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Respect Life

Contact: Joan Mullane
342-5789

e-mail Joan

Ministry Mission Statement: Respect Life is a ministry that attempts to bring awareness within the parish to the clash between the culture of life and the culture of death.

Current Ministry Activities: On a yearly basis, the Rosary Crusade for Life is organized in our parish. Rosaries are said throughout the month of October for the end to all assaults on life. The parish count of rosaries said is added to the South Carolina statewide crusade rosary count. Our crusade culminates with an all-night vigil for life in conjunction with the Reilley Council, Knights of Columbus. Pro-life flyers are inserted in bulletins on Right to Life Sunday. Also in October, parishioners are encouraged to participate in the Life Chain at the government center in Beaufort. This is an hour-long, silent prayerful vigil in protest of the assaults on life.

In January, the month of the anniversary of the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court decision, white crosses -- one for each million abortions performed in the country – are installed in the plaza in front of St. Francis. The crosses are held earlier in the afternoon by participants in the Hilton Head Citizens for Life Rally for Life in front of the parish Thrift Shop on Route 278. They remain in place for the remainder of January. Members of the parish also participate in the South Carolina Citizens for Life Stand Up for Life rally on the State House steps in Columbia later in January and parishioners and members of the Youth Ministry also go to Washington, DC, for the January 22 March for Life.

The parish and school participate in the annual Spiritual Adoption program, held from August to May. Each month posters are displayed in the church Narthex and in the school depicting the month-to-month development of the child in the wound.

Current Volunteer Opportunities: Participants needed for all the above listed activities.

Abortion is an affliction of the heart and mind that causes the death of preborn children.  Remedy – the grace of God as gained through prayer, penance and sacrifice.  Please help fill that prescription – join the Spiritual Adoption League by praying each day for nine months for the life of an unborn child in danger of being aborted and for the parents of that particular child so that they may accept the grace and have the courage to allow the child to be born.  Although the program is nine months long, many participants pray this prayer throughout the year:

“Jesus, Mary and Joseph I love You very much.  I beg You to spare the life of the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion.”

                                                                                      Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Prayer Cards are available in the narthex.

 


   Created, Loved, Redeemed by God

Our baby is five month’s old and halfway to his birth.  He is very active.  Sleep habits develop and his mother can feel him move and stretch, particularly when she is resting.  He is getting bigger, weighing one pound and is about 12 inches “tall” and strong enough to kick hard against the outside uterine wall and dent it.  Some day he may play soccer!  Up to now, although he swam with ease in his watery world, h was too small for his mother to detect because the inside wall of the uterus has no feeling.  Babies born at this time have survived, however.

St. Gerard has been helping couples considered infertile to conceive. Thousands have testified how he answered their prayers with the birth of a child that doctors insisted was a medical impossibility or saved a mother dying in childbirth. By popular acclaim he is called the "patron of mothers, patron of motherhood and protector of expectant mothers and their unborn children. St. Gerard prayer cards are available in the narthex.


Throughout the year announcements in the Evangelization section of the parish bulletin encourage prayer, meditation and action.


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WHAT’S YOUR PART IN THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT?

From time to time throughout the year, parishioners are encouraged to contact their federal or state elected officials.  For your convenience, here is a list of those officials:


United States Senate


              Jim DeMint ®                                                 Lindsey Graham ®
              340 Russell Senate Office Bldg.                 290 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
              Washington, DC  20510-4002                       Washington, DC 20510-4001
              Phone: (202) 224-6121                                  Phone: (202) 224-5972
              FAX: (202) 228--5143                                     FAX: (202) 228-3808
              Website: demint.senate.gov                      Website: Graham.senate.gov

US House of Representatives

Joe Wilson ®
Second District
2229 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515-4002
Phone: (202) 225-2452
FAX: (202) 225-2455

South Carolina State Senate

Thomas C. “Tom” Davis ®
District No. 46 – Beaufort County
(H) PO Drawer 1107, Beaufort, SC 29901-1107
 Bus: (843) 252-8583
(C) PO Box 142, Columbia, SC 29202-0142
Room 602
  Bus: (803) 212-6008
e-mail:
TomDavis@scsenate.gov

South Carolina House of Representatives

         Andrew C. (Andy) Patrick ®                     William G. (Bill) Herbkersman ®
         District 123 – Beaufort County               District 118 – Beaufort County
        (H) PO Box 22676                                      (H) 151 Gascoigne Bluff
        Hilton Head Island, SC 29925                   Bluffton, SC 29910
       Bus:  (843) 290-6606                                   Bus:  (843) 757-7900; Home: (843) 757-5424
        C) POBox 11867, Columbia 29211-1867   (C) POBox 11867, Columbia 29211-1867
        Room 308A                                                  Room 308B
         Bus: (803) 212-6928                                   Bus: (803) 734-3063
        e-mail:
AndyPatrick@schouse.gov          e-mail: BillHerbkersman@schouse.gov


Rachel’s Corner:
Post Abortion Ministry – Diocese of Charleston

http://www.sc-familylife.org/pages/family%20life/project%20rachel.html


 

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Hilton Head Island, SC  29926

Phone Number: 843-681-6350
FAX Number: 843-689-5502
Email: office@stfrancishhi.org

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