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Respect Life
Visit the Archdiocese of Miami Respect
Life Ministry
Life Issues Workshop-
Saturday, May 19th in St. Mark Parish Hall, from 9:00AM
until 3:00 PM. Choose to know the facts about what the
Church really teaches on the Life Issues. Please RSVP
Maureen at 954-981-2229 or
ilovelife@bellsouth.net , since a lunch will be
served at no charge. For more information, please pick
up a flyer in the church or chapel, or go to
www.respectlifemiami.org. This workshop is
necessary for volunteers who wish to help at our crisis
pregnancy centers.
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Promotion and support of the unborn
child through various activities such as the Walk for
Life, Life Chain, Saturday Prayer Vigils, and letter
writing campaigns. Supports the Diocesan Respect
Life Ministry with appeals for newborn supplies,
furniture and food, extensive counseling for women
considering abortion as well as support and counseling
for women who have had an abortion via "Project Rachel."
The entire worshipping community who
are interested in learning more and becoming involved,
or are in need of support are encouraged to call.
If you are a man or woman who is suffering because
of a past abortion, hope and healing are waiting with Project Rachel at
954-981-2984 or 1-888-456-4673 All calls are
confidential. If you are pregnant and need help, please call the Respect Life Office at 954-963-2229.
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If you think you might be pregnant and would like a free pregnancy test, or if
you know you are pregnant and
need help, please call the Hollywood Respect Life Office at 954-963-2229.
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The Respect Life Office is in need of the following
items: basinets, Pack and Play, cribs and mattresses,
strollers, diapers/pull-ups, baby lotion/shampoo,
receiving blankets, diaper bags, size 2 boys and girls
light weight clothes, maternity clothes. There is a long
list of anxious new moms who chose life for their babies
and are now in need of these items. Please keep us in
mind for donations of the items listed above. Bring them
to St. Mark or call at 954-963-2229.
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FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE HAD ABORTIONS
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I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The
Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and
she
does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision.
The
wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and
remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose
hope.
Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not
already
done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father
of
mercies is ready to give you His forgiveness and His peace in the Sacrament of
Reconciliation. You will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost
and you
will also be able to ask forgiveness from your child, who is now living in the
Lord. With the friendly and
expert help and advice of other people, and as a result of your own painful
experience, you can be among the
most eloquent defenders of everyone’s right to life. Through your commitment to
life, whether by accepting the
birth of other children or by welcoming and caring for those most in need of
someone to be close to then, you
will become promoters of a new way of looking at human life. The Gospel of Life
by John Paul II.
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