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Respect Life

Contact: Joan Mullane
342-5789

e-mail Joan

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. On a yearly basis, the Rosary Crusade for Life is organized in our parish.  Rosaries are said throughout the month of October for an end to all assaults on life. The parish count is added to the South Carolina statewide crusade. Our crusade is then culminated with an all night vigil for life in conjunction with the 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 protest against assaults on life.

In January, the month of the anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, white crosses, one for each million abortions performed in the country, are installed at the front of the church. Bulletin announcements are also provided informing parishioners of local, state and national marches for life.

Throughout the year as well, Respect Life bulletin announcements are provided to the parish along with any additional information regarding pro-life activities in the area.

Click here for WHAT'S YOUR PART IN THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT? document

Click here for Hilton Head Citizens For Life 1/11/2009

The parish Spiritual Adoption program begins the weekend of August 15-16. The poster "I am here" depicts the very beginning of the nine-month journey before birth. Please recognize the child's existence and join in prayer for him/her and the parents. Prayer cards will be available in the narthex and the Blessed Sacrament chapel after August 16.

   Created, Loved, Redeemed by God

I am eight months old now. I have long fingernails; I’m getting taller; I’m gaining weight – that layer of fat will help keep me warm after I am born. I am looking forward to my birthday and can’t wait to see my mom and dad. Thank you for your prayers for my parents and for me.

Prayer cards are available in the narthex and Adoration Chapel.


 

 

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:

 

“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 and Adoration Chapel.)

 

 

President Obama and leaders of both political parties are meeting in late February to launch what the President hopes will be a bipartisan approach to health care. We as Catholics have several concerns about what may or may not be included in any future legislation on health care.

Among the issues of concern to many Catholics are these:

We oppose any effort to expand abortion funding or to mandate abortion coverage.

We need to see appropriate safeguards for adequately funded health care for the elderly, especially in cases of those with terminal illness.

We absolutely oppose any attempt to remove all conscience clauses for physicians, nurses and other health care workers and any attempt to force Catholic hospitals to provide service inconsistent with our teachings.

Everyone is urged to call or e-mail our elected officials. To assist in achieving this, here is a list of those officials and their addresses:

President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500, 202 456-1111

Senator Jim DeMint, 340 Russell Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-4002, 202 224-6121, http://demint.senate.gov.

Senator Lindsey Graham, 290 Russell Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-4001, 202 224-5972, http://graham.senate.gov

Congressman Joe Wilson, 212 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC 20515-4002, 202 225-2452www.joewilson.house.gov

Congressman Henry Brown, 103 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC, 20515, 202 225-3176, www.brown.house.gov

Congressman J. Gresham Barrett, 439 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC, 20515, 202 225-5301, www.barrett.house.gov

Congressman Bob Inglis, 100 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC, 20515, 202 225-6030, www.inglis.house.gov

Congressman John Spratt, 1401 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC, 20515, 202 225-5501, www.spratt.house.com

Congressman James E. Clyburn, 2135 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 20515, 202, 225-3315, www.clyburn.house.gov

When contacting Congressmen Wilson, Brown, Barrett, Inglis and Spratt thank them for supporting the Stupak amendment and ask them to continue support of those issues.


 

 

RACHEL’S CORNER:
Post Abortion Ministry – Diocese of Charleston, 803 554-6088 or 803 546-6010 or
grace4healing@gmail.com

 

 

PRAY TO ST. GERARD

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.

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