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RESPECT LIFE BABY ITEMS NEEDED!
Call the Pregnancy Help Center at 309-0788
for more information on items they need donated for mothers and babies.
Prayer:
Committed prayer teams needed to pray for the conversion of hearts, minds, souls and strength at the Alhambra Planned
Parenthood.
Please pray for the spiritual conversion of all who support, provide and/or use the following: abortion, contraception,
cloning, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, capital punishment, and all other forms of homicide. (In the
coming weeks, please watch for more information on the Spiritual Adoption Prayer Journey.)
Please pray for the Respect Life Ministry
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done:
Promoting Jesus' way of sharing the truth about the dignity of human life by providing resources and opportunities
for life affirming Prayer,
Education,
Advocacy,
and Charitable
Empathy
(PEACE)
from conception through natural death..
We meet every 1st Saturday at 9:30 a.m. (after the 8:00 am Mass, Rosary & 1st Saturday Devotions) in the Parish Center Meeting Room. Refreshments served.
TIPS FOR SAFE SIDEWALK COUNSELING:
Go with a partner; audio and/or video record your presence; stay
on public property; do not block walkways, entrances or driveways; have pro-life literature available, including
San Gabriel Valley Pregnancy Help Center brochures (to obtain brochures, call 309-0788); be kind to everyone.
WALK FOR LIFE!
Mark your calendars for Sat., Jan. 24, to join over 25,000 pro-lifers for the 5th Annual Walk for Life in San Francisco.
We’ll
peacefully proclaim our message that abortion hurts women. For more information, visit our website at www.walkforlifewc.com.
To volunteer or to
arrange buses, call (415) 586-1576 or email questions to info@walkforlifewc.com.
LEPANTO 2008:
A national rosary campaign for the culture of life. For information about pledging a rosary a day for the next
1 to 4 years, please
go to http://lepanto2008.org.
EDUCATION:
"Since the Creator of all things has established the conjugal partnership
as the beginning and basis of human society," the family is "the first and vital cell of society"
(Apostolicam Actuositatem (11).
The family has vital and organic links with society, since it is its foundation and nourishes it continually through
its role of service to life:
it is from the family that citizens come to birth and it is within the family that they find the first school of
the social virtues that are the animating principle of the existence and development of society itself.
Thus, far from being closed in on itself, the family is by nature and vocation open to other families and
to society, and undertakes its social role." ~ Pope John Paul II,
Familiaris Consortio (Role of the
Christian Family in the Modern World) (42)
ADVOCACY:
Fight FOCA (Freedom of Choice Act)! President-elect Barack Obama stated, "The
first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.."
FOCA would eradicate all laws restricting abortion nationwide: FOCA will do away with state laws on parental involvement,
on partial birth abortion, and on all other protections; FOCA will compel taxpayer funding of abortions; FOCA will
force faith-based hospitals and healthcare facilities to perform abortions. SIGN THE FIGHT FOCA
PETITION at WWW.FIGHTFOCA.COM.
RESOURCES:
Public Policy:
California Catholic Conference (www.cacatholic.org);
Pregnancy Resources:
San Gabriel Valley Pregnancy Help Center (www.phc-sgv.org);
Catholic Post-Abortion:
Rachel's Vineyard (www.rachelsvineyard.org);
Catholic Marriage:
www.foryourmarriage.org;
Catholic End of Life Care: www.embracingourdying.com;
Catholic Human Sexuality:
www.theologyofthebody.net.
Theology of the Body CDs/DVDs and books are available for sale in the Rectory.
Please call your elected representatives to encourage a NO vote on the following
bills: Physician-Assisted Suicide Bill -- AB 374,
a bill to legalize assisted suicide was introduced into California Assembly on February 15, 2007. Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill -- H.R. 3,
a bill that provides taxpayer funding for embryonic stem cell research that will result in the destruction of living
human beings in their embryonic stage of life.
"BELLA": If you have not yet seen the award-winning film, “BELLA,”
please treat yourself. It is a wonderful story, telling of life-giving friendship, family and sacrificial love.
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