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Gulf Pine Catholic • March 29, 2024 7 As we prepare to celebrate Easter, we join in prayer and solidarity with the cat- echumens who will enter into the Church on Holy Saturday as they profess their faith, are baptized, commit themselves to Christ and His Church, receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, and receive the Body and Blood of Jesus for the first time. It is the spirit of the Risen Jesus and the promise of the Resurrection that they will receive, that same spirit that many of us have already received through the Sacraments of Initiation. That spirit of the Risen Jesus is given to them as the Sprit has been given to us. As a result, together we share in the life and love of Jesus Christ risen from the dead. Yes, He is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Amen! Alleluia! Happy Easter! SEE BISHOP’S COLUMN IN SPANISH, PAGE 4 Bishop’s Column From page 3 Through IVF, we create an “exploitable subclass” -- those who, although they are just as human as the rest of us, are unjustly instrumentalized and dehumanized by being brought into the world in a manner distinct from the rest of us. This sub- class is produced and subjugated through human craftiness and scheming, instead of arriving as free and undeserved gifts through the bodily self-surrender and fruit- ful spousal love of the marital embrace. For those interested in understanding these issues more completely, I have recently produced two full-length, professionally-filmed videos on YouTube and Vimeo , entitled “The Struggle of Infertility” and “Why is IVF Wrong?” They are available at: https://www.youtube.com/ @FatherTad/videos or https://vimeo.com/ bioethicsvideos. Let us hope that the Alabama court’s decision will provide the impetus for some serious soul-searching about the ongoing calamity of IVF in our society. Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, MA, and serves as Senior Ethicist at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org and www.fathertad.com. Bioethics From page 6 For the good of the people of God in the Diocese of Biloxi, Bishop Louis F. Kihneman, III, has made the following appointment: Father Henry B. McInerney has been appointed to serve as Vicar for Retired Priests, effective immediately. Given at the Diocesan Pastoral Center in Biloxi on March 14, 2024. ? Most Reverend Louis F. Kihneman, III Bishop of Biloxi Official Appointment Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (Prayer for Peace) Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.