40 Days of Life — Closing Ceremony

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IMG_5099March 24 — It was still cold, but the early spring sun was warm and welcoming on Palm Sunday — Day 40, the last day of the 40 Days for Life.

The volunteers who had been part of this 6-week prayer vigil — which began on Ash Wednesday — gathered for a closing ceremony on Perlman Drive in Spring Valley, outside the Pascack Plaza Mall where Planned Parenthood has its office.

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Msgr. Robert McCabe of St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Haverstraw led the group in the recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. The program included “God bless America” and hymns and the “Song of Our Lady of Guadalupe.”

In this 40 Days for Life campaign, over 550 lives nationwide were saved from abortion — those that we know about. One story comes from White Plains.

Sometimes all it takes to turn a woman from abortion is the presence of someone to remind her not to panic, to take time to stop and think, and listen to her heart. Someone to assure her that God is with her and that all will be well, who can point her in the direction of help and support.

Rockland Right to Life salutes the committed volunteers of the 40 Days for Life. Thank you for your prayers to end abortion, for enduring the cold, wind, and snow to witness for Life, and for being there for the unborn children and for their parents when they so desperately need a sign of hope and love.

More photos from the closing ceremony and the last week of the 40 Days of Life (click to enlarge)

Opening Ceremony    Week 1    Week 2    Week 3    Week 4

Prolife Group, Bishops Lobby against RHA Abortion Bill

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RHA-smallNew Yorkers for Constitution Freedom, Catholic bishops, and the New York State Catholic Conference lobbied in Albany Tuesday against a bill that would enshrine abortion as a “fundamental right” in New York through nine months of pregnancy.

Meeting with a representative of Sen. William Larkin, prolife senator representing Haverstraw and Stony Point.

Meeting with a representative of Sen. William Larkin, prolife senator representing Haverstraw and Stony Point.

Meanwhile the Concerned Clergy for Choice, who support abortion, released a statement urging Gov. Cuomo to pass the 10-point “Women’s Equality Act,” which includes the abortion bill, and the NYC chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) called the bishops “out of touch.”   Read more.

Prolifers Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

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IMG_5046Marching under the ‘Respect Life’ banner, 25 prolife supporters carried their message to the thousands of spectators, lining the streets of Pearl River for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade Sunday.

The Marchers represented various Rockland prolife organizations including the 40 Days for Life campaign, Divine Mercy, and the Rockland Right to Life Committee.

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Joe O’Brien, Arlette and Howie Phillips, Haverstraw Supervisor

Howie Phillips, Haverstraw Supervisor, and his wife, Arlette, marched with the Respect Life again this year.

The grand marshal of the parade was Msgr. Ed Weber, former Vicar of Rockland and pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in W. Nyack, a strong supporter of prolife efforts in the county.

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The photos below are courtesy of photojournalist Bob Reers of Pearl River.

http://bobreers.zenfolio.com/

40 Days for Life — Week Four

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice
for honesty and truth and compassion
against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world … would do this,
it would change the earth.”
~William Faulkner

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As this Lenten Season nears its end, please take part of the national 40 Days for Life campaign. It may be one of those crazy, out-of-your-comfort-zone sort of sacrifices you normally wouldn’t consider. But it may be one of those remarkable opportunities that will bring untold graces not only to you, but to many caught up in the culture of abortion.

Only one hour for the next week to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion. The closing ceremony will be on Sunday, March 24

We are on public property from 9 am until 6 pm on Perlman Drive, in Spring Valley, and from 6 pm until 9 am at the St. Gregory Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel on 21 Cinder Road in Garnerville.

God Bless You!  For more information, click here.

Week One     Week Two     Week Three

40 Days for Life — Week Three

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“Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.”
~ Mother Theresa

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Please come be part of the national 40 Days for Life campaign. Only one hour each week for the next 3 weeks to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion.

We are on public property from 9 am until 6 pm on Perlman Drive, in Spring Valley, and from 6 pm until 9 am at the St. Gregory Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel on 21 Cinder Road in Garnerville.

God Bless You!  For more information, click here.

Week One     Week Two

Stop the Reproductive Health Act

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RHA-smallLast month, Gov.Cuomo announced his plan for legislation that would establish abortion in NY as a fundamental right. And once that happens, any of the restrictions on abortion — which even Roe v. Wade left to the states to decide — would be in danger, such as parental notification laws, banning the use of public funds for abortion, and conscience laws allowing individuals and institutions to refuse to participate in abortions.

As this issue is debated, here are various resources with information you need to have.  Check it out frequently. We’lll keep adding to the list. And please send us links to anything you find that we all need to know. Email RocklandRTL@optonline.net.

40 Days for Life — Week Two

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“God loved and willed you into being.
Nobody is an accident.
You have life only by an intentional, loving, creative act of God.
You exist because God wanted you.”
~~ The Sisters of Life

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Can you help carry the message? You never know whose heart you may touch as they drive by. Or whose life you may save, because someone remembers a sign they once saw on the side of the road.  

Only one hour  each week for the next 4 weeks to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion.

We are on public property from 9 am until 6 pm on Perlman Drive, in Spring Valley, and from 6 pm until 9 am at the St. Gregory Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel on 21 Cinder Road in Garnerville.

God Bless You!  For more information, click here.

Week One

40 Days for Life — Week One

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“Human progress is neither automatic or inevitable.
Every step toward the goal of Justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle,
the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
~~Martin Luther King Jr.

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Can you make the sacrifice for the unborn? Only one hour  each week for the next 5 weeks to witness in public and pray for an end to abortion.

We are on public property from 9 am until 6 pm on Perlman Drive, in Spring Valley, and from 6 pm until 9 am at the St. Gregory Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel on 21 Cinder Road in Garnerville.

God Bless You!  For more information, click here.

Sign the Petition to Stop the RHA

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RHA-smallHelp stop the radically pro-abortion “Reproductive Health Act” (RHA).

Click here to SIGN THE PETITION.

Something else you can do: “Like” New Yorkers for Life on Facebook. This is a diverse coalition united in opposition to Gov. Cuomo’s proposal to expand the number of abortions in New York. You can also follow them on Twitter @NYS4Life.

NY4Life_1“SAYING THAT NEW YORK NEEDS MORE ABORTION IS LIKE SAYING TAXPAYERS NEED TO PAY MORE TAXES” — Kathleen Gallagher, NYS Catholic Conference.