"What happens when people pray? God hears and he answers. He may give us exactly what we seek. Or he may give us something entirely unexpected that accomplishes his will so much better and so much more powerfully than what we'd intended that we can only stand back in awe and give thanks."
Excerpt from 40 Days for Life - Discover what God has done...Imagine what He can do by: David Bereit & Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert (p. 162)
OPEN HOURS
Wednesday, Oct. 29th - 12 a.m. - 2 people needed; 2 a.m. - 1 person needed and 3 a.m. - 1 person needed.
Thursday, Oct. 30th - 6 a.m. - 1 person needed; 7 a.m. - 1 person needed and 9 a.m. - 2 people needed.
Friday, Oct. 31st - 7 a.m. - 1 person needed; 8 a.m. - 2 people needed; 9 a.m. - 1 person needed; 7 p.m. - 1 person needed and 10 p.m. - 1 person needed.
Saturday, Nov. 1st - 1 a.m. - 1 person needed; 2 a.m. - 1 person needed; 3 a.m. - 2 people needed; 6 a.m. - 1 person needed; 11 a.m. - 1 person needed; 1 p.m. - 1 person needed; 6 p.m. - 2 people needed; 7 p.m. - 1 person needed and 9 p.m. - 1 person needed.
Sunday, Nov. 2nd - 12 a.m. - 1 person needed; 1 a.m. - 1 person needed; 2 a.m. - 1 person needed; 3 a.m. - 1 person needed; 6 a.m. - 2 people needed; 7 a.m. - 2 people needed and 8 a.m. - 2 people needed.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org.
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40 DAYS FOR LIFE CLOSING PRAYER VIGIL WITH BISHOP MORLINO will be on Sunday, Nov. 2nd at 5 p.m. at the vigil site (sidewalk outside of Planned Parenthood).
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Election Prayer for Life
By: Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
O God, we acknowledge You today as Lord,
Not only of individuals, but of nations and governments.
We thank You for the privilege
Of being able to organize ourselves politically
And of knowing that political loyalty
Does not have to mean disloyalty to You.
We thank You for Your law,
Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged
And recognized as higher than any human law.
We thank You for the opportunity that this election year
puts before us,
To exercise our solemn duty not only to vote,
But to influence countless others to vote,
And to vote correctly.
Lord, we pray that Your people may be awakened.
Let them realize that while politics is not their
salvation,
Their response to You requires that they be politically
active.
Awaken Your people to know that they are not called to be
a sect fleeing the world
But rather a community of faith renewing the world.
Awaken them that the same hands lifted up to You in prayer
Are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth;
That the same eyes that read Your Word
Are the eyes that read the names on the ballot,
And that they do not cease to be Christians
When they enter the voting booth.
Awaken Your people to a commitment to justice,
To the sanctity of marriage and the family,
To the dignity of each individual human life,
And to the truth that human rights begin when Human Lives
Begin,
And not one moment later.
Lord, we rejoice today
That we are citizens of Your kingdom.
May that make us all the more committed
To being faithful citizens on earth.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
Day 26: 40 Days for Life Open hours for this week
Day 26: 40 Days for Life Open hours for this week
"Abortion is graphic. Abortion is so graphic that, despite decades of legislation, we can hardly talk about it without stirring passion like no other issue of our time. Abortion is the most common surgical procedure in the United States, and yet the mere mention of it polarizes an office party or a Thanksgiving dinner with extended family. And there's a good reason our culture likes to keep abortion in the shadows. Outside of the context of a political debate, a judicial nomination, or even a sermon, when you're not talking about strategy or some abstract notion of morality, when you're simply considering the unadorned nature of abortion itself, then that nature is very simple: It's a practice that violently ends the life of a unique human being - a death followed by the nonchalant disposal of the body of a baby.
You don't often hear that reality discussed in the media or the back rooms where political strategies are formed. Even so, it's the elephant in the room. And it's why, despite four decades of legalization, abortion is one of the most controversial issues of our time.
When forced to acknowledge and confront the graphic nature of that death and the disposal of the body, many people have found their lives changed."
Excerpt from 40 Days for Life...Discover what God has done...Imagine what He can do (p.131) by: David Bereit and Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert
OPEN HOURS this week:
Monday, Oct. 20th - 1 needed at 3a
Tuesday, Oct, 21st - 1 needed at 4a and 1 needed at 5a.
Wednesday, Oct. 22nd - 2 needed at 12a; 1 needed at 2a and 1 needed at 3a.
Thursday, Oct. 23rd - 1 needed at 6a.
