October is Respect Life Month

Sunday, October 5, 2014

October is Respect Life Month

Back in 1972, the year before the United States Supreme Court ruled on Roe V. Wade to legalize abortion in the U.S., Pope John Paul II set aside the first Sunday of October as "Respect Life Sunday", also called "Sanctity of Life Sunday."

The Catholic Church has dedicated the month of October, starting with the first Sunday, to extra time and resources in advancing the culture of life.

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Pro-Life Reading

Abortion & the Early Church: Christian, Jewish & Pagan Attitudes in the Greco-Roman World, by Michael J. Gorman
Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry's Exploitation of Women, by Janet Morana
unPlanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line, by Abby Johnson
The Hand of God-autobiography of Bernard Nathanson and his journey from abortionist to pro-life.
Aborting America, by Bernard Nathanson with Richard Ostling, 1979-account of the founding of N.A.R.A.L. and the legalization of abortion, and Nathanson's reflections and re-evaluation of his position on abortion.

Prayers

Bishop Fulton Sheen's Spiritual Adoption of Unborn baby

Jesus, Mary ,and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to save the life of the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted, and is in danger of abortion. Mary, our Mother in Heaven, pray for us,and especially for your little ones in danger of abortion!

Father Frank Pavone's "Spiritual Adoption" of Abortion Clinic

Father, all life is in Your care. You have entrusted us to one another, that we may show our brothers and sisters the same love You have for us.

We pray, then, for the least among us,the children in the womb. Protect them from the violence of abortion.
We pray for those that are scheduled to die at [abortion mill]. Save them from death. Give new hope to their parents, that they may turn away from the desperate act of abortion. Grant conversion to the abortionist and to the staff.

Show us how we are to respond to the bloodshed in our midst, and lead us to the day when this place of death will be transformed into a haven of life.

Guard us with your joy and your peace, for in You, life is victorious. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Psalm 139

1. For the leader. A psalm of David. O LORD, you have probed me, you know
me:
2. you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.
3. My travels and my reast you mark; with all my ways you are familiar.
4. Even before a word is on my tongue, LORD, you know it all.
5. Behind and before you encircle me and rest you hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is beyond me, far too lofty for me to reach.

7. Where can I hide from you spirit? From you presence, where can I flee?
8. If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I lie down in Sheol, you are there too.
9. If I fly with the wings of dawn and alight beyond the sea,
10. Even there your hand will
guide me, your right hand hold me fast.
11. If I say, "surely darkness shall hide me, and night shall be my light'--
12. darkness is not dark for you, and night shines as the day. Darkness and light are but one.

13. Your formed my inmost being you knit me in my mother's womb.
14. I praise you, so wonderfully you made me; wonderful are you works! My very self you knew;
15. my bones were not hidden from you, When I was being made in secret, fashioned as
in the depths of the earth.
16. Your eyes foresaw my actions; in your book
all are written down; my days were shaped, before one came to be.
17. How precious to me are your designs, O God; how vast the sum of them!
18. Were I to count, they would outnumber the sands; to finish, I would need eternity.

19. If only you would destroy the wicked, O God, and the bloodthirsty
would depart from me!
20. Deceitfully they invoke your name; your foes swear faithless oaths.
21. do I not hate, LORD, those who hate you? Those who rise against you , do I not loathe? 22. With fierce hared I hate them, enemies I
count as my own.
23. Probe me, God, know my heart; try me, know my concerns.
24. See if my way is crooked, then lead me in the ancient paths.

Psalm 103

1 Of David. Bless the LORD, my soul; all my being, bless his holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, my soul; do not forget all the gifts of God,
3 Who pardons all your sins, heals all your ills,
4 Delivers your life from the pit, surrounds you with love and compassion,
5 Fills your days with good things; your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6 The LORD does righteous deeds, brings justice to all the oppressed.
7 His ways were revealed to Moses, mighty deeds to the people of Israel.
8 Merciful and gracious is the LORD, slow to anger, abounding in kindness.
9 God does not always rebuke, nurses no lasting anger,
10 Has not dealt with us as our sins merit, nor requited us as our deeds deserve.
11 As the heavens tower over the earth, so God's love towers over the faithful.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far have our sins been removed from us.
13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on the faithful.
14 For he knows how we are formed, remembers that we are dust.
15 Our days are like the grass; like flowers of the field we blossom.
16 The wind sweeps over us and we are gone; our place knows us no more.
17 But the LORD'S kindness is forever, toward the faithful from age to age. He favors the children's children
18 of those who keep his covenant, who take care to fulfill its precepts.
19 The LORD'S throne is established in heaven; God's royal power rules over all.
20 Bless the LORD, all you angels, mighty in strength and attentive, obedient to every command.
21 Bless the LORD, all you hosts, ministers who do God's will.
22 Bless the LORD, all creatures, everywhere in God's domain. Bless the LORD, my soul!

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

October is Respect Life Month

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