Posted on 03/07/2009 9:58:09 AM PST by Faith
40 Days for Life consists of 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion,
40 days of constant, peaceful vigil outside abortion centers and Planned Parenthood offices
and 40 days of active pro-life community outreach.
Your community may be participating in this prayerful vigil.
If so, please join others in your area
or unite with thousands across America
during the 40 days of Lent
in praying for an end to abortion in this nation.
Pray that people of faith will have their strength renewed even in the face of the violence of abortion.
SCRIPTURE
The favors of the Lord are not exhausted, his mercies are not spent. They are renewed each morning, so great is his faithfulness. I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait in silence for the saving help of the Lord.
-- Lamentations 3:22-26
REFLECTION by Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
The Book of Lamentations, a short book of only five chapters, contains some of the most poignant expressions of human grief.
These verses are used in many Churches on Good Friday, since they can be seen to express a prophecy of the suffering of the Lord and the lamentation of his followers on that dark day.
But in the midst of his grief, Jeremiah writes the verses quoted above. "The favors of the Lord are not exhausted." It is a call to hope that no matter how much violence there is, life will prevail in the end.
Why does he say, however, that God's mercies are renewed each morning?
Because early in the morning, on the first day of the week, the women came to the tomb -- and they found that the events of that morning changed everything.
Christ's victory over death came in the morning, and therefore each day we can renew our confidence that life has the final victory.
PRAYER
Lord, look kindly on your people who weep and mourn amidst the vast devastation that abortion has brought upon our land. We cannot even count the children killed, and the mothers and fathers wounded.
We cannot measure the devastation and corruption abortion has brought upon the very fabric of our society. But we declare today that your favors have not been exhausted, your mercies have not been spent. They are renewed each morning.
Give us new strength today in the resurrection of Christ your Son, that we may bear effective witness to the victory of life! In His name we pray, Amen.
Your mercies are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! In the Name of Jesus Christ,Amen.
Amen.
Oh how dear and good is God, and how dismally wicked our nation has become. I fear and I tremble, for I have neither prayed nor acted against the slaughter of the innocents. Wherefore God forgive me, a sinner.
Father, give us grace to repent, and fortitude to stand up for your dear and holy innocents. + We ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son Our Lord, Amen. +
Amen
Evening Prayer Bump!
Our Master, May the Day Come Soon when Every Abortion Mill will be Closed. We Intercede for the Little Ones, we Cry for the Helpless Ones; Save them, Save them, our Loving King.
Thank You for Your Lovingkindness, Lord, and Your Grace that Saves the Lost. In Jesus' Name, be Honored and Exalted Forever, amen.
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