Friday, Oct. 24th - 1 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 8a; 1 needed at 9a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p; 1 needed at 6p and 1 needed at 10p.
Saturday, Oct. 25th - 1 needed at 1a; 1 needed at 2a; 2 needed at 3a; 1 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 11a; 1 needed at 1p; 1 needed at 6p; 1 needed at 7p; 1 needed at 8p and 1 needed at 9p.
Sunday, Oct. 26th - 2 needed at 12a; 2 needed at 1a; 1 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 3a; 2 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 8a; 1 needed at 10p and 2 needed at 11p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org.
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If anyone is involved in saving a mother and baby from abortion or if anyone is involved in sending anyone over to the Women's Care Center, please send an e-mail to info@vigilforlife.org so that we can share the good news with everybody!
The baby blanket in the vigil bag went missing this past week so we think that someone must have been involved in helping a mother choose life for her baby and gave her the baby blanket. However, we never heard from anyone about this. Please keep us informed.
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Pope Francis beatified Pope Paul VI today. The beatification followed the certification in May of a miracle attributed to Pope Paul VI's intercession: the healing in 2001 of an unborn child whom doctors expected to be born with a number of birth defects. The boy, now 13, is a healthy American teenager.
In 1968, Pope Paul VI wrote "Humane Vitae" ("Of Human Life"), which reaffirmed the Church's opposition to artificial birth control.
Bl. Pope Paul VI, pray for us.
"Abortion is graphic. Abortion is so graphic that, despite decades of legislation, we can hardly talk about it without stirring passion like no other issue of our time. Abortion is the most common surgical procedure in the United States, and yet the mere mention of it polarizes an office party or a Thanksgiving dinner with extended family. And there's a good reason our culture likes to keep abortion in the shadows. Outside of the context of a political debate, a judicial nomination, or even a sermon, when you're not talking about strategy or some abstract notion of morality, when you're simply considering the unadorned nature of abortion itself, then that nature is very simple: It's a practice that violently ends the life of a unique human being - a death followed by the nonchalant disposal of the body of a baby.
You don't often hear that reality discussed in the media or the back rooms where political strategies are formed. Even so, it's the elephant in the room. And it's why, despite four decades of legalization, abortion is one of the most controversial issues of our time.
When forced to acknowledge and confront the graphic nature of that death and the disposal of the body, many people have found their lives changed."
Excerpt from 40 Days for Life...Discover what God has done...Imagine what He can do (p.131) by: David Bereit and Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert
OPEN HOURS this week:
Monday, Oct. 20th - 1 needed at 3a
Tuesday, Oct, 21st - 1 needed at 4a and 1 needed at 5a.
Wednesday, Oct. 22nd - 2 needed at 12a; 1 needed at 2a and 1 needed at 3a.
Thursday, Oct. 23rd - 1 needed at 6a.
Friday, Oct. 24th - 1 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 8a; 1 needed at 9a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p; 1 needed at 6p and 1 needed at 10p.
Saturday, Oct. 25th - 1 needed at 1a; 1 needed at 2a; 2 needed at 3a; 1 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 11a; 1 needed at 1p; 1 needed at 6p; 1 needed at 7p; 1 needed at 8p and 1 needed at 9p.
Sunday, Oct. 26th - 2 needed at 12a; 2 needed at 1a; 1 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 3a; 2 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 8a; 1 needed at 10p and 2 needed at 11p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org.
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If anyone is involved in saving a mother and baby from abortion or if anyone is involved in sending anyone over to the Women's Care Center, please send an e-mail to info@vigilforlife.org so that we can share the good news with everybody!
The baby blanket in the vigil bag went missing this past week so we think that someone must have been involved in helping a mother choose life for her baby and gave her the baby blanket. However, we never heard from anyone about this. Please keep us informed.
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Pope Francis beatified Pope Paul VI today. The beatification followed the certification in May of a miracle attributed to Pope Paul VI's intercession: the healing in 2001 of an unborn child whom doctors expected to be born with a number of birth defects. The boy, now 13, is a healthy American teenager.
In 1968, Pope Paul VI wrote "Humane Vitae" ("Of Human Life"), which reaffirmed the Church's opposition to artificial birth control.
Bl. Pope Paul VI, pray for us.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
40 Days for Life OPEN HOURS for this week
"Women seldom initiate first contact with prayer volunteers at a 40 Days for Life vigil - their boyfriends or husbands do. Some are quick to defend what they are doing, even before the volunteers have asked them a question. Justification and rationalization are verbalized far more often by the men driving than by the pregnant women, especially when they see other men standing and praying. And when one of those fathers has locked eyes with me. I have often sensed aggressive defensiveness.
