Sisters of Life Respond to HHS Mandate

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“Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act each of us will be required by law to obtain health insurance, or face fines. Since this HHS mandate will require every insurer to include abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and artificial contraception, we will not be able to obtain any coverage that is free from those ‘services,’ and we will be forced to pay for them directly. Since we are neither employers, nor employees, of any religious institution, we cannot even take advantage of the ‘religious exemption’ contained in the new regulations or the ‘compromise.’ “

Click to read the entire statement:  Sisters of Life Response to the HHS Mandate

The Sisters invite you to join with them in prayer and fasting that our Nation will be protected against this great threat against liberty.

The March for Life: Eileen’s Story

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Description of video images: We began our Journey at 6:10 am on a sleety, cold, Monday morning.

Jerry Moriarity led us in the Joyful Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary. We prayed for a safe journey (Jeff is our bus driver) and for God to turn our beloved country of America from death to LIFE.

Father Antonio Astudillo from St. John the Baptist in Piermont prayed the Finding of Our Lord Jesus in the Temple in Spanish.  Continue reading →

Team Rockland at the March for Life 2012

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At the end of the journey -- The Rockland marchers at the Supreme Court

At 5:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 23, we began to gather — at Albertus Magnus High School and in the parking lots of Saint Gregory’s and Saint Francis’s Church.

It was dark, raining lightly and just about freezing. The roads threatened to be icy, but for the most part they weren’t. But no matter the weather, the prolife marchers from Rockland would be there. And so we head south to Washington, D.C., three buses among hundreds coming from all points of the compass, converging on the National Mall. There we’ll speak one message with one voice: Abortion must end.  Continue reading →

At the Rally for Life 2012

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At the Rally for Life at the National Mall, before the March begins.

It all begins at the National Mall.

From every state in the union, hundreds of thousands of prolifers — some of whom have been on the road for days – surge toward this gathering point, where the March for Life will begin.

Here they assemble for the grand opener for the March — the Rally for Life – where the speakers – statesmen, religious leaders, and giants in the prolife movement – give eloquent voice to why we’re all here. Continue reading →

MARCH FOR LIFE — Rebroadcast Schedule

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Photo by Robert Reers, 2001

Events for the 39th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., will be rebroadcast tonight and Saturday. You can see the Rockland banner go by around 15 minutes after the actual march begins.

These “encore” showings of the Eternal Word Television Network coverage are available on Cablevision (Optimum) channel 135 and Verizon Fios channel 285.

Monday, Jan. 23 — 11:00 pm to 5:00 am (Tuesday)
Saturday, Jan. 28 — 2:30 pm to 8 pm

Rockland Right to Life website coverage of our Rockland marchers’ trip will begin tomorrow night, and we will continue to post new stories through the week as photos and other materials become available.

If you were on this trip and would like to share your photos, videos, or observations and comments, please send them to our email address: RocklandRTL@optonline.net.

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!