40 Days for Life: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023

    As Catholics, one goal that we have is to spread our Catholic faith. The best way we can accomplish this is through our prayer, words, and actions. We all have a duty to actively oppose evils such as abortion. Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish has committed to public prayer and witness against abortion on the sidewalk across from Planned Parenthood, 470 Pleasant Street in Worcester.

    Many conversions and saves are happening everyday due to prayer. Please continue to pray and be sure to invite a friend or family member. Please see the dates and times listed below to be accompanied by fellow parishoners. There will always be someone from our parish on the sidewalk during these times.

    (PP) - Planned Parenthood
    (PPC) - Problem Pregnancy Chapel

    If you need help finding someone to vigil with you outside of these times, please contact one of the members from the 40 Days for Life Leadership team:

    Julie Koss-Stephany
    Phone: 508-320-2965
    Email: jksredvette@me.com

40 Days for Life (40 Dni dla Życia) jest międzynarodową kampanią mającą na celu zakończenie procederu aborcji, czyli zabijania dzieci nienarodzonych. Kampania polega na modlitwie, postach, pokojowych czuwaniach przed klinikami aborcyjnymi.

W Wielkim Poście pragniemy po raz kolejny uczestniczyć w tej inicjatywie. Nasza parafia proszona jest o udział we czasach podane wyżej. Prosimy o Wasze zaangażowanie i świadectwo.

Od roku 1973, kiedy to w USA zalegalizowano aborcję, zamordowano ponad 63 miliony dzieci nienarodzonych. Dzieci nienarodzone nie mogą się same bronić, potrzebują nas, abyśmy przemówili w ich imieniu.

40 Days for Life —  https://www.40daysforlife.com

    40 Days for Life is an internationally coordinated 40-day campaign that aims to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses. Sign up for vigil hours using this website.

Problem Pregnancy of Worcester — https://www.problempregnancy.org

    If you’re facing an unplanned pregnancy and want help with your next steps, visit Problem Pregnancy. Problem Pregnancy provides free pregnancy tests, limited ultrasound, and abortion consultations. Contact us to talk with someone about your situation and learn about all of your options. All of our services are free and confidential.

Rachel’s Vinyard — https://www.rachelsvineyard.org

    Rachel's Vineyard is a safe place to renew, rebuild and redeem hearts broken by abortion. Weekend retreats offer you a supportive, confidential and non-judgmental environment where women and men can express, release and reconcile painful post-abortive emotions to begin the process of restoration, renewal and healing.

Visitation House — https://visitationhouse.org

    Visitation House was envisioned by Ruth V.K. Pakaluk, mother of seven and dedicated supporter of life in Massachusetts. Ruth recognized the urgent need to establish a home for pregnant women in Worcester County, one that would surround them with a culture of life, allowing them to choose life for their babies and for themselves. Ruth died heroically at the age of 41 before her vision became a reality but her passion for helping women with unplanned pregnancies inspired those around her to fulfill her dream.
 

American Life League — https://www.all.org

    ALL is the oldest grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization in the United States. Cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown and nine other dedicated pro-life Americans, American Life League is an organization committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to death. ALL is rooted in pro-life integrity that stands up for every innocent human being whose life is threatened by what St. John Paul II called “the culture of death.”

Priests for Life — https://www.priestsforlife.org

    Priests for Life has come to signify two distinct but related movements within the wider pro-life movement. On one level, as described below, Priests for Life refers to a very specific effort to galvanize the clergy to preach, teach, and mobilize their people more effectively in the effort to end abortion and euthanasia. On another level, Priests for Life represents a family of ministries that reach and enrich every aspect of the pro-life movement, for clergy and laity alike, in a wide variety of activities. This has come to pass precisely because priests are not ordained for themselves, but for the people. So in activating clergy, we are activating all the segments of the Church, the pro-life movement, and the wider society in the defense of life.

    We refer to this wider family of ministries as Gospel of Life Ministries, to indicate that what unites them all is the Gospel of Life, the good news that life is victorious over death! So whether you are clergy or laity, young or old, active or inactive, and whatever your religious or ethnic background, you're in the right place if you want to do something to restore protection to the most vulnerable members of the human family!