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Respect Life Radio
Respect Life on the radio…Catch monthly Respect Life updates on Catholic Community Radio’s Wake Up show every first Wednesday at 7:35am. Learn more about Catholic Community Radio here… http://www.catholiccommunityradio.org
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1000 Ultrasound Machines donated!
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Spiritual Adoption
THE FIRST MONTH AFTER CONCEPTION
Your spiritually adopted baby has been quite active over the past month. Already, your baby is 10,000 times bigger than at conception and has developed the foundations of his or her nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord, by the 20th day. During the first 4 weeks, the baby’s organs are starting to form. Your baby is the most vulnerable during the next month to being aborted. Pray that the Lord of Life might move the heart of this baby’s mother to give him or her the most precious gift — the gift of life.
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Prayer for Unborn
Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life. Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood. Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image—as well as theirs—made for eternal life. Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother alone can give. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
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Natural Family Planning Week July 21-27
(click each title for link)
NFP Resources and Articles
- Why Natural Family Planning Differs from Contraception
- Woman's New Life Center Fertility Care
- Office of Marriage and Family Life
- For Your Marriage
- What Natural Family Planning Isn't
- How Knowing Your Fertility Can Catch Diseases Early
- Women Speak on NFP
- Straight Talk on NFP: Man to Man
- How NFP Changed My Life
- Be Her Joseph!
Archdiocesan Natural Family Planning ClassesWith professional instruction, Natural Family Planning has proven itself to be safe, effective, and a moral way for couples to plan their families. It is a method which respects the meaning of human sexuality as God created it and thus marital love is enhanced and strengthened. This class series the Office of Marriage and Family Life is offering in the SymptoPro™ Method of Natural Family Planning will be conducted by Kelly Donahue of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The dates of the class series are August 30, September 13, September 27, and October 25, 2019. Hours are 6:30 PM-8:30 PM. The classes will be held in the Most Holy Trinity Family Life Center in Covington. The cost is $100 and includes all classes and materials. Pre-registration is required. Register online https://nolacatholicfla.regfox.com/sympto-thermal-nfp-course
Respect Life NewsThe Trump administration announced that parts of the Protect Life Rule, which prohibits recipients of Title X family planning funds to refer or provide abortion services, will go into effect immediately. The Protect Life Rule will strip about $60 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood , whose clinics both refer for abortion services and are co-located with abortion facilities. Planned Parenthood presently receives about one-fifth of the total amount of Title X funds distributed and serves about 40 percent of all clients who benefit from Title X. For complete details see the Catholic News Agency article.
Beautiful weather, great music & speakers made for an uplifting day for the Louisiana Life March in Baton Rouge on Saturday, January 26, 2019. Six parishioners from St. Mary Magdalen rode the bus from St. Edward and participated in this year’s march by standing for life in our State’s Capitol on the 46th anniversary of Roe V. Wade.
Prayer for LifeAlmighty God, Our Father, you have given us life and intend for us to live forever. Grant us your blessings as we stand together and pray for LIFE. Ground us in the belief that human life is sacred, because all people were made in your image and likeness. And give us the courage to stand up and defend all life from creation until natural death. Help us to teach by word and example that all men, women and children, in every land, on every continent are precious because we are a gift from God, who is all Love. Grace us with the strength and the wisdom we need to eliminate poverty, discrimination and ignorance that diminish the value of life in our country. May the tender mercy of God shine on those who sit in darkness and death’s shadow and guide our feet into the path of peace. Amen.
Humanae Vitae
Pope Paul IV wrote and dated the encyclical Humane Vitae July 25, 1968 and it was issued at a Vatican press conference on July 29, 1968 making it 50 years old. Section 17 of the encyclical contained 4 predictions made by Pope Paul IV, there would be:
1) An increase in marital infidelity.
2) A general lowering of moral standards.
3) A loss of respect for women (man would “reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires”).
4) Governments would coerce people into using contraception and intervene in citizens’ sexual relationships.
The Pope's predictions were controversial in 1968. Many of the predictions have come true, but the debate has shifted to whether contraception had any influence on those societal changes.