Posted on 03/13/2009 11:10:36 AM PDT 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 we choose to trust God to bring an end to abortion soon, no matter how impossible that may seem to others.
SCRIPTURE
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.
He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign Lord, you alone know."
-- Ezekiel 37:1-3
REFLECTION by Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
You and I are standing in a world today over a field of dry bones: those who have been killed by abortion, those who have been killed by so many other things attacking the dignity of human life. And God has placed us here; we find ourselves here in the midst of this incredible tragedy.
Like Ezekiel, you and I are in a dilemma because God says to us: "Speak and proclaim the Word of Life. Keep doing it. Let nothing deter you."
People can say, "This is humanly foolish, humanly impossible. How can we transform the world from the path of death that it's on?"
Yet we choose to do the "foolish" thing rather than the dangerous thing.
If you ever doubt that we can bring an end to this culture of death, this destruction of the family, this destruction of life by abortion, if you ever think for a moment that it's impossible, then ask yourself this: Can a man who has been scourged, crowned with thorns, nailed hands and feet to a cross, pierced with a lance, has died and been buried; can such a man ever live again?
PRAYER
Lord, I thank you for giving me the holy dilemma of having to choose between the foolish thing or the dangerous thing.
Yet for me the solution is clear.
Lord, I will obey you, even if it means aiming for a goal which, in the eyes of others, seems foolish.
I will obey you, and will hope for the end of abortion soon, no matter how impossible that may seem to others. I dare not mistrust you; I dare not doubt your power; I dare not fail to follow your call. In you, who raise the dead, all hope comes alive. Amen.
Lord, help us not to grow weary in this battle. May we never relent, never give up until every last child is protected and loved, whether in the womb or outside of it. Make us instruments of Your peace. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Michael Steele, do you want to add your prayers here? No? Sorry I asked.
Amen.............Thank You for this thread Faith!
Prayer Bump!
Our Loving Savior, we Ask for the Overturning of Abortion in our USA. Please Raise Up Many Godly Men who Truly Believe in the Cause of Life. Please Instill Courage into our Elected Officials, and Steadfastness, and Strength. May they be Granted Heaven's Resources to Aid them in this Fight for Life.
Thank You, Your Excellency, and be Praised and Honored Forevermore. In Jesus' Name, we Worship and Thank You Father, amen.
Unless my understanding of scripture is wrong...it is not only those who perform the abortions but those who support them whose hands the blood is upon. Their stance might change if they all ended up like Lady MacBeth, who could not get away from the blood on her hands! (Thank you Shakespeare.)
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