Sunday, January 19, 2014

9 Days to Life - Day One


This week marks the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  I don't know about you, but this video made me cry.  The March for Life and the March for Life West Coast are taking place, but many of us cannot attend.  However, you can do something!  Participate with me in the 9 Days for Life, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.  Everyday for the next 9 days, I will provide the link to the prayers/activities for each day of the novena.  (For those who might not be familiar with the prayer form, a novena is 9 consecutive days of focused prayer, usually for a specific intention.)  It's OK if you start after I do.  (I'm already a day late getting started, so add one day to the dates on the USCCB website.)  A novena can be started at any time.

The complete novena prayers for the first day of the novena can be found HERE

It seems so hopeless that we can end this holocaust of our most vulnerable.  Job was a man who knew despair and hopelessness.  When all seemed lost and it looked like God was not there for him, Job refused to succumb to despair:

Job 19:1, 23-27a

Then Job answered and said: Oh, would that my words were written down!
Would that they were inscribed in a record:
That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever!
But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust
Whom I myself shall see: my own eyes, not another's shall behold him
And from my flesh I shall see God
My inmost being is consumed with longing.

Please join me on the 9 Days for Life and let's pray to end the destruction of more generations.

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