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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