Dear Friends of Vigil for Life,
Thank you to all who have braved the snow and cold to witness for the Gospel of Life outside of Planned Parenthood in Madison. We are so grateful to God for your dedication and witness. We praise God that we have had reports of women being directed from Planned Parenthood to the Women’s Care Center every week. We have even heard from prayer warriors that some women have come back to tell them that they will be choosing LIFE for their baby. SO BEAUTIFUL!
Recently, Christian singer – Matthew West – played at a benefit concert for a Pregnancy Resource Center. After the concert, they told Matthew that they prayed that God would put a song in his heart to promote a Culture of Life. The song that came from this is UNTOLD. You can listen to it here: iamuntold.org While at the website, you can also see the rest of the project that sprung up from it. It’s all beautiful!
Please bring your love and prayers to the sidewalk this week!
OPEN HOURS
Tuesday, 2/9 – 1 needed at 11a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p; 2 needed at 2p; 2 needed at 3p and 2 needed at 4p.
Wednesday, 2/10 – 2 needed at 8a; 1 needed at 9a; 2 needed at 10a; 2 needed at 11a; 2 needed at 1p and 1 needed at 4p.
Thursday, 2/11 – 1 needed at 9a; 2 needed at 10a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 3p; 1 needed at 4p and 2 needed at 5p.
Friday, 2/12 – 1 needed at 1p and 1 needed at 2p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545.
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LENT starts on this Wednesday, 2/10. Still unsure of what to do for Lent? Sign up for a weekly hour on the sidewalk and plant seeds for a Culture of Life with your prayers!
“We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortificdation are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is GOD’s arrival that is the important event.” -Fulton J. Sheen
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Lenten Pro-life Prayer
From Priests for Life
Father of all mercy,
We thank you for this season of grace and light.
We know that sin has blinded us.
Draw us ever closer to you, in prayer and penance.
Since you, O God, are light itself,
Give all your people a clearer understanding
Of what is sin, and what is virtue.
Grant in particular that we may see, as never before,
The profound dignity of every human life,
Including the vulnerable unborn children.
Give us grace to defend
Our brothers and sisters in the womb
By our prayers, our words,
And our self-sacrificing actions.
We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