I confess, I've had to wrestle with my own attitudes toward these men. Sometimes, especially in my first few years on these vigils, seeing a boyfriend casually walk his girlfriend into an abortion facility often sparked anger in me. Other men praying on the front lines have confessed the same feeling. Abortion can be devastating for women, yet so often the fathers try to downplay it, acting as if it's no big deal. But one thing became clear to me during my college years, even though many young men seem to not yet be aware of it: Abortion hurts men as well as women."
Shawn Carney in 40 Days for Life - Discover what God has done...Imagine what He can do (p. 105) by David Bereit & Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert
OPEN HOURS
Monday, 10/13 - 1 needed at 7p.
Wednesday, 10/15 - 1 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 3a; 1 needed at 5a; and 1 needed at 3p.
Thursday, 10/16 - 1 needed at 6a; 1 needed 7a; 1 needed at 11a; and 1 needed at 6p.
Friday, 10/17 - 1 needed at 7a; 2 needed at 8a; and 1 needed at 10p.
Saturday, 10/18 - 2 needed at 1a; 2 needed at 2a; 2 needed at 3a; 1 needed at 6a; 1 needed at 1p; 2 needed at 6p; 1 needed at 7p; 1 needed at 8p and 1 needed at 9p.
Sunday, 10/19 - 2 needed at 12a; 2 needed at 1a; 1 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 3a; 2 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 8a; 2 needed at 9a; 2 needed at 10p and 2 needed at 11p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org.
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Our 40 Days for Life mid-point candle light prayer vigil led by Fr. Eric Sternberg will be on Tuesday, 10/14/14 at 6:15p.m. on the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood. Please join us to praise God for how He has worked through this 40 Days for Life campaign and to "stir into flame the gift of God that you have" (2 Timothy 1:6).
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I confess, I've had to wrestle with my own attitudes toward these men. Sometimes, especially in my first few years on these vigils, seeing a boyfriend casually walk his girlfriend into an abortion facility often sparked anger in me. Other men praying on the front lines have confessed the same feeling. Abortion can be devastating for women, yet so often the fathers try to downplay it, acting as if it's no big deal. But one thing became clear to me during my college years, even though many young men seem to not yet be aware of it: Abortion hurts men as well as women."
Shawn Carney in 40 Days for Life - Discover what God has done...Imagine what He can do (p. 105) by David Bereit & Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert
OPEN HOURS
Monday, 10/13 - 1 needed at 7p.
Wednesday, 10/15 - 1 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 3a; 1 needed at 5a; and 1 needed at 3p.
Thursday, 10/16 - 1 needed at 6a; 1 needed 7a; 1 needed at 11a; and 1 needed at 6p.
Friday, 10/17 - 1 needed at 7a; 2 needed at 8a; and 1 needed at 10p.
Saturday, 10/18 - 2 needed at 1a; 2 needed at 2a; 2 needed at 3a; 1 needed at 6a; 1 needed at 1p; 2 needed at 6p; 1 needed at 7p; 1 needed at 8p and 1 needed at 9p.
Sunday, 10/19 - 2 needed at 12a; 2 needed at 1a; 1 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 3a; 2 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 8a; 2 needed at 9a; 2 needed at 10p and 2 needed at 11p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org.
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Our 40 Days for Life mid-point candle light prayer vigil led by Fr. Eric Sternberg will be on Tuesday, 10/14/14 at 6:15p.m. on the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood. Please join us to praise God for how He has worked through this 40 Days for Life campaign and to "stir into flame the gift of God that you have" (2 Timothy 1:6).
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Friday, October 10, 2014
In Search Of: Yellow Pregnancy Helpline sign
Dear 40 Days for Life Prayer Warriors -
We are so grateful to God for sending you to the sidewalk to witness for Life during this 40 Days for Life! We are currently missing the yellow sign with the Pregnancy Helpline information on it. If you were out on the sidewalk this past week, please check your vehicle to see if it is in there. If you do find it, please bring it to the Prayer Warriors on the sidewalk.
Many thanks and many blessings,
The Vigil for Life Team
We are so grateful to God for sending you to the sidewalk to witness for Life during this 40 Days for Life! We are currently missing the yellow sign with the Pregnancy Helpline information on it. If you were out on the sidewalk this past week, please check your vehicle to see if it is in there. If you do find it, please bring it to the Prayer Warriors on the sidewalk.
Many thanks and many blessings,
The Vigil for Life Team
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
OPEN hours still this week!
