40 Days for Life Day 19 intention by Rev. Rob Schenck, president of Faith and Action
We pray for a renewal of our zeal to offer generous help to the unborn and their families.
Scripture
If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant when they complained against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him? Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
— Job 31:13-15
Reflection from Rev. Rob Schenck
The ground is level as we stand before God.
Job lived with an awe provoking sense of God’s expectation of him, particularly regarding his obligation to care for the weak and needy.
He knew that in God’s economy everyone stands on level ground when it comes to our status as God’s creatures. Because of that central truth, we must take care of each other.
Job also knew that he didn’t deserve any of the good things God gave to him. Instead, those blessings came to Job from God’s benevolent heart.
As an extension of that knowledge, Job instinctively linked his obligation to be generous to others to God’s kindness toward him.
As in Jesus’ parable of the unmerciful servant (Matthew 18:23-35), Job knew that it is an egregious sin to deny to others what we enjoy ourselves.
He actually calls down on his own head severe condemnation and even punishment should he fail to share with others out of his own abundance (see verses 16-23).
Proverbs 3:27 reads, “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.” Some things are so obvious that we don’t even need to pray except to ask of God forgiveness and the power to do what so obviously needs doing.
TURN AWAY ON FRIDAY, 10/9 – A young woman got out of her car and was headed into Planned Parenthood when a sidewalk counselor called out to her and let her know about the Woman’s Care Center across the street. The woman thanked the sidewalk counselor for the information but still went inside PP. About 2 minutes later, she came out and got in the car. She and the person with her drove over to the Woman’s Care Center. So grateful to God!
OPEN HOURS THIS WEEK
Monday, 10/12 – 1 needed at 9p and 1 needed at 11p.
Tuesday, 10/13 – 2 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 5a; 1 needed at 8a; 2 needed at 8p and 1 needed at 11p.
Thursday, 10/15 – 1 needed at 12a; 1 needed at 1a; 1 needed at 4a; 2 needed at 5a; 1 needed at 6a; 1 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 9a; 1 needed at 10a and 1 needed at 3p.
Friday, 10/16 – 1 needed at 2a; 1 needed at 3a; 1 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 9a; 1 needed at 4p; 2 needed at 5p; 1 needed at 6p and 1 needed at 7p.
Saturday, 10/17 – 1 needed at 11a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p and 1 needed at 9p.
Sunday, 10/18 – 2 needed at 4a; 2 needed at 5a; 2 needed at 6a; 2 needed at 7a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 10p and 1 needed at 11p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen at (608)393-8545.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
40 DAYS FOR LIFE MID-POINT PRAYER VIGIL AND 2ND DEFUND/PROTEST PP RALLY
Thank you to all of you who have participated in 40 Days for Life in Madison thus far in the campaign. Join us for our mid-point prayer vigil to thank God for the gift of LIFE and to ask for strength to keep going on Monday, October 12th at 11:30 a.m. on the sidewalk outside of Planned Parenthood, 3706 Orin Rd., Madison. Fr. Scott Jablonski, parochial vicar at St. Henry’s and St. Bernard’s in Watertown, WI will lead this prayer vigil.
Immediately following our mid-point prayer vigil we will host our 2nd Defund Planned Parenthood rally. This rally is to bring the general public to awareness as to what has been exposed in the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. (www.centerformedicalprogress.org) These videos expose Planned Parenthood’s part in the trafficking of aborted babies body parts.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Prayer
God, forgive us when we try to explain away the obligation we have to help others who need help.
Enable us to not devalue them because they are in the circumstance that they are in, but to see them for what they are, those, who like us, were formed by your hand in their mother’s womb. Amen.
