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DAY 3: I’m hooked

September 27th, 2013 by admin

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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
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I just wrapped up a great visit to Pittsburgh, helping kick off their 40 Days for Life campaign. Here I am at the opening event with Nikki Bruni, the local 40 Days for Life coordinator.

Around 125 people turned out to hear the great praise-and-worship band, Intent … along with Georgette Forney, co-founder the of Silent No More Awareness group. The vigil location is on a busy downtown street.

If you’ve never had a chance to actually pray at a 40 Days for Life vigil — here’s your invitation! The first step is to find the nearest location.

And if you need a bit of encouragement, here’s one first-time prayer volunteer who’s now energized and ready to do even more!

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PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
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“I’m hooked!” was the reaction of a young mom who had just finished her first-ever prayer hours at the 40 Days for Life vigil in Pensacola.

“I feel like I’m actually doing something to end abortion,” she added. “It’s great to do something … instead of just talking about abortion.”

She said she would commit to as many days of prayer at the abortion center as possible.

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ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY
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Ethel tells me the first 40 Days for Life campaign in the Atlantic City area is off to a great start — and the blessings are obvious, even when the abortion facility is closed.

“We had so many cars and trucks beeping and waving,” she said. There was also the young woman who drove up to ask for help.

“She was 9 weeks pregnant and considering and abortion,” Ethel explained. The volunteers offered God’s love — and information about how she could find assistance. The woman said she would return for more prayer … but she had to get home, where she has four other children.

Please keep this woman — and the many others just like her — in your prayers.

Devotional for Day 4, September 28, 2013

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

Intention:

We ask God that we may understand

the concept of justice, as a gift he gives

and as a responsibility that shapes our

work.

Scripture:

Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness

like a never-failing stream!

—Amos 5:24

Reflection:

Justice, a key theme of the Scriptures, is

something God does and that we too

must do.

When God intervenes to save his people

when they are helpless and in slavery

in Egypt, he “does justice.”

He manifested his justice in the plagues

that were sent upon Egypt, whereby

Pharaoh was convinced that he must

let the people go.

Justice is manifested as, in awe and

wonder, God’s people see the Red Sea

open before them, allow them to pass

without even getting their feet wet, and

then close again to drown their powerful

enemies.

God is a God of Justice; he rescues us

when we cannot save ourselves.

His justice, above all, is seen in Jesus

Christ, who, when we could not save

ourselves, rescued us from the kingdom

of sin, Satan, death, and hell.

The mighty work of Christ on the cross

and in the resurrection is the perfect

manifestation of God as the God of justice.

We, then, are to be the people of

justice; we are to “do justice” by intervening

to save the helpless in the name

and by the power of the God who saves

us who are helpless ourselves.

That’s why we have a pro-life movement;

that’s why we have a 40 Days for

Life Campaign; that’s why saving the

unborn is our business.

Prayer:

Loving heavenly Father, help us to see

the worth of all human beings by the

way in which you provide for us.

We would ask that you provide also the

faith, grace and courage to enable us to

protect that which is so precious to

you. Through Christ our Lord, amen.