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If you would like to become part of the Holy Spirit Pro-Life Involvement Ministry,contact Chris Peters 434-8822 or Lou Tellifson 434-7701
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- Holy Spirit Parish Pro-Life Involvement : Chris Peters 434-8822
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Learn what businesses and organizations use your money to support the culture of death. Let the business/organization know why you do not wish to do business with them.
Life Decision International makes the full list available for purchase.
*A partial list includes: Whole Foods Market, JPMorgan Chase (including Chase Bank, & Bank One), Bank of America, Lost Arrow (Patagonia), Wells Fargo, Chevron (including Caltex, Xpress Lube, & Texaco), eBay (including PayPal), Carlson Companies (including Country Inns & Suites, Park Inn, Radisson Hotels, Regent Hotels, TGI Friday's restaurants), Kenneth Cole, Nike, Midas, Marriott (including Courtyard Hotels, Fairfield Inn, Renaissance Hotels & Inns, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, etc.), Johnson & Johnson, Valero (Beacon, Ultramar, etc.), Wachovia, and Sonic (drive-in restaurants).
Outward Bound West, American Automobile Association (AAA), Kaiser Permanente, The Salvation Army, American Cancer Society, Dr. Phil Foundation, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Camp Fire, Girl Scouts, Kiwanis Club, Rotary International, March of Dimes, Lions Club, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, American Diabetes Association, and the Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA).
*NOTE: Some local chapters of national organizations do not fund anti-life.
Call your local chapter and ask.
IT WORKS! To date, at least 189 corporations have ceased funding Planned Parenthood!, which has cost the abortion-committing Goliath more than $40 million!
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PRAY and Fast
Tobit 12:8 - prayer is good when accompanied by fasting. Throughout salvation history, God has encouraged fasting to be coupled with prayer
While the pro-life rosary is encouraged, any prayer is appropriate
Fasting can be abstinence from anything one enjoys doing
Prayer to End Abortion
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,
Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death
by the Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today I commit myself
Never to be silent,
Never to be passive,
Never to be forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
And never to stop defending life
Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,
And our nation once again becomes
A nation with liberty and justice
Not just for some, but for all,
Through Christ our Lord. Amen!
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What is urgently called for is a . . . united ethical effort to activate a great campaign in support of life -Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life, no. 95
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
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human life
abortion, 2271, 2322
euthanasia, 2276-79
infanticide, 2271
intentional homicide, 2268-69
peace and respect for, 2304
purpose of human life to know God and to love and serve Him, 1, 68
respect for, 2559-83
and legitimate defense, 2263-67, 2321
from the moment of conception, 2270-75, 2322
and the punishment of death, 2266-67
right to, 2264, 2273
snares of human life
procedures carried out on the embryo, 2275
suicide, 2280-83
transmission of life
as cooperation with the work of the Creator, 372, 2367, 2398
as the end of conjugal love, 2363, 2366
ordained by God, 372
regulation of births, 2368, 2370
Life
Christ as the link between death and, 625
compared to death, 1007, 1012
death as the end of earthly, 1013
dignity of the life of the human body, 364
God alone is the Lord of, 2258
illness and suffering affect human, 150
Jesus, the "author of life," 635
laying down one's soul for one's friends, 609
man's life in the earthly paradise, 376
man's life as a struggle against evil, 386, 409, 1707
ministry of life as the fundamental duty of marriage and the family, 1653
sacred nature of human, 2258, 2319
Word of God and His breath at the origin of all, 703
Dignity
affronts to personal, 1487, 2261, 2275, 2295, 2297, 2324, 2353-55, 2377, 2414, 2418, 2424, 2436 (see also Respect)
all members of the family are persons equal in, 2203
of conjugal love, 1632
contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer, 2418
equal personal dignity of man and woman, 369, 2334
equal personal dignity of spouses, 1645
equality of dignity of God's children, 872, 1468, 1692, 1698, 1934
of the human body as God's image, 364, 1004
of the human person, 1700-876
of love raised to dignity of a sacrament, 1601, 1603, 1638, 1660
of man created by God, 306, 308
of the People of God, 782, 786
of priests, 1587, 1595
reasons for and signs of, 27, 356-57, 1700, 1706, 1730, 1956, 2524
respect for and defense of, 1929, 2158, 2235, 2238, 2267, 2279, 2284-301, 2304, 2402, 2407, 2479, 2494, 2521, 2526
scandal and respect for the dignity of others, 2284-301 (see also Scandal)
unemployment as an insult to, 2436
We proclaim that human life is a precious gift from God; that each person who receives this gift has responsibilities toward God, self and others; and that society, through its laws and social institutions, must protect and nurture human life at every stage of its existence. - U.S. Catholic Bishops, Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities, November 2001
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
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