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Welcome!
We're so glad you stopped by to see what St. Mary's Pro-Life Ministry is doing. The scope of our work focuses on promoting a culture that recognizes life as beginning at conception and ending with natural death. We seek to support those in crisis pregnancy, those who suffer post-abortion trauma, and caregivers dealing with end-of-life issues. We also seek to educate the faithful and the community on Church teachings on life issues.
A true Culture of Life extends beyond the areas our ministry focuses on. We trust that other servants of Christ will fill in the gaps. Working together, with God's grace, we will live out our mission to know, love and serve Our Lord, creating a Culture of Life in the process.
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Regular Meetings
Planning meetings are scheduled for the THIRD Tuesday of the month, 7-8 PM, at St. Mary's Parish Hall. Calendar dates for 2022 are shown below. Any changes to date/time/location should be posted here, so check a day or two ahead of time for any changes.
January 18
February 15
March 15
April 19
May 17
June 21
July 19
August 16
September 20
October 18
November 15
December 20 (subject to change)
St. Mary's Pro-Life Update- THANK YOU to parishioners, friends of the parish, and the Knights of Columbus who donated items for our Angel Friend baby shower! Gloria, the mom who was honored through our parish's Angel Friend program, sent this note: "Thank you so much for today. I sincerely appreciate you all. God bless each and every one of you." Her baby is due in just a week or two.
- Our parish, through the Gabriel Network Angel Friend program, is now sponsoring TWO mothers in crisis pregnancy. We are assigned moms-to-be and accompany them through their pregnancy and early motherhood, a two-year commitment. Please keep these moms and our volunteers in your prayers.
- The March for Life was Jan 21, 2022.
- Prayers and fasting are asked for the conversion of hearts of US leaders who are actively working to pass expansive abortion legislation. Details can be found here: https://
benedictinstitute.org/ archbishop-calls-for-prayers- for-nancy-pelosi/ - Public Prayer for Life continues each second Saturday of the month in Waldorf, at the Rt 5/St. Charles Parkway intersection, at 10AM. Event lasts one hour. Come join us!
Maryland Catholic Conference Physician-assisted suicide Information
September 23, 2021 | Annapolis, MD
Dear Friend,
Congress is expected to vote Friday, Sept. 24 at 10:30 a.m. on the most radical abortion bill of all time.
The ongoing push to force taxpayer-funded abortion in the budget process is terrible. The so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” is even worse.
In addition to forcing taxpayer dollars to fund abortion, this bill would mean:
- Abortion on demand for all 9 months of pregnancy imposed nationwide, even in states that don’t want it.
- Every pro-life law would be eliminated - federal, state and local. This includes laws on parental notification for minor girls, informed consent and health or safety protections for abortion facilities.
- Doctors and nurses likely would be forced to perform, assist in and refer for abortion against their deeply-held beliefs.
- Employers and insurers would be forced to cover or pay for abortion.
We need to tell the U.S. House of Representatives that this horrible bill must never be enacted.
Tell Congress: No to this extreme pro-abortion bill.
Learn more about this dangerous bill from the USCCB.
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ALERT! Archbishop Cordileone Issues Urgent Call to Stop a Radical Abortion Bill in Nancy Pelosi’s Congress
“Any reasonable person with a basic sense of morality and inkling of decency cannot but shudder in horror at such a heinous evil being codified in law… This proposed legislation is nothing short of child sacrifice, and…the type of legislation one would expect from a devout Satanist, not a devout Catholic.”
Read Archbishop Cordileone’s Full Statement
These are the fighting words that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco just issued in regard to the proposed legislation in Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives.
This abuse of justice attempts to legalize abortion through the legislative process in all fifty states for any reason whatsoever, anticipating the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision removing all restrictions from abortion. Now Pelosi and Company want to make it the ironclad law of the land.
To add insult to injury, the bill is deceptively titled the "Women's Health Act of 2021” (HR 3755) and would be the most radical of all legislative acts in favor of abortion ever to be proposed in our country, and the most sweeping.
