VFL email 6.15.2014

In today’s first reading, Moses pleads with God to be compassionate to the Israelites, “…This is indeed a stiff-necked people, yet pardon our wickedness and sins and receive us as your own.” (Exodus 34: 9) Just as Moses asked for God’s mercy to be shown to his people, we pray that God will “have mercy on us and on the whole world.”

Please bring your prayer of the Divine Mercy Chaplet to the sidewalk this week.

 

OPEN HOURS

 

Tuesday, June 17th – 94% filled on this Abortion Day – 12p.m. – 1 person needed.

 

Wednesday, June 18th – 90% filled on this Abortion Day – 1 needed at 10a.m. and 1 needed at 12p.m.

 

All other days and hours for the week are filled!  Thanks be to God!

 

To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview

 

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STORIES FROM THE SIDEWALK

 

On Tuesday, June 10th, one of our morning prayer warriors was able to speak to a young couple who were heading into Planned Parenthood.  With the help of our prayer warrior – the young couple decided instead to go over to the Women’s Care Center.  Praise God!  They left the Women’s Care Center smiling and laughing with each other.  Please keep this young couple in prayer.

 

On Thursday, June 12th, our prayer warriors discovered that Planned Parenthood was CLOSED FOR THE DAY!  It was such a beautiful day!  Our prayer warriors were able to send about six young women who were trying to go to Planned Parenthood to the Women’s Care Center.  We are so grateful to God for:  PP being closed for the day; for the Women’s Care Center being right across the street from PP and for LIFE!

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“Ocean to Ocean Campaign in Defense of Life” pilgrimage to visit Madison

 

After traveling 40,000 miles through 24 European nations, the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, already viewed by millions and venerated by hundreds of thousands of Christians, landed on the shores of America in August 2013 for the next leg of an historic pilgrimage in the movement to build a Culture of Life.

 

The Black Madonna, a replica of the original in Jasna Gora monastery in Poland, was received at a ceremony on Saturday, August 24, 2013 on St. Clement’s Island, Maryland – the exact site of the first landing of Catholic pilgrims in the American British colonies of the 17th century. Tradition holds that the original icon of the Black Madonna was painted by St. Luke on a cypress table used by the Holy Family.

 

The Human Life International-sponsored “Ocean to Ocean Pilgrimage in Defense of Life” will visit Madison on Thursday, June 19th, 2014.   The Black Madonna will be on the sidewalk outside of Planned Parenthood on Orin Road for a 3 p.m. prayer vigil and at a 7 p.m. Mass with Father Peter West of Human Life International as Celebrant at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monona.

 

For more information on the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa go to:

 

www.hli.org/hli_campaigns/ocean-ocean-pilgrimage/

 

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Prayer to Mary, Mother of the Life Within

By: Priests for Life

 

O Mary, Mother of the Life Within,

all life we entrust to you;

The life of every expectant mother

and the child within her womb:

The life of every human body,

the life of every human soul;

The life of every newborn child

and the life of all grown old.

You held the Lord to your own heart

and drew Him in so close.

So draw us close now in all our needs,

O Mother of the Life Within.

Amen.