JANUARY 7- What hypocrisy it is to rejoice over the first baby born in the New Year in our community and not to mourn over the death of the estimated 65 million babies who have died over the past 50 New Years.

JANUARY 14- Help put God back into our lives: Promote His Commandments; bring back respect for all life from the womb to the tomb; strengthen family structure that is the basic unit of our society and bring Judeo-Christian morals back into our nation.

JANUARY 21-“The greatest gift of God, I would think, is the gift of life.  The greatest sin of humans, it would seem, would be to return the gift ungratefully and unopened” Fr. John Powell

JANUARY 28-“I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and throughout all subsequent stages- is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God…and when God gives life, it is forever.” St. John Paul II

FEBRUARY 4- First abortion on demand, then infanticide, and now fetal experimentation and euthanasia:  “We are just waking up to the old historical truth that the loss of God is the beginning of tyranny” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

FEBRUARY 11-“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”  Abraham Lincoln   Lord, let us not be cowards; give us the courage and wisdom necessary to stand up and fight the evil of abortion and euthanasia today.

FEBRUARY 18- “What do you think a human artist would feel if he were working on a masterpiece and someone came up and destroyed his artwork?  Deliberate destruction of an art object expresses the lack of respect for both the artist and his art.  The same attitude is expressed towards God when man indiscriminately destroys human children that God is forming in the womb” John Ankerberg

FEBRUARY 25 – What “liberation” is there in the destruction of one’s own child?  What “victory” for women’s rights has been wrought doing such violence to the womb?  What kind of “choice” is it really when a woman’s life-giving, procreative power is betrayed for the cost of an abortion?

MARCH 3-“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government.  They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity.  The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.”  St. Teresa of Calcutta

MARCH 10- “When two men are fighting in a forest and they are attacked by a wild beast they quickly become a united force against a common danger.  So it should be today with Jews, Protestants, and Catholics.  There is a common enemy (Abortion).  “Therefore let there be a common front against a common affront”  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

MARCH 17-“America…You are the best in so many ways.  But your best beauty, your richest blessing is from the human persons…the ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless ones; the unborn, the aged, and the handicap   St. John Paul II 

MARCH 24-With the pro-abortion forces so deeply entrenched it is sometimes easy to feel like David confronting Goliath.  But like David, we must expose ourselves to the dangers prayerfully and trust in God totally so that God can bring about a victory.

MARCH 31- Many of the people who are opposed to abortion have been led to believe they should not “impose” their morality on others.  Think about this:  Legal abortion imposes someone’s morality upon the little babies.

APRIL 7- The unborn child is created in the image of God.  This child is God’s child and is part of God’s world.  So the life of this child is not ours to take.  Therefore, it is a sin to take this child’s life for reasons whether of birth control, gender selection, convenience, or avoidance of embarrassment.

APRIL 14 -“Today the spirit of violence in our society is so great that our children are literally killing one another.  What else should we expect in a nation where mothers have been granted the spurious ‘right’ to kill their offspring at will…As long as our courts sanction murder in the womb we will be faced with the consequences of violence in our streets, schools, workplace, and homes.”  Alan Keyes

APRIL 21- The ministry of the church involves far more than just being against sin or being “anti-abortion”.  The church is pro-life in the fullest sense.  Our love is not just for those children yet to be born, but also for the mothers and fathers.  Our ministry is to hold before all people the unconditional love of God

APRIL 28- The child conceived by rape is as much an innocent victim as the mother; surely to love and care for both innocent victims is far more helpful to the woman than forcing her to deal with the additional violence and psychological trauma of an abortion. Choose adoption not abortion.

MAY 5- Every human being is always unique and unrepeatable-someone thought of from eternity by God.  In the beginning God created…me!  The days of my life were recorded in God’s Book even before I was born.  Thank you, Mom, for not aborting me.

MAY 12-“The most important person on earth is a mother…She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral-a dwelling place for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body.”  Joseph Cardinal  Mindzenty

MAY 19- Say a special prayer for women who have had abortions.  Pray that these mothers may come to peace with God themselves and others involved in the abortion decision.

MAY 26- When we give birth, we live with dreams of the future.  When we abort, we live with the nightmares of the past.

JUNE 2-“Those who favor euthanasia (mercy killing), speak of the ‘right to die.’  No one needs a right to die; it’s a fact of life.  What they really want is the right to kill.”  Nat. RTL

JUNE 9- Abortion-on-demand laws give to one person (the mother) the legal right to kill another (the baby) in order to solve the first person’s so called ‘social problem’…and we live in a civilized society? 

JUNE 16- A dad has arms to lift high, a heart to love, shoulders to support, a smile to reassure, a hand of blessing to send you out into the world, a warm embrace to welcome you back home. Let’s thank our fathers today.

JUNE 23-“If we continue to define “quality of life” along the lines of viability then we are only a step away from killing  anyone in nursing homes, mental institutions, and homes for the disabled because they, too, could not survive very long without great amounts of love, support, nutrition, and care.”  Rev. Richard Seefried

JUNE 30- American’s national symbol, the bald eagle, is an endangered species.  Its eggs are protected by federal law with a $5000 fine issued for tampering or breaking one.  America’s future however, its children, are not as protected.  Our government has sanctioned and often times pay for their deaths through abortion.

JULY 7- As people faithful to God, many of us see abortion as a religious issue-it is, however, primarily a civil rights issue.  Our Constitution guarantees the “right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  It does not exclude the unborn.