His Excellency is right to be outraged at this “heinous evil being codified into law” – one can only wonder why all Catholics are not equally outraged by this!
We have to be the Faithful Echo of the Church’s call to spiritual warfare, and there is no better time than now.
The Archbishop has called for all Catholics to join him in the most effective means necessary to combat this crime against humanity: prayer and fasting.
“I therefore ask all Catholics in our country immediately to pray and fast for members of Congress to do the right thing and keep this atrocity from being enacted in the law. A child is not an object to be thrown away, and neither is a mother’s heart.”
His Excellency is asking us to pray the Litany of Reparation in Honor of the Blessed Sacrament with him tomorrow, Saturday, September 25 at 3 PM (PT) / 6 PM (ET). Register for the livestream via Zoom here.
Even if you are not able to pray with the Archbishop tomorrow, please unite yourself spiritually with the intention by praying the Litany below at a time that is convenient for you and your family. And keep praying it!
We must follow a courageous spiritual leader into the deep of spiritual battle for the unborn.
And don’t forget to join Archbishop Cordileone this coming First Friday, October 1st for the monthly Operation Storm Heaven Mass offered at St. Dominic’s Church in San Francisco in the Extraordinary Form.
Litany of Reparation In Honor of the Blessed Sacrament
Lord, have mercy on us; Lord, have mercy on us
Christ, have mercy on us; Christ, have mercy on us
Lord, have mercy on us; Lord, have mercy on usGod the Father of Mercy, Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Mediator between God and man, Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit, the Enlightener of hearts, Have mercy on us.
Holy and undivided Trinity, Have mercy on us.O Sacred Host! Victim of reparation for the sins of the world, Have mercy on us.
O Sacred Host! Annihilated on the altar for us and by us, Have mercy on us.
O Sacred Host! Despised and neglected, Have mercy on us.
O Sacred Host! Neglected and abandoned in Your temples, Have mercy on us.Be merciful unto us: Spare us, O Lord.
Be merciful unto us: Hear us, O Lord.For so many unworthy Communions, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the irreverence of Christians, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the continual blasphemies of the impious, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the infamous discourses made in Your Holy Temples, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the crimes of sinners, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the sacrileges which profane Your sacrament of love, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the coldness of the greater part of Your children, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For their contempt of Your loving invitations, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the infidelity of those who call themselves Your friends, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For the abuse of Your grace, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For our unfaithfulness, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For our delay in loving You, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For our tepidity in Your Holy Service, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your bitter sadness at the loss of souls, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your long waiting at the door of our hearts, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your loving sighs, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your loving tears, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your loving imprisonment, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.
For Your loving death, We offer You our reparations, O Lord.That You spare us, that You hear us, We sinners beseech You, hear us.
That You will make known Your love for us in this most Holy Sacrament, We sinners beseech You, hear us.
That You will vouchsafe to accept our reparation, made in the spirit of humility, We sinners beseech You, hear us.Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world: Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world: Hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world: Have mercy on us, O Lord.Let us pray:
Lord Jesus, Who has chosen to expose Yourself to all the outrages of the impious, rather than withdraw Your Sacred Body from our Churches, grant us the grace to bewail, with true bitterness of heart, the injuries and sacrileges committed against you, and to repair as far as lies in our power, and with sincere love, the many ignominies and contempts You have received, and still continue to receive, in this ineffable mystery, Who lives and reigns with God, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. Amen.
Source: CatholicCulture.org
Your friend in Christ,
Thomas J McKenna
http://www.catholicaction.org/Catholic Action For Faith And Family · PO Box 910308, San Diego, CA 92191-0308, United States
- THANK YOU to parishioners, friends of the parish, and the Knights of Columbus who donated items for our Angel Friend baby shower! Gloria, the mom who was honored through our parish's Angel Friend program, sent this note: "Thank you so much for today. I sincerely appreciate you all. God bless each and every one of you." Her baby is due in just a week or two.