ANNOUNCING: MARCH FOR LIFE – MADISON!!
Please join a March for Life in Madison on Monday, Jan. 22. We will begin with Holy Mass at 12:10 PM at St. Patrick’s (404 E. Main St, Madison). Following the Mass we will march around the Capitol then go inside for prayer and then visit each legislator with the message that all life is precious from conception to natural death.
This event is sponsored by St. Maria Goretti Parish in conjunction with the Diocese of Madison and the Cathedral Parish.
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:5
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Praise to You, Lord God!
You have become one of us — You have become a human being, while still retaining all your power and holiness as God!
You, O Lord, made the journey of the unborn child. By being an embryo, a fetus, and a newborn, you joined all unborn and newborn children to you!
From the beginning of history, O Lord, You were the Creator of every human life. Now, with Christmas, You join Yourself in an unthinkable way with the life You created.
Let this Christmas, O God, fill all of us with awe and wonder at how close human life is to You. Cleanse the world of all that tarnishes and rejects this gift. Purify our hearts of all that fears this gift.
Let our Christmas joy be the joy of welcoming every human life! Amen!
Hurry! The Lord is near! Soon Advent will come to a close and we will celebrate the birth of our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ. It is always sad to think of the reality of abortion and how it ends a human life. It is especially sad to contemplate this reality during this joyous time of year. Yet, we must as abortions will be happening at Planned Parenthood in Madison this week before Holy Christmas and the week after and on into the New Year.
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This past week we saw, at least, one young family head over to the Women’s Care Center instead of going into Planned Parenthood due to the encouragement of sidewalk counselors. If sidewalk counselors were not present, who knows if they would have gone over there.
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This past week there were two turn aways from PP that were reported. One young woman was there looking forbirth control and was told by one of our sidewalk counselors that this particular PP is an abortion only facility. The young woman immediately left upon hearing that information. She did not go inside of PP. Another young woman had just come out of PP and spoke with one of our sidewalk counselors at the driveway as she was leaving the parking lot. She said she wanted to have her baby! Praise God! She went straight over to the Women’s Care Center from PP after hearing about it from our sidewalk counselor.
Dear Friends of Vigil for Life –
We still need your witness for LIFE tomorrow, Thursday, 11/30:
1 needed at 11a; 1 needed at 12p and 1 needed 2p
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/
Two of the voices from SILENT NO MORE (from 40 Days for Life – Discover what God has done… Imagine what He can do. By: David Bereit and Shawn Carney with Cindy Lambert):
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There was, at least, one young mother sent over to the Women’s Care Center last week. It was reported to have happened on Friday. Praise God!
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A Pro-life Prayer for Thanksgiving Day by Priests for Life
Our thanksgiving is not only a duty,
But a joy and a source of strength,
We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Praise God that this past Friday our sidewalk counselors were able to send a young couple over to the Women’s Care Center and they were also able to witness to some members of a street maintenance crew that were working on the street in front of PP as they asked our sidewalk counselors what they were doing there.
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Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever,
Amen.
Thank you to all who took part in this year’s 40 Days for Life campaign! You are all answers to prayers that have been prayed before this 40 Days for Life campaign and all of the way through it. Thank you for listening to God speaking in your hearts and for coming to the sidewalk to take part in this 40 Days for Life campaign.
For this 2017 fall 40 Days for Life campaign, there were around 375 locations and around 25 countries that took part. Since the start of it, there have been 480 babies and their mothers saved from abortion (that we know of). On October 31st, a call was received from one of our sidewalk counselors to let us know that a sidewalk counselor visiting from out of town was able to reach out to a young mother and father who were considering abortion. She was able to send them over to the Women’s Care Center and they reported back that they chose LIFE for their baby! Part of this scenario most likely happens so much more than we know. Most often we do not get any feedback from the mothers who we send, through God’s grace, over to the Women’s Care Center. We do know that more women who go to the Women’s Care Center choose life for their babies than not. Right now, the Women’s Care Center is serving around 180 pregnant mothers.
I would like to give special recognition to people without whom this 40 Days for Life would have fallen flat:
Mary Markielewski, our Vigil Captain coordinator. If an hour was not filled and we couldn’t find anyone to fill it, Mary did. At last count, Mary was at around 75 hours on the sidewalk during this campaign. God bless you Mary!
John Bohn, our sign in sheet coordinator and organization guru. He made sure the sign in sheets were well organized and out for all to sign. John also stepped up to fill a lot of open hours and helps us to see humor in all situations.
All of our Vigil Day Captains who made endless calls to “rally the troops” for getting out to pray and witness and foroften getting out to the sidewalk to fill hours themselves: Olivia Bohn, Jan Hess, Ken Pientka, Bette Weisshaar, Katie Mueller and Kathleen Terry.
Bryan Kust, Vern Acker and Huan Hoang were real Godsends as they filled lots of our unfilled overnight hours!
Others high up in hours were: Joe Nicosia, Karen Wagner, Don Hudzinski, Judy Hoffman and Alan Mahinski.
We had 13 parishes that committed to weekly hours during this campaign and 6 K of C Councils that did the same.
Thank you all so much for the gift or your prayers and time. We also want to thank all of the spouses and families fortheir sacrifices of having one or more family members giving so much time to 40 Days for Life.
Of course, we will never really know how much difference our prayers and presence have made until we get to Heaven. We are assured on earth of the difference it makes when we hear the beautiful stories of the mothers and fathers who have chosen life for their babies like we heard about during this campaign. Vigil for Life is so grateful to God for all of you!
Although 40 Days for Life has ended, we still have our 365 for Life presence to keep on the sidewalk. Please sign upfor an hour this week:
Monday, Nov. 6th – 2 needed at 9a; 2 needed at 11a; 1 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p and 2 needed at 2p.
Tuesday, Nov. 7th – 1 needed at 9a and 1 needed at 2p.
Wednesday, Nov. 8th – 2 needed at 1p; 1 needed at 4p and 2 needed at 5p.
Thursday, Nov. 9th – 1 needed at 10a; 1 needed at 12p and 1 needed at 1p.
Friday, Nov. 10th – 1 needed at 9a; 1 needed at 10a; 2 needed at 11a; 2 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p and 1 needed at 2p.
To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/
Baby Silas at 2 mos. old.
