In Thanksgiving...

Dear Friends,

As you join family and friends this week in thanksgiving for the many blessings God has granted to you and your loved ones, pray for your fellow Vigil for Life family members as well: 

• Give thanks to the Holy Spirit for touching and stirring so many hearts to come out and pray at Planned Parenthood during the rigorous, but successful, 24/7 campaign of 40 Days for Life. 
• Give thanks for the babies saved in answer to these prayers and for their parents who will not regret.
• Give thanks for the hearts moved after witnessing Vigil for Life warriors who pray on regardless of time, temperature, and weather.
• Give thanks for patience, knowing this is God's work even though many hours are often met with trial and disappointment.
• Give thanks for fortitude, knowing you are acting out of love and obedience to Our Lord's will.

Then ask that the success and blessings granted during 40 Days for Life continue in Vigil for Life's 365 for Life campaign:

• Ask the Holy Spirit to keep in our minds the images, the reasons we spend many hours out there in prayer - "Too many tears at Planned Parenthood today. Some of them mine. I have a hard time not responding that way, when witnessing young women, one after another, limp to cars, get in the passenger or back seat, curl into a ball and cry.....And, especially as the young women look into my eyes pleadingly, as if begging me to make the pain stop." (A partial quote from a prayer volunteer this past week.  By the way, she felt she may have changed another woman's mind by being out there that day!)
•  Pray for perseverance, that one day you might hear words similar to these spoken to a sidewalk counselor on Friday after prompting a mother to go across the street to the Women's Care Center.  As she headed to her car after her visit, she called out, "Things went very well; I guess it pays to stand out in the cold!" Sounds like a baby saved that day to me!
• Pray that more will sign up for hours; for it is through prayer that this holocaust, the greatest civil rights issue of our time, will finally end.

"Amen, I say to you:  Whatever you did for one of the least of my brethren, you did it for me, says the Lord."  Mt 25:10

Open Hours - Please Step Up and Continue To Fight for Life!

Monday, 11/25/13:  100% filled!  Praise God!

Tuesday, 11/26/13:  2 needed at 11:00, noon, and4:00pm; 1 needed at 9:00, 10:00am, 2:00, and3:00pm  Only 38% filled ON THIS ABORTION DAY!

Wednesday, 11/27/13:  2 needed at 1:00 and 5:00pm;  1 needed at 10:00, 11:00, noon, 2:00,3:00, and 4:00pm  Only 50% filled ON THIS ABORTION DAY! 

Thursday, 11/28/13:  Thanksgiving Day - Planned Parenthood will be closed but stop and pray if you can.

Friday, 11/29/13:  1 needed at 1:00 and 2:00pm

We need your continued commitment to pray and witness for an hour a week, an hour every two weeks, or an hour a month - whatever you can do....but please don't forget about this need. 

"In arid times, when duty seems difficult and daily responsibilities have no attraction, when all spiritual consolation is denied us and the beautiful light that illumines life is veiled, in these times humble prayer alone can steady us and give us hour by hour and day by day the determination to act "against our will.""  (Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur)

Go to www.vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview to sign up for hours or email info@vigilforlife.org.

Reminder:  Respect Life Retreat This Weekend!

This will be your last chance to sign up for the Respect Life Retreat this Friday, 11/29, and Saturday 11/30. Don't miss out on this special time of reflection and prayer with Retreat Master Father Eric Nielsen, the Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Vigil for Life prayer warriors.

Be sure to get your reservation in soon for this wonderful pro-life retreat at beautiful Durward's Glen near Baraboo, WI! This event will offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Eucharistic Adoration, the Liturgy of the Hours, silent prayer and time for personal reflection. See: www.durwardsglen.org/ for more information about Durwards Glen.

The cost per person is $65 and checks may be made payable to “The Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe” (Financial assistance may be made available for those in need). Please call Jen Dunnett at 715-340-2779 or email her at vitapretiosa@gmail.com to reserve your place.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!