Pro-Life Activities

Our parish Respect Life Program creates and sustains respect for human life at every stage of its existence and in every situation from conception until natural death. This includes:

• Sponsoring the bus trip to Washington DC in January for the March for Life
• Gathering to pray for the unborn at Planned Parenthood's downtown office (pictured at top).
• Observing each October as Respect Life Month with a variety of activities including forming a Life Chain along Perry Highway (2022 event pictured above).
• Holding an annual flower sale, with the proceeds donated to organizations that offer supportive services to homeless women, children, and pregnant women. 
• Focusing on such issues as abortion, war, the death penalty, euthanasia, elder abuse, poverty and racism.
• Publishing a monthly Pro-Life Newsletter.

Luminaries for Life was introduced with great success in 2022 at a neighboring parish. The display drew attention and started important conversations. This year, we're lighting up our community even more brightly! This is a simple way to show your support for efforts to protect the unborn simply by displaying luminaria.

40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that draws attention to the evil of abortion. The most visible component of 40 Days for Life is a constant prayer vigil outside a place where children are aborted, Planned Parenthood on Liberty Avenue downtown. Ours is a prayerful witness to the clinic's patients, employees and the entire community, that evil is in our midst and that with God's help, it will be defeated.