Dear Friends of LIFE,

Thank you for your witness, dedication to standing for LIFE and to giving a voice to the voiceless.

If you are new to 40 Days for Life this year or if it’s been a few years since you’ve been to the sidewalk to pray for an end to abortion, please review our Rules of the Road and Madison Field Guide documents. These documents will help familiarize you with our mission and with how we work during 40 Days for Life.

Here are the links for them:

vigilforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/40-DFL-Rules-of-The-Road-FINAL-15-SEPT-2017.pdf

vigilforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-Field-Guide-WCC-Highlights.pdf

Many blessings,

The Team at Vigil for Life

Dear Pro Life Men –

Let us prepare ourselves in prayer for the start of 40 Days for Life TODAY, asking for the Holy Spirit to inspire and strengthen us!

Let us pray,

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

You, on those who evermore You confess and You Adore, in Your sevenfold gift, Descend; Give Them Comfort when they die; Give them Life with You on high; Give them joys which never end. Amen

Come, O Divine Spirit, fill my heart with Thy heavenly fruits, Thy charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, faith, mildness, and temperance, that I may never weary in the service of God, but by continued faithful submission to Thy inspiration may merit to be united eternally with Thee in the love of the Father and the Son. Amen. 

We ask the Holy Spirit to guide and animate this fall’s 40 Days for Life from start to finish. May it be only for God’s glory. May it be an act of love toward our neighbors. May our prayer, fasting and witness please our Lord and Savior. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

To be a part of this life-saving campaign, go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen at (608)393-8545.

Let us prepare ourselves in prayer for the start of 40 Days for Life (in 2 days!), asking the Holy Spirit to inspire and strengthen us!

Let us pray,

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.  Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.  And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Bend the stubborn heart and will, melt the frozen warm the chill.  Guide the steps that go astray!

Come, O Spirit of Wisdom, reveal to my soul the mysteries of heavenly things, their exceeding greatness, power and beauty.  Teach me to love them above and beyond all the passing joys and satisfactions of earth. Help me to attain them and process them for ever.  Amen.

To be a part of this life-saving campaign, go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen at (608)393-8545.

Let us prepare ourselves in prayer for the start of 40 Days for Life (in 3 days!), asking for the Holy Spirit to inspire and strengthen us!

Let us pray,

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.  Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.  And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Heal our wounds — our strength renews; On our dryness pour Thy dew, Wash the stains of guilt away.

Come, O Spirit of Counsel, help and guide me in all my ways, that I may always do Thy holy will.  Incline my heart to that which is good; turn it away from all that is evil, and direct me by the straight path of Thy commandments to that goal of eternal life for which I long.  Amen.

To be a part of this life-saving campaign, go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen at (608)393-8545.

Dear Friends of Vigil for Life –

Our 2017 40 Days for Life Kick-off event is at 6 p.m. on Monday, September 25  (that’s tomorrow!) at Holy Name Heights (a.k.a. Bishop O’Connor Center).  You won’t want to miss this because our guest speaker is Eric Scheidler!!

Eric Scheidler is the Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League, founded in 1980

by his father, veteran pro-life leader Joe Scheidler, to fight abortion through non-violent

direct action. He is the oldest of the seven Scheidler children.

Eric holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in

English studies from the University of Georgia. From 1998 to 2002, he served as assistant

director of The GIFT Foundation, an organization devoted to enriching Christian

marriage.

Since August 2007, Eric has headed the grassroots pro-life group Fox Valley Families

Against Planned Parenthood, which is dedicated to shutting down the largest abortion

facility in the Midwest, opened in Aurora, Illinois under a cloud of deception and

controversy. He consults regularly with activists across the country on fighting Planned

Parenthood at the local level.

In 2012, Eric co-directed a nationwide series of Stand Up for Religious Freedom rallies

in opposition to the Obamacare HHS Mandate, which forces employer health plans to

provide free contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. He continues to work with the

hundreds of local leaders recruited for that effort on other pro-life initiatives, including

the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, held annually on the third

Saturday of September since 2013.

Most recently, Eric has expanded and mobilized his nationwide network of local pro-life

leaders as one of the three national co-directors of ProtestPP, a coalition of pro-life

groups formed to protest Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in aborted fetal tissue and

boost the pro-life presence at their abortion facilities going forward.

Eric speaks frequently on pro-life issues to audiences around the United States and internationally. He lives in Aurora, Illinois with his wife April and their eight children.

We hope to see you there!!!

– The Team at Vigil for Life

Dear Friends of Vigil for Life –

OPEN HOURS

Let us prepare ourselves in prayer for the start of 40 Days for Life (in 4 days!), asking for the Holy Spirit to inspire and strengthen us!

Let us pray,

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.  And You shall renew the face of the earth.

If Thou take Thy grace away, nothing pure in man will stay, All his good is turn’d to ill.

Come, O Spirit of Understanding, and enlighten our minds, that we may know and believe all the mysteries of salvation; and may merit at last to see the eternal light in Thy Light; and in the light of glory to have a clear vision of Thee and the Father and the Son.  Amen.

To be a part of this life-saving campaign, go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen at (608)393-8545.

Let us prepare ourselves in prayer for the start of 40 Days for Life (in 5 days!), asking for the Holy Spirit to inspire and strengthen us!

Let us pray,

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.  Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.  And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Light Immortal! Light Divine! Visit Thou these hearts of Thine, And our inmost being fill!

Come, O Blessed Spirit of Fortitude, uphold my soul in times of trouble and adversity, sustain my efforts after holiness, strengthen my weakness, give me courage against all the assaults of my enemies, that I may never be overcome and separated from Thee, my God and greatest Good.  Amen.

Let us prepare ourselves in prayer for the start of 40 Days for Life (in 6 days!), asking for the Holy Spirit to inspire and strengthen us!

Let us pray,

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.  Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.  And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Thou in toil art comfort sweet, Pleasant coolness in the heat, solace in the midst of woe.

Come, O Blessed Spirit of Knowledge, and grant that I may perceive the will of the Father; show me the nothingness of earthly things, that I may realize their vanity and use them only for Thy glory and my own salvation, looking ever beyond them to Thee, and Thy eternal rewards. Amen.

To be a part of this life-saving campaign, go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen at (608)393-8545.