has been aborted
(murdered), the soul of the person who committed suicide has gone home to
Eternity and is no longer on the earth to bother anyone. The people who were connected with the
abortion in any way, especially the mother and the father, and the people who
helped with the suicide, whether it be one person or a group of people gathered
around the dying person, are still here on the earth and it is they who will
inevitably come to realize that they murdered or helped in the murder of
another human being.
Consider the current case of Cathy [Brittany]
Maynard which seems to be upsetting some.
Consider all of the United States Military Veterans who have found life
after their time served in the Armed Forces so difficult that life in God’s
world (for we live in God’s world, not He in ours) was for them not an
option. The thing is that suicide,
assisted or otherwise, is not an option for any human being.
Dear God, You Who have created each
and every human being and given each and every human being a soul, from Adam
and Eve to the present time, please welcome all of those souls home, especially
those who have disobeyed your Commandment and who have sent their souls home to
you prematurely. Please see them in a
kindly light and please recall that even in Eternity, only the true Love of a
Father and a Son can save a soul.
(Retribution doesn’t work, not even for You, God.) Please let Thy Holy Way of suffering and
holiness act for them and in them so that they can be with You in Your Heavenly
City of Jerusalem forever and ever.
Amen.
Our Lady of America, pray for us.
By Thy holy and Immaculate
Conception, Oh, Mary, deliver us from evil.
Sincerely
yours,
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