JULY 14-“More important than liberty, more important than the pursuit of happiness, more important than economics, and more important even than religious freedom is the question of life itself.  If we are deprived of life, then obviously all of our other rights are gone as well.”  Dr. D. James Kennedy

JULY 21- America: all the great causes that are yours today will have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the right to life.”  St. John Paul II

JULY 28- News shows and other programs refuse to show the people of our country what an abortion really looks like.  When something is so horrifying that we can’t stand to look at it, why are we tolerating it?

AUGUST 4- “It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and pray for clemency and forgiveness.”  Abraham Lincoln   Abortion and euthanasia have become our national sin.

AUGUST 11- The reason we have abortion on demand in some states in this land is simple:  Our self-centered, materialistic society has a wrong attitude towards our children.  After all, children are our most precious natural resource; they are our future.

AUGUST 18-“It’s been a decade and still my blood runs cold and I catch my breath whenever I hear the word ‘abortion’.  There’s emptiness inside me that can never be filled, a chill that has never quite been warmed, a grief that will never end.” (Words of a mother who chose to have an abortion.)

AUGUST 25- Caring for all people-unborn babies, children, grandparents, begins with us; being pro-life means caring for all life from conception to natural death.

SEPTEMBER 1-“Abortion is no more a single issue than was slavery.  It is instead a defining issue-one which shapes the future of the nation.  In some of our states the present legal policy of abortion often permits the killing of infants being delivered. This weakens the social contract that has kept this country together.  To cooperate willingly in evil is morally wrong, and these present laws make us all at least passive cooperators in the crime of abortion” Cardinal Francis George

SEPTEMBER 8-Give us the grace, when the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.  St. John Paul II

SEPTEMBER 15- Some say that abortion will solve the social problem of unwanted children.  To solve social problems should we kill the poor to end poverty; the homeless to end homelessness; the unemployed to end unemployment? Of course not!  Then why do we tolerate the killing of the unborn.

SEPTEMBER 22-“One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is merely a statistic.” Josef Stalin.  As a nation have we come to a Stalinist mind set?  Have we become numb to this figure: over 65,000,000 babies have been killed by abortion in our nation since 1973?  God help us to comprehend this national evil and take a position against abortion.

SEPTEMBER 29--“Children must not be treated as a burden or inconvenience but should be cherished as bearers of hope and signs of promise for the future.”  St.John Paul II 

 OCTOBER 6- Facts about the development of a child from the moment of conception until birth need to be taught to everyone.  If we would take time to learn the biological facts about life in the womb then, as God’s people, we could never tolerate abortion. No human authority, not even the state, can morally justify the killing of an innocent child.  This tragic transformation of a crime into a “right” is characteristic of a collapsing civilization.

OCTOBER 13- There is a project, based on the thoughts of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen that fights the culture of death with God’s weapon-prayer.  It is called spiritual adoption.  By spiritually adopting an unborn baby and praying daily for that child, you can make a difference.

OCTOBER 20- Abortion is not just an American problem, although some 65 million abortions have been done since 1973 and over 1,706,040,488 and counting have been done worldwide since 1980.  Is it possible that one or more of these babies could have grown up to find a cure for cancer or some other malady?

OCTOBER 27- We were taught we would be judged for what we do and what we fail to do.  To remain silent about the ongoing holocaust of abortion and euthanasia can be a sin of omission.  How we spend our eternity is determined by our actions, not tomorrow, but in the present.  Ask yourself, how will I spend eternity:  Smoking or non-smoking?

NOVEMBER 3-- “The pro-life movement must demand of all elected officials and those who will be campaigning for office in the future that they recognize the grave moral obligation to do everything within their power both to stop the slaughter of the innocent and to stop mouthing platitudes asserting that anyone can morally exercise the “choice” to kill an unborn baby. We must restore sanity to this land and rid ourselves of this frightening contempt for the human person that masquerades as ‘choice’ or ‘privacy’ or any other political slogan.”  Archbishop John J. O’Connor

NOVEMBER 10- In the more than 10 years of the Viet Nam War, over 58,000 Americans were killed; as a nation we still suffer the loss of that many lives. And yet, in the past 50 years we have lost over 65,000,000 lives due to abortion.

NOVEMBER 17-To all our fellow citizens we say:  Abortion is an assault on human dignity, an act of violence against both mother and child and the whole human family.  Legal protection for unborn life must be restored in our nation.  NCCB

NOVEMBER 24- Abortion:  “This is not the kind of issue that we simply agree to pray about or nod in agreement that that’s where I stand.  This calls for action-the kind of action God will lead you to do…the options are many” Find out your option by joining the pro-life movement today.

DECEMBER 1- Life is like a snowflake.  Just as every snowflake is different, every person is different and irreplaceable!  We, as Americans, have allowed over 65,000,000 irreplaceable babies to be destroyed through abortion.  Like the melting snow of springtime, our future generations are also disappearing.

DECEMBER 8- We are called to love.  We practice it in turn by intervening to assist our brothers and sisters in need.  Love, therefore, fuels the pro-life movement.  Love demands that we act to save the babies and assist women to make life-giving choices.  It also demands that we that we assist women who have had abortions to find forgiveness, healing, and peace.

DECEMBER 15- St. Teresa of Calcutta warned us that “in time they will start killing grown-up people, disabled people and so on.  …If we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?” And now we are on the threshold of euthanasia.

DECEMBER 22- Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

 

DECEMBER 29- There can be no peace on earth until there is peace in the womb.  Pray to end abortion. Unborn babies cannot speak, protest, picket, vote, or pray; they have no voice but yours.  Defend them from abortion!