The battle ground can seem impossible, but Jesus says faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains. The battle begins with life at conception, because if we can’t get that piece right nothing else will matter. Since 1973 in the Supreme Court decision, of Roe V Wade, almost 61,000,000 children have perished in our country alone through abortion. I did the math and that is like wiping out the whole population of Columbus Ohio 56 times! That’s one baby in every 23 seconds. And in the span of this 20 minute Mass so far, almost 50 children will have been murdered. I love the story of Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaking at a National prayer breakfast in 1994, in the presence of the President and Vice President of the United States, all of whom supported abortion on demand. She fearlessly said, “the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - it is a direct killing of the innocent child- murdered by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another.” Mother Teresa continued after she said this is not love, when a mother can kill her own child, she addressed the fathers and said, “the father is told he does not have to take any responsibility for the child he has brought into the world. But that he can take any type of violence to get whatever he wants.” The next year Mother Teresa traveled to a hospital in Boston, and she entered the sick children’s ward, where she picked up a sick infant and went straight outside in front of television cameras, she said slowly and deliberately, “Jesus said that whoever receives a little childlike this in my name receives me!” We can no longer look the other way. We must all get involved in respecting life at all stages from conception to natural death.