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Lord of life, You created us in love and called us to live in fullness. Each person is a sacred gift that reflects Your face, from the first instant of existence to the final breath of their journey on earth.

Today we ask for the grace to recognize and protect the unique and unrepeatable value of every human being. May we learn to welcome life unconditionally; to tenderly care for fragility, to accompany each stage with respect, and to bravely defend those who have no voice.

Forgive us, Lord, when we fall into indifference or the culture of discard, when we fail to see in others a being worthy of love. Give us a new heart, always ready to choose life, and generous hands that protect it through concrete actions.

Make Your Church a living witness to the Gospel of life; an open home where every life is celebrated, where no one feels unwanted, and where dignity is always honored and protected.

Lord Jesus, may we love life as You love it: with tenderness, fidelity, and self-giving. May we proclaim, in words and actions, that every human life is worth the total gift of ourselves. Amen.

like i know this website is full of nerds who never played sports growing up but you are living in another plane of reality if you think the existence of “women’s sports” is because of misogyny. WOMEN’S SPORTS EXIST IN SPITE OF MISOGYNY. You can toss out all the examples you want of incredibly gifted women who could “beat the boys,” (women who were the best of the best) but for all intents and purposes, the end of women’s-only sports would mean the end of women in sports.

It genuinely has me shaken that Title IX is only a generation or so old - that my mother’s generation of girls was effectively barred from all team sports - and yet there are people today who are so out-of-touch with history and reality that they honestly think men “forced” women into their own sporting divisions, when in actuality it took women FIGHTING for their RIGHT to play sports, to have their own teams, to compete amongst themselves.

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