40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 14 - THESE ARE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO ARE BEING KILLED!

http://www.40DaysforLife.com ^ | October 6, 2009 | Faith

[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 these 40 days in Autumn
as we pray for an end to abortion in this nation.

[Faith]

DAY 14 INTENTION

Abortion is the great "no." May all of God's people have the freedom and grace to say "yes" to His marvelous plans.

SCRIPTURE

For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed and in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

-- Psalm 139:13-16

REFLECTION by Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life

Unlike the rest of creation, we are capable of a personal relationship with God. Not only did God create us, but created us according to a plan devised from all eternity. No matter how far back we go in our imagination, there was never a time when God did not know each of us, in every detail of our being.

There was not a particular time when God decided to make us. The decision to make us has been in the mind of God from all eternity. All our days were written in His book.

To dare to say that a human being, developing in the womb, should not be born is as wrong as to say that a born person should not continue to grow and live. In each case, an attack on human life is an attack on the God who formed and made us. Jesus Christ is the great "yes" to the promises of God; abortion is the great "no."

PRAYER

Lord, I pray today for every unborn child. The beauty of the bodies and souls of these children flows from your hands and your eternal plan.

Awaken in every human conscience a profound reverence for human life, and grant us grace to defend our smallest and most defenseless brothers and sisters, those still being formed in the secret places of their mothers' womb. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.

[Faith]

Creator God,

Your Word tells us that You knew us even before You formed us in the womb of our mother! What an awesome thought! You even set us apart for Your service. O Lord, hear our prayers for every precious unborn child. Help mothers and fathers to realize the nature of the beautiful life You have created. Help them to know that each baby is perfectly and wonderfully made, and that You have a special plan and purpose for each life. May all Your purposes be fulfilled. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

[wombtotomb]

amen.

[mlizzy]

I started fasting yesterday for the babies. Didn't think I could do it, but felt the Lord encouraging me ...

St. Michael the Archangel, pray for US!

[agere_contra]

Amen.

God has a purpose for each of us. May God forgive us for thwarting His design for these innocents in the womb.

How many wonderful and ineffable acts of God have we snuffed out? How many voices that should have been among us will never speak?

This is how we treated the prophets you sent us Lord. We killed them and we didn’t care. Have mercy on us.

[Faith]

mlizzy,

That’s awesome, mlizzy! Thank you for your defense of the unborn.

[Faith]

How many wonderful and ineffable acts of God have we snuffed out? How many voices that should have been among us will never speak?

We will never know their love or their laughter. They were fearfully and wonderfully made by our Creator God, and yet their mother and perhaps their father chose to take their lives. Have mercy on us, indeed, Precious Lord.

[Salvation]

Today's email stories:

The headline on the brand new Pew Research Center
report reads: "Support for abortion slips."

Interesting finding ... especially DURING a 40 Days
for Life campaign!

Specifically, the Pew survey revealed that support
for legal abortion plummeted from 54% in 2007 to only
47% in 2009.

Then the study reports: "No single reason for the
shift in opinions is apparent..."

With tens of thousands of faithful people praying and
fasting together for an end to abortion, I can think
of one possible reason... :-)

Whatever the cause, we praise God for this shift --
and for all of you who have been praying and fasting
for an end to abortion.

I've noticed that the YouTube video of 40 Days for
Life vigil participants in New York City being
heckled by abortion advocates has spread far and wide
through blogs and e-mail. If you haven't seen it yet,
it's definitely worth a look:

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=321

Such counter-demonstrations seem to be more heavily
concentrated in larger cities. And even there, the
opposition effort isn't quite what the abortion
advocates might have you believe.

A "pro-choice" blogger in New York City urged more
like-minded people to "stand up and fight back"
against 40 Days for Life. So how do they counter 40
Days for Life's all-day, 40-day prayer effort? By
inviting people to show up for a mere four hours on
Saturday.

Jim in Los Angeles said people praying at an abortion
center there had a similar "welcoming committee." But
the prayer continued through all the noise.

"Under such conditions, the sound and feel of
taunting and intimidation were ever in the air," Jim
said, "but I so experienced the peace of God, which
he freely gave. For all the hate and insults we
endured today, there was a victory from the Lord."

The victory? A baby was saved from abortion!

Here's a story that hits close to home for me...

This past weekend, abortion supporters targeted the
40 Days for Life vigil in Manassas, Virginia -- not
far from Washington, D.C.

On Saturday -- the morning my home church was signed
up to cover the vigil -- the abortion advocates got a
permit to conduct a demonstration against 40 Days for
Life at the place the vigil usually takes place.

But when the day came, there were 197 pro-life people
praying at the clinic -- and only THREE abortion
demonstrators. Demoralized, they didn't stay long.

To see a photo of just a few of the faithful people
who came to stand up for life in Manassas, go here:

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=321

And here's "the rest of the story"...

While all those people were out there praying, a
woman walked towards the clinic for an abortion
appointment. After people on the sidewalk spoke to
her, she entered the nearby pro-life pregnancy center
instead.

"The lady who was about to have the abortion told the
counselor she started to shiver when she saw so many
people praying," said Ken Groves of the Manassas
40 Days for Life campaign. "At that moment she said
she felt God wanted her to have her baby. A precious
baby was saved! It was an amazing Saturday in
Manassas."

In New Jersey, a newspaper report on the 40 Days for
Life vigil in Woodbridge contained a shocking
revelation showing that the abortion industry even
knows they're losing.

The manager of the clinic where the vigil is in
progress told a reporter that the sight of people
praying outside makes an impact on women arriving for
abortions. "To a lot of patients, it changed their
mind right away and they never come back," she said.
"It happens a lot."

People KNOW abortion is wrong; we just need to get
them to think about it.

And that's exactly the thing 40 Days for Life
prayerfully, peacefully insists that people do.

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