On January 22, 2014 our nation will remember the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
In prayerful recognition, “Nine Days of Prayer, Penance and Pilgrimage” will take place January 18-26, 2014. This is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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This video was from 2010, but it’s still definitely very much worth watching for two reasons:
1. Unfortunately, the “eye-popping, mind-boggling corruption of the mainstream media” is still painfully obvious in how they present the prolife movement — and especially so each Jan. 22.
BUT . . .
2. It’s a great video! It makes me smile each time I watch it. It’s an inspiring, tremendous, upbeat picture of the March for LIfe and the people who take part in it each year. And that’s what the producers use to counter the lies and omissions of the media.
Thanks for everyone who visited the Rockand Right to Life website. Click on the blue image above for a report on site activity during 2013: most visited posts, where our visitors came from, over 10,000 page views!
At 3 p.m. on Jan.28, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, there will be a prayer service at the vigil site on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley to remember the victims of Planned Parenthood.
May our hearts rejoice in the wondrous gift God gave through His Son, and for the gift of Life He has given to us all. May you and yours be blessed this Christmas and in the coming year.
Representatives of organizations receiving checks at the Triune Council’s Christmas party (left to right): Chet Nawoichyk (The Fisher Foundation), Joseph Jacob (Providence Home), Peggy Beirne (Rockland Catholic Coalition), Liz O’Brien (Rockland Right to Life Committee), John Rio (Grand Knight), Karin Lancelotti (Birthright of Rockland), Nannette Morris (Good Counsel Home, Spring Valley), and Fr. Gerry Deponai (St. Anthony’s School). ~~ Photo by Frank Traina
At their annual Christmas party on Dec. 16, Triune Council #2052 of the Knights of Columbus in Pearl River again showed their commitment to protect all human life by presenting generous Christmas gifts to organization who work in behalf of the unborn, mothers and children in need of help, school children, the orphaned, the sick, and the disabled.
Grand Knight John Rio made the presentations to The Rockland Right to Life Committee, Birthright of Rockland, The Rockland Catholic Coalition, the Good Counsel Home in Spring Valley, the Fisher House Foundation, Providence Home, and St. Margaret’s and St. Anthony’s schools.
Providence Home is an orphanage run by the Little Servants of Divine Providence Charitable Society in Kerala State, India. Many of the children taken in by the sisters are handicapped or had been abandoned because they had birth defects.
Past Grand Knight Chet Nawoichyk described Fischer House as a Ronald McDonald House for the military. It provides nearby housing for military families when a loved one is hospitalized for illness, disease, and injury.
Mary-Anne and Peter Partridge
Fr. Frank Samoylo, a longtime Rockland resident, was honored for his prolife work at the 3rd Annual Concert for Life, held this year at Albertus Magnus High School in Bardonia on Nov. 21.
The performers who volunteered their talents for the concert were Peter and Mary-Anne Partridge, Veritas — the Albertus Magnus Honor Choir, the No Boundaries group from St. Peter’s in Haverstraw, and solists Toni Linn Moore and Kiera Egan from St. Gregory’s School in Garnerville.
The featured performer was Monica Peterson St. John.
Steve Possell from radio station WRCR AM 1300 was the master of ceremonies.
Veritas — the Albertus Magnus Honor Choir — performs at the Concert for Life
SAVE THE DATE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014
Buses will leave from:
St. Peter’s in Haverstraw
Sacred Heart in Suffern
More information to come soon.
Churches across the nation will be joining in prayer for the sanctity of all human life during the National Night of Prayer for LIfe, Dec. 8-9.
The prayers seek to end abortion and all offenses against the dignity of the human person, to make reparation for these sins, and to help heal those who are suffering.
In Rockland services will be held at:
St. Francis of Assisi in West Nyack
Dec. 8, 9 p.m. until midnight, with closing mass at midnight
St. Gregory Barbarigo in Garnerville
Dec. 8-9, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Adoration chapel
Everyone’s invited! There is no admission charge, but a free will donation will be appreciated — for the benefit of Good Counsel Homes. Hope to see you there!
ROCKLAND RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE 