Category Archives: Prayer for Life

Respect Life Month — Being Prolife

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imagesThere’s no one season for being prolife. No one thing we do.

Rather, it’s a daily commitment that rises from our belief in the sacredness of life, the dignity of every human being. It leads us along a path of service toward others, especially the most vulnerable and those most in need. It causes us to become involved, to share, to pray, and to stand up and speak out when necessary.

Yet the month of October — Respect Life Month — is a special time to deepen our insight of what being prolife is all about. It’s highlighted by liturgies in our churches and observances in the public square. We gather in prayer services and protests, we join in discussions and song.

We’re drawn to events that bring us together because it’s with others that we find our strength. By sharing the sorrows, the uncertainties, the joys, and the exhilaration of the prolife mission we find the place where the courage comes from, and the hope, and the inspiration to keep on going in the year to come.

Will you join us? Here is a short list of some of the events going on in and around Rockland during Respect Life Month 2013. Please select one (or several) that seem right for you — and come! You’ll be glad you did!

More information about each event will be appearing on this site as we get closer to the date. So please check back. If your group or church is doing anything for Respect Life month, please let us know so we can post it on this site and pass the word along. Email: RocklandRTL@optonline.net.

National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children
Sept. 14 at 5 pm (before the 5:30 pm. Mass)
Garden of Innocence
South side of St. Mary of the Assumption Church
46 Conklin Ave., Haverstraw

40 Days for Life — Opening Ceremony
Sept. 25 at 3 pm
Perelman Drive, Spring Valley (on public property, near the Planned Parenthood office)

40 Days for Life 
Sept. 25 and daily for the next six weeks
9 am to 5 pm (and overnight at the Adoration Chapel of St. Gregory Barbarigo in Garnerville)
Perelman Drive, Spring Valley (on public property, near the Planned Parenthood office)

The Manhattan Declaration Returns Home
Sept. 25, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Columbia University
525 W. 120th St., NYC
Join Timothy Cardinal Dolan for an interfaith prayer service and religious liberty forum

21st Rockland County Life Chain
Oct. 6, 2:00 to 3:30 pm
Intersection of Route 59 and Middletown Road, Nanuet

Good Counsel Communion Breakfast
Oct. 12 at 9:15 am (Mass followed by breakfast)
Marian Shrine, 147 Filor’s Lane, Stony Point
to benefit the Spring Valley Good Counsel home

New York State Right to Life Convention
Oct. 19
Holiday Inn in Oneonta, NY

Concert for Life
Nov. 21 at 7 pm (free, donation requested)
Albertus Magnus High School  [CORRECTION — not the Marian Shrine this year]
to benefit the Spring Valley Good Counsel home

Praying for America — July 4

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The 237th  birthday of America began with exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament by newly ordained hometown friend, Father Kenny Riello.

Father Kenny is such a blessing to the pro-life community and we are so grateful for his presence, especially in the sacrament of Confession.

Fifty plus people from all ethnic backgrounds and ages came to pray directly to Jesus for an America that is placed under God’s protection by obeying God’s Laws.

At 11:15 AM we began the Most Holy Rosary and there were about 100 people praying the Luminous Mysteries, the decades given by Blessed John Paul II to the Roman Catholic Church.

At 12 Noon, there were hundreds of people participating in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Our celebrants were Father Brendan Gormley and Father Kenny Riello (Father Nicholas Callahan was stuck in horrendous traffic but with us in prayer)

Father Brendan spoke of an America that is free and that freedom comes with choices and it is our Godly choices that truly set us free.

God is a loving and merciful God who can heal our America just as he healed the paralytic man in today’s Gospel:  Matthew 9:1-8

“When Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.”

Special thanks to our lector:  Richard Bruno, founder of Our Lady of Guadalupe Rosarians.

Just before the final blessing, Father Brendan went before the statue of Mary Help of Christians and prayed the 5th Decade of the Glorious Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary- Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth!

To Jesus through Mary we beg our America to be a country that respects and obeys the Laws of God.

Special thanks to Peggy Beirne , Monica Peterson-St. John, and Maryann and Peter Partridge.

We in PRO-LIFE Rockland County are filled with thankful hearts.

Prayer for America on Independence Day

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Adoration

People gather for Mass at the Salesian National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Stony Point.