OPEN hours still this week!
"Prayer is the foundation of 40 Days for Life. It was one hour of prayer around a wooden table in Texas that led to the birth of 40 Days for Life. It is prayer that moves hearts and minds. Prayer is what speaks to the thousands of women who have turned around at the very last moment before their abortion. It is prayer that opens the hearts of abortion workers and prayer that offers hope and healing to women as they leave a facility after they've had an abortion. Prayer sustains discouraged volunteers and motivates hopeful leaders to bring this campaign to their community.
Prayer is our strongest weapon. It takes the focus off ourselves and places our hope in God and his holy will. And prayer humbles us when God answers on his schedule and not ours."
David Bereit in the book 40 Days for LIfe - Discover what God has done...Imagine what He can do (p.65)
by: David Bereit & Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert
We have open hours still this week for our 24/7 prayer vigil! Please come and pray with us!
OPEN HOURS
Thursday, 10/9 - 1 person needed at 12 a.m. and 1 person needed at 1 a.m.
Friday, 10/10 - 1 person needed at 2 p.m.
Saturday, 10/11 - 2 people needed at 1 a.m.; 2 people needed at 2 a.m.; 2 people needed at 3 a.m.; 1 person needed at 6 a.m.; 1 person needed at 7 p.m. and 1 person needed at 9 p.m.
Sunday, 10/12 - 2 people needed at 12 a.m.; 2 people needed at 1 a.m.; 1 person needed at 2 a.m.; 1 person needed at 3 a.m.; 2 people needed at 6 a.m.; 2 people needed at 7 a.m., 2 people needed at 8 a.m., 1 person needed at 9 p.m. and 1 person needed at 11 p.m.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org.
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Our 40 Days for Life mid-point candle light prayer vigil led by Fr. Eric Sternberg will be on Tuesday, 10/14/14 at 6:15p.m. on the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood. Please join us to praise God for how He has worked through this 40 Days for Life campaign and to "stir into flame the gift of God that you have" (2 Timothy 1:6).
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Thank you so much for coming to the sidewalk to pray, to witness for life and for Christ!
Be assured of my prayers for you,
Gwen Finnegan
"Prayer is the foundation of 40 Days for Life. It was one hour of prayer around a wooden table in Texas that led to the birth of 40 Days for Life. It is prayer that moves hearts and minds. Prayer is what speaks to the thousands of women who have turned around at the very last moment before their abortion. It is prayer that opens the hearts of abortion workers and prayer that offers hope and healing to women as they leave a facility after they've had an abortion. Prayer sustains discouraged volunteers and motivates hopeful leaders to bring this campaign to their community.
Prayer is our strongest weapon. It takes the focus off ourselves and places our hope in God and his holy will. And prayer humbles us when God answers on his schedule and not ours."
David Bereit in the book 40 Days for LIfe - Discover what God has done...Imagine what He can do (p.65)
by: David Bereit & Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert
We have open hours still this week for our 24/7 prayer vigil! Please come and pray with us!
OPEN HOURS
Thursday, 10/9 - 1 person needed at 12 a.m. and 1 person needed at 1 a.m.
Friday, 10/10 - 1 person needed at 2 p.m.
Saturday, 10/11 - 2 people needed at 1 a.m.; 2 people needed at 2 a.m.; 2 people needed at 3 a.m.; 1 person needed at 6 a.m.; 1 person needed at 7 p.m. and 1 person needed at 9 p.m.
Sunday, 10/12 - 2 people needed at 12 a.m.; 2 people needed at 1 a.m.; 1 person needed at 2 a.m.; 1 person needed at 3 a.m.; 2 people needed at 6 a.m.; 2 people needed at 7 a.m., 2 people needed at 8 a.m., 1 person needed at 9 p.m. and 1 person needed at 11 p.m.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org.
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Our 40 Days for Life mid-point candle light prayer vigil led by Fr. Eric Sternberg will be on Tuesday, 10/14/14 at 6:15p.m. on the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood. Please join us to praise God for how He has worked through this 40 Days for Life campaign and to "stir into flame the gift of God that you have" (2 Timothy 1:6).
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Thank you so much for coming to the sidewalk to pray, to witness for life and for Christ!
Be assured of my prayers for you,
Gwen Finnegan
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
SAVED from Abortion!
SAVED yesterday (9/30/14)-Mother, Father and baby from abortion! Prayer Warriors were able to direct the young couple headed to Planned Parenthood over to the Women's Care Center this morning! They said , "Yes" to life for their baby! Thanks be to God! Please keep them in your prayers!
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