Fr. Pavone calls for Pro-life Lent and Support of “40 Days for Life”
Also comments on “Super Tuesday”
Oklahoma City, OK – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life,
called upon pro-life activists today to make this Lenten season a time of
increased pro-life prayer and activism nationwide. “If we are going to repent of
sin, we have to start with the sin of abortion,” Fr. Pavone will declare today
at a major speech in Oklahoma. “Repentance begins in our Churches and then
continues as we come outside of the Church and into the streets in massive,
peaceful protest against abortion.”
Fr. Pavone and the entire Priests for Life organization are major supporters of
the “40 Days for Life”
campaign and will visit cities across the nation where this effort is being
carried out. “I look forward to working with activists where 40 Days for Life is
being implemented, as well as with other communities where similar efforts are
underway.” The women and men of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign will
mobilize across the nation as they proclaim, in public gatherings, media
interviews, legislative assemblies and Church congregations, that their abortion
hurt them and that Christ healed them.
Fr. Pavone, who travels to four states a week, also observed, “Pro-life
activists are ready to be mobilized as never before. We experience this with the
clergy, with youth groups, and also with veterans of the movement who have been
intervening at abortion mills for decades. The entire Priests for Life team will
foster this momentum in thousands of Churches and communities in the coming
weeks through its ongoing training seminars for clergy and laity, and its
television and radio programs which reach tens of millions of Americans.”
Priests for Life has provided the priests, pastors, and deacons of the country
with a simple action plan for their congregations:
1. Have each member and family of the Church pray the daily Lenten Prayer for
Life found at www.PrayerCampaign.org.
2. Preach on abortion throughout the Lenten season using the guidelines given at
www.priestsforlife.org/liturgy.
3. On one of the Sundays in Lent, provide in the bulletin one of the full page
inserts offered free of charge at
www.priestsforlife.org/bulletin.
4. Pray and foster presence at the abortion mill matched up with each particular
parish at www.priestsforlife.org/mills.
5. The Priests for Life team is ready to offer particular guidance, advice, and
encouragement to any particular pastor or priest who contacts us.
Super-Duper Tuesday
Many states had their primaries and caucuses yesterday for the Presidential race
of 2008.
It is refreshing to hear so many “I don’t knows” from the political pundits and
pollsters, because what that ultimately means is that the people are deciding
the elections, not the media or the political establishment. That is as it
should be.
As the election season progresses, the choices on each ballot will narrow. As
that happens, pro-life voters should rally around those candidates in each race
who, despite the shortcomings they may have, will best be able to win. We are
not only responsible for the consequences of voting; we are also responsible for
the consequences of not voting.
Along with the other pro-life activities we do during Lent, we should be
registering voters, including voter registration drives in Churches (see
www.PriestsforLife.org/vote) and educating the
community regarding the principles outlined at
www.PoliticalResponsibility.org.
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