“A Morning of Prayer for America,” organized by the Rockland County Catholic Coalition, was held today at the Marian Shrine in Stony Point.

The services began with the Exposition of Blessed Sacrament and concluded with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, celebrated by Fr. Brendan Gormley, of St. Barnabas in the Bronx.

Fr. Brendan Gormley, celebrant and homilist

Fr. Brendan Gormley, celebrant and homilist

Fr. Brendan formerly served in St. Paul’s in Congers and was very active in the prolife movement in Rockland County.

In his Independence Day homily, Fr. Brendan spoke of the two gifts of God that are also cherished American values — the right to life and the right to be free. He said that the freedom to choose and decide is truly a gift that makes us human, but that real freedom lies in choosing what we ought to do and not merely what we want to do.  Continue reading →

Pray for Life

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“This kind of (of evil) cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
— Mark 9:29 [RSV]

In the final weeks of this legislative session (which ends on June 20), we expect pro-abortion forces to push to  bring the bill to radically expand abortion in NY to the Senate floor for a vote.

At  this time, several local churches have planned vigils and services to ask for God’s intercession against this newest threat to the unborn and to pray for a restoration of the culture of life in our state. Everyone is welcome. Please try to attend one of them and spend some time in prayer.

Holy Hour for Life
Friday, June 7
6 to 7 pm, St. John’s Church, Piermont

Pray for Life — First Friday with the Lord
Friday, June 7
7:30 to 10:30 pm*, St. Ann’s Church, Nyack
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at 7:30 pm and ending with Benediction at 10:30 pm  *Note time change

Prolife Mass
Monday, June 3
7:30 pm, St. Aedan’s Church, Pearl River
Celebrant will be Msgr. Emmet R. Nevin of St. Catherine’s in Blauvelt
Sponsored by the Rockland County Prolife Vicariate, every first Monday

Rosary for Life
Saturday, June 1
5 pm, St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Haverstraw
Just prior to 5:30 Mass on Saturday
for protection from the abortion expansion act

Prayer for Life
Friday, May 31
1 to 7 pm, Sacred Heart Church, Suffern
Adoration from 1 pm to 7 pm with a Holy Hour at 7 pm.

 

 

 

 

Jan. 22 — Remember the Victims of 40 Years of Legalized Abortion

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Jan 22 2012There will be prayer all day outside Planned Parenthood in Spring Valley in observance of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion America. The victims have been 55 million babies — as well as wounded parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles, and all of us in society.

If you can take an hour between 9 am and 6 pm, please contact RachelMinister@aol.com or call 845-492-6709.

Holy Hour for Life Held at St. Peter’s

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On Jan. 21, a snowy Saturday, the Holy Hour for LIFE began right after the 5 pm Mass at St. Peter’s Church in Haverstraw, NY.

People from all walks of LIFE came to pray for the protection of the most vulnerable among us — the unborn.

A beautiful singer named Carolyn was accompanied by two gifted guitarists as the music moved our souls to the depth of our very being.

Carolyn’s pin says:  JESUS, PROTECT AND SAVE THE UNBORN- Carolyn recently gave birth to a baby girl.

As the service began, the altar servers processed to the altar carrying the crucifix with pastor of St. Peter’s  Father Thomas Madden and Father Fredy.

Jesus would even pay for the sin of abortion on His Cross. Jesus paid in full so forgiveness, mercy, and healing could happen.

Throughout the hour of prayer there were beautiful roses on either side of the altar. The rose is the sign for the pro-life movement.

Father Madden read us Psalm 139:
“For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”

Father Fredy prayed the Divine Praises in Spanish during Benediction.

He spoke about the need to pray for God’s protection for the unborn for God hears every prayer.

As people prayed the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, alternating the decades between English and Spanish, you could almost hear the babies’ soft voices,  as if they were joining in the PRAYER POWER!

NATIONAL NIGHT OF PRAYER FOR LIFE

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Let Us Pray for Our Nation
Thursday, Dec. 8, 9:00 pm to Friday, Dec. 9, 1:00 am.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament starts at 9 pm.
Mass will be at Midnight

During the Hour of Unity (12 am to 1 am), we will be united with churches across the country in prayer to end abortion and all offenses against the Culture of Life, to make reparation for these sins, and to pray for the healing of those who are suffering as a result of them.
St. Francis of Assisi, 128 Parrott Rd., W. Nyack