In my many conversations with her about the pro-life movement, it was very clear that she expected us not simply to pray but to intervene. She told me about how she went to the places where abortions were performed and took the women by the arm, away from that place of death and to her communities where they would find hope and life for themselves and their children.

Help us to honor Mother Teresa by joining the special novena we have posted at priestsforlife.org. You will find a prayer to say, and will be able to share with us how Mother Teresa has influenced your own life – that’s at priestsforlife.org.

Above all, honor her by imitating her.

Not only accepting, but eagerly yearning for the will of God, causes us to serve the weak, and to work to see that human law reflects God’s will by protecting the vulnerable. Saying “thy will be done” also helps us avoid the temptation to throw life away when it is afflicted with illness.

This is what happens when God’s people turn the other way and ignore the abortions that kill thousands of babies every day – or even participate in them. This dishonors both the rights of that child and the honor of God. Hallowed be Thy name, through our commitment to life. Hallowed be Thy name, through the sacrifice we make to defend life, and the care we give to mother and child alike.

Giving, whether of our time, talent, or treasure, is based on the very nature of God. Though He did not have to create us, He did..and then became one of us and died for us. He taught us the meaning of giving when we don’t have to and of giving from our very substance, from our very life.

The Lord Himself referred to a theology of giving. After observing the rich putting their sizable donations into the temple treasury, he saw a poor widow making her contribution, whereupon He said, “I assure you, this poor widow has put in more than all the rest. They make contributions out of their surplus, but she from her want has given what she could not afford — every penny she had to live on” (Luke 21:3-4).

Most of us give to some charity, and we give what we do not need. But how often do we give away what we do need? And the fact that we need it is precisely why we need to share it.

The needs of another are not just the other’s needs; they are ours. We are one body.”The body is one and has many members, but all the members, many though they are, are one body; and so it is with Christ….God has so constructed the body… that all the members may be concerned for one another. If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members share its joy. You, then, are the body of Christ. Every one of you is a member of it” (1Cor.12:12, 24-27).

How much should we give to a cause that we know is right? The measure of our giving should be how much the other needs the gift, not how much the giver does not need it.

No group of people is more needy in our society than the unborn, deprived of the very right to their lives. More money is spent in this country to kill the unborn than is spent to save them. Some wealthy people contribute billions to the very groups that promote the killing.

“I ask you, how can God’s love survive in a man who has enough of this world’s goods yet closes his heart to his brother when he sees him in need?” (1John 3:17). Given that the greatest of “this world’s goods” is life itself, we can rephrase the verse: How can God’s love survive in anyone who is alive yet closes his heart to his brother who is in danger of death?

When we give out of our very need, we give life itself to others. Nowhere is that more true than when we give to the efforts to end abortion.

The first way we do that is to safeguard the most basic good each person has – life itself.

At that website you will also find the Prayer breakfast speech which she gave in Washington DC in 1994, and in which she asked, “If we allow a mother to kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other?”

Please join the Mother Teresa prayer novena at priestsforlife.org. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us and for the unborn!

Abortion is not about beliefs; it’s about bloodshed. It’s not about viewpoints, it’s about victims.

Those who need protection need it precisely because there are some who think they shouldn’t have it. When it comes to protecting the vulnerable, disagreement is an argument for action, not for sitting back and letting the violence happen simply because some think it should.

Your position on abortion also tells us what you think of government. A nation either recognizes that the right to life comes from God, or thinks that it comes from its own government. Whether a public official is actually going to vote on the legality of abortion is beside the point. Before we cast our vote for our leaders, we need to know what kind of authority they think we are giving them.

That is also why the Pope has declared that pleas that politicians make on behalf of human rights are false and illusory if they do not stand up for the right to life.

The fact is that nothing takes more human life than abortion — no crime, disease, natural disaster, war, or act of terrorism.