Dear Friends of Life –
Some words from the current 40 Days for Life campaign in Green Bay: The Green Bay team recently received an appreciative note from a worker at the pregnancy help center.
“I want to thank you for all the prayers and sacrifices, especially enduring the cold weather and wind,” she wrote. “Know that there are fruits to all that you do.”
She then told of a young woman who came in for a pregnancy test last year. She broke down when she learned she was pregnant – and even after seeing the ultrasound image, she was still terribly afraid.
“I told her we would be with her all the way through it,” the counselor said, “and told her about the prayer warriors of 40 Days for Life who were praying for all mothers and their unborn babies. It was a tough pregnancy for her, but I always reminded her of the prayers being said for her.”
Not long ago, her baby was born.
“There was such joy and love in the room for that baby,” she said. “Your prayers certainly changed a heart, and a little boy not only has life, he is loved. I consider all of you godparents.”
Praise God! More good news: The Women’s Care Center in Madison is currently guiding 150 pregnant mothers through their pregnancies! Of course, we do not know how many of these 150 mothers were helped by your presence – you can be assured that your prayerful presence on the sidewalk does matter immensely!
OPEN HOURS
Tuesday, 3/8 – 2 needed at 2p; 2 needed at 3p and 2 needed at 4p.
Wednesday, 3/9 – 1 needed at 8a; 1 needed at 9a; 2 needed at 11a and 2 needed at 1p.
Thursday, 3/10 – 1 needed at 9a; 2 needed at 10a; 1 needed at 4p and 2 needed at 5p.
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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GOOD FRIDAY (3/25) STATIONS OF THE CROSS led by Fr. Richard Heilman and his Knights of Divine Mercy at 9:30 a.m. outside of Planned Parenthood, 3706 Orin Rd., Madison.
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Looking for an extra sacrifice to make for Lent? Time spent in prayer every week on the sidewalk (in the cold) planting good seeds might be your answer!
“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 mortification 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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40 HOURS FOR LIFE – From 8 p.m. on Holy Thursday to Noon on Holy Saturday – Outside Planned Parenthood, 3706 Orin Rd., Madison. To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview
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Prayer
By: Ernest Ohlhoff, Outreach Director for National Right to Life
O Lord, help us follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Let us humbly and diligently work to restore legal protection for the unborn, the disabled, the medically dependent and all innocent children of God whose lives are threatened. Let us remember the old adage that “He can never lead who has not first learned to obey.” And, Lord, grant us a peaceful heart as we labor in your name. Amen.
