01/20/2024
This perhaps will be one if not my last posting on this channel. Age at 86 has slowed me down to a crawl along with the arthritis and partial sight loss.
This week has been full of pro-life features on EWTN and other friendly channels. Repeats can be seen via youtube on the EWTN channel. Or the complete March for Life in Washington on EWTN.com.
The homily of the closing Vigil Mass the Bishop seemingly urged for pro-life people especially the young to keep up the good works and never to be discouraged.
He told of a story about his father that I was relating to my son and it brought up in the conversation another story. "Save one child and Save the world". Couldn't but help to think of Herod and Jesus. The Story is about Nicolas Winton who is credited with saving 659 Jewish children prior to or the beginning of the Second World war with the Nazi's. It's a long story but one that is current and my son tells me a movie is being made of his heroic life, yet humble and almost forgotten if had not been the discovery of a diary.
He had a special night in which he as being honored, and his reply was that he only did what had to be done. Sitting beside him in the audience were two of the children he help save. After the emcee introduced him and his feat, he ask if anyone else in the audience were possibly saved by him. The whole audience stood up to thank the man who saved their lives. It is needless to say that those 659 children who have grown and married and had families are their own have multiplied and owe a debt of gratitude to Nicolas. Yes "Save one child, Save the World."
For me I was deeply touched by his humility and doing only what was right. So it is with pro-life people especially the young ones to take up the banner and keep up the challenge and never lose sight of the goal to save even just one child.