The maternal mission is also the basis of a particular responsibility. The mother is appointed guardian of life. It is her task to accept it with care, encouraging the human being’s first dialogue with the world, which is carried out precisely in the symbiosis with the mother’s body. It is here that history of every human being begins… with an exclusive and unmistakable plan of life.
-Blessed John Paul II, Angelus message, July 16, 1995-
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I write about this theme in Chapter 8 of Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious.
