St. Joan of Arc, St. Patrick, St. Mary in Muncie

“UNITE ON THE LIFE PRINCIPLES TO OVERTURN ROE v. WADE AND PROTECT MOTHERS AND PREBORN CHILDREN.” 

The pro-life pilgrimage is a prayerful journey open to all adults, high school teens and youth ages 10-14 with parental supervision. All youth participating must stay in a room with other youth. 2012 March for Life includes a special tour of Mount St. Mary Seminary, where Fr. Rowland, Fr. Bennett and Fr. Andrew Dudzinski attended seminary, and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Shrine in Emmitsburg, MD! We will attend the vigil Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, visit Museums, Monuments, Memorials, and participate in the 39th Annual March for Life on Monday, January 23. Cost per person is $260 which includes bus transportation, 5 meals and double queen room for four people. We are staying at the NEW Courtyard Washington, DC/U.S. Capitol. Bring money for 5 meals. Important information: To secure your spot on the bus a $100 deposit is NOW due. The first 50 people are guaranteed a spot. Our goal is to take two buses, however, if 100 people do not sign up we will cancel the second bus.  The total non-refundable balance is due December 20. Call Brian Campbell at 865-9964 for more information.

Who:               Adults, H.S. Teens & younger youth w/ parental chaperone
Where:           Washington, DC
Cost:               $260 per person for quad room (fundraising opportunities available – see Brian Campbell for more information)
Deadline:      $100 deposit NOW due to reserve your spot. We can guarantee a spot for the first 50 people.

For forms click here.

“I would go as far as to say that if there was no purgatory, then we would have to invent it, for who would dare say of himself that he was able to stand directly before God. And yet we don’t want to be, to use an image from Scripture, ‘a pot that turned out wrong,’ that has to be thrown away, we want to be able to be put right. Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That he can cleanse us in such a way that we can be with him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.” – Pope Benedict XVI

Written by Sean Carney    visit www.40daysforlife.com for more information.

Another 40 Days for Life campaign has come to an end — and we can look back now at lives FOREVER CHANGED.

During these 40 days, there have been … 508 lives saved — that we know of — because of God’s response to your prayer! From past campaigns, we expect the number to KEEP GROWING, as our local campaign leaders get their final reports in. In the coming days, keep an eye on your inbox for some exciting news and developments that have been in the works during this campaign and for the past few months! But for today, let’s look at some of the ways lives have been changed during 40 Days for Life — and thank God for his abundant blessings during this time of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion.

AUSTIN, TEXAS
A volunteer spoke a teenaged couple approaching the abortion center and learned that the girl just found out she was pregnant. She was afraid of telling her parents and wanted to go behind their backs to get a judicial bypass — a court order — in order to have an abortion. Her boyfriend was not in favor of the abortion, but reluctantly said he supported her because it was her decision. “I showed them what her baby might look like, based on how far along she thought she was — six weeks, “said the vigil participant. “I also discussed alternatives and resources that I could connect her with.” The couple walked into the abortion center, but soon left “with smiles of joy and satisfaction. They decided to not to have an abortion,” said the volunteer. “Praise God!”

OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS
The 40 Days for Life team in Overland Park had gotten a call from the 40 Days for Life leaders in Columbia, Missouri. Planned Parenthood’s Columbia abortionist had quit, so this office was sending women to Planned Parenthood in Overland Park for abortions. A volunteer spoke to a couple who had shown up for an appointment in Overland Park. He asked the couple if they were from Columbia — they looked shocked — and said in fact they were. So he shared some pro-life information with them. They never made it inside the building, however. It was closed! No one had shown up for work that day– there was no explanation. Later, another couple showed up, knocked, tried the intercom — nothing. There was still no one there. They also took information from the volunteers and left.

LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
A young woman stopped to talk to a 40 Days for Life prayer volunteer outside the abortion center. “She was pregnant,” the vigil participant said, “and gave me many reasons as to why she should have an abortion.” She said the father was not around, she used drugs and she wouldn’t be a good mother. “I simply reminded her that God had a plan for her and her baby, and that He would take care of her. I referred her to the pregnancy resource center a few doors down from Planned Parenthood.” They prayed, and the volunteer gave the young woman a hug, after which she said, “I’m out of here.” As she left Planned Parenthood, she rolled down the window and waved goodbye. “She was crying,” said the vigil participant. “I’m still praying for her.”

DAY 41 INTENTION
Pray that the witness of 40 Days for Life bears abundant fruit, and that we begin again each day to storm the gates of hell until God welcomes us into the gates of heaven.

SCRIPTURE
On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. — Matthew 16:18

How do you think Fr. Ted answered these questions?

1. What are your personal beliefs about Hell?  What Scripture do you rely on to support your belief?

2. What does your church teach about Hell? What scripture does your church use to support those beliefs?

3. What role should Hell play in the message of salvation? Should fear be a motivator to salvation?

4. A lot of churches ignore Hell, does Hell still have a place in the teachings of the American church? How often is it a topic of teaching in your church? 

Click here to find out how he responded to these questions posed to him and published in The Perspective.

“Today, when dangers far greater than those of the ancient Turks threaten not only Christianity but all civilization, we are urged by our Blessed Mother to turn again to the Rosary for help. If men in sufficient numbers do this, and at the same time carry out the other conditions that she has laid down, we have the greater reason for confidence that we will be delivered from our dangers.” – Mary in our Life by Fr. William G. Most

Watch this amazing YouTube and pray the rosary.

This Sacred Moment: Becoming Holy Right Where You Are
By Fr. Albert Haase

Price:  $10 – available at Fr. Ted’s corner

“With engaging Franciscan simplicity, and in a lucid and accessible style, Father Haase writes of holiness as responding to God’s call in the present moment.” Fr. Timothy Gallagher, author of The Discernment of Spirits

Be a part of one of the fastest growing, most influential social justice movement of our times! This fall from September 28 to November 6, St. Joan of Arc and St. Patrick will be uniting with hundreds of other cities around the world in 40 Days of Life, a focused prayer and fasting campaign that has already mobilized 400,000 people worldwide, saved more than 4,300 lives from abortion, converted 53 abortion clinic workers, and closed 14 abortion facilities. We have an opportunity to pray and stand for life at a peaceful vigil at the Planned Parenthood facility on 86th Street and Georgetown Road at any time day or night during these 40 days. However, you can join fellow parishioners and our priests each Friday morning of the campaign. We leave at approximately 9:15 am and are back at church no later than 1:00 pm. Please contact the parish office, 865-6684, if you have questions or want to participate.