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: