40 YEARS....

    

"Only with prayer - prayer that storms the heavens for justice and mercy, prayer that cleanses our hearts and souls - will the culture of death that surrounds us today be replaced with a culture of life." -US Bishops

Prayer for Today: 

Intercessions For the doctors, nurses and counselors who now know they were wrong in cooperating with abortion: may God grant them the courage to renounce their involvement in the abortion industry and open their hearts to doing his will from now on. Our Father, 3 Hail Mary's, Glory Be

Reflection    Today, on this 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we consider the past four decades in which our society has legally permitted abortion, wandering far from God. Instead of accepting children in joy and hope, our culture is lost in a barren place marked by rejection of others, sorrow and despair. Yet, like Abraham, whom we hear about in today's first reading, Christians must "hold fast to the hope that lies before us," trusting in faith that Christ makes all things new. With Mary's intercession, let us pray that our nation becomes a place where every child is welcomed with joy, as an irreplaceable gift from our Creator.

Acts of Reparation (choose one) Go to an abortion clinic and pray, or set aside an hour today to pray for those who are struggling with a decision of life or death for their unborn child. Pray the Rosary today for someone who has hurt or disappointed you, and ask for the grace to forgive that person. Instead of donating "old clothes," offer to buy a piece of clothing or item a charity is seeking.

Did you know? Planned Parenthood personnel have aborted over 5,300,000 children since 1970. That's equal to the entire population of Colorado. In 2009, 97.6 percent of Planned Parenthood's "services" for pregnant women involved killing their children, and only 2.4 percent involved prenatal care or adoption referral Prolife Quotes:  "I have noticed that everyone that is for abortion is already alive." -President Ronald Reagan  "Life is beautiful and life is from God! This is the most basic message we proclaim....... ....   to build a society that promotes the dignity of every human life no matter how weak...   If the child in the womb has no right to live, then no one does. If the child in the womb has no human dignity, then no one does. " -Archbishop Jose Gomez  "The whole of society must defend the right to life of the child conceived and the true good of the woman who will never, in any circumstance, be able to find fulfillment in the decision of abortion."- Pope Benedict XVI "A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope".  - Blessed Pope John Paul II "How can there be too many children? That's like saying there are too many flowers." -Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."  - Matrin Luther King, Jr "In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth." -F. LaGard Smith  "What irony that a society confronted with plastic bags filled with remains of aborted babies would be more concerned about the problem of recycling the bags."      - Winifred Egan Pro-Life Sites:  http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers/prolife-prayers.cfm http://old.usccb.org/prolife/index.shtml http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/abortion/index.cfm http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=41411 http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=41452 \ http://www.ewtn.com/prolife/