PRO-LIFE & RESPECT LIFE PROGRAM

Contact: David Guerra, Pro-Life Coordinator, Our Lady of Guadalupe & Knights of Columbus Council 8306, 210-681-6932, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Parish Pro-Life/Respect Life Committee - Actively promoting a renewed respect for human life is the responsibility of every Catholic. The parish pro-life committee assists in a special way by helping to make the parish a center of life, a place where parishioners understand the issues and the importance of meeting the needs of those who are most vulnerable—especially mothers and their unborn children, and those who are seriously ill or dying and their families. It may be a distinct committee, or at times it might be a subcommittee of another parish organization. Whatever its structure, its membership include representatives of both adult and youth parish groups, members of organizations that represent persons with disabilities, persons of minority cultures, and those responsible for education and pastoral care.

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PRO-LIFE SAVING RESOURCES

Allied Women's Center, 102 Marshall St, San Antonio, Texas 78212 Office: 210-224-7077, Hotline: 210-354-HELP

Seaton Home  is a residential facility that provides housing and supportive services for homeless, abused, pregnant and/or parenting teens and their children. Although we are not an emergency shelter, we do provide services to teens that are homeless and without resources. Located in San Antonio, Texas, Seton Home operates on eight acres of gated property in a park-like setting including a playground for resident's children, landscaped gardens, and an indoor-outdoor chapel.

Guadalupe Home, 1223 S. Trinity San Antonio, TX – 78207, 210-476-0707

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PRO-LIFE RECOVERY RESOURCES

Project Rachel  Do you have a secret? A secret that steals your joy and peace? When it comes to abortion, we have all failed in some way. "Why can't I get past this?" you ask. You can. Come to a Project Rachel Retreat or support group. There is a retreat on March 17 and a 7-week group starting soon. Call 342-4673 for confidential information. That's 342-HOPE. Or go online at www.anewchoice.org. You are not alone.

Rachel's Vineyard is a safe place to renew, rebuild and redeem hearts broken by abortion. Weekend retreats offer you a supportive, confidential and non-judgmental environment where women and men can express, release and reconcile painful post-abortive emotions to begin the process of restoration, renewal and healing.

Silent No More The Silent No More Awareness Campaign is an effort to make the public aware of the devastation abortion brings to women, men, and their families. Our hope is that the emotional and physical pain of abortion will no longer be shrouded in secrecy and silence, but rather exposed and healed. Believing that women deserve better than abortion we pray this effort will make abortion unthinkable as every culture develops ways to help women and men embrace their pre-born children.

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PRO-LIFE ORGANIZATION INFORMATION

40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program: prayer and fasting, constant vigil and community outreach. Following successful local 40 Days for Life campaigns from 2004-2006, the first national campaign was conducted in more than 80 cities in fall 2007.

Heroic Media is a faith-based non-profit that reduces abortion by creating a Culture of Life through television, billboard and internet advertising which connects women in crisis with life-affirming pregnancy centers.

Knight of Columbus, Recommended Pro-Life Links A listing of recommended pro-life Web sites. Uncompromisingly pro-life, the Knights of Columbus is pleased to point to other, more specialized organizations that carry on the cause of life.

Priests for Life offers support and information on pro life and anti abortion. Find facts and arguments against abortion and pro-life pros and cons.

San Antonio Archdiocese Life Justice Peace Office of Life Justice or call Rosio Gonzalez, 210-734-1655 (direct)

San Antonio Coalition for Life

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Pro-Life The Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, under the guidance and direction of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities, works to teach respect for all human life from conception to natural death, and organize for its protection.

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ACTIVITIES

Sun, Jan 22, 2012 - SAN ANTONIO RIGHT TO LIFE RALLY
Please join us to remember the 50 million babies lost to abortion from 2:00 -3:00 p.m. at Milam Park, (across from Santa Rosa Hospital)Invocation: Bishop Oscar Cantu Address: Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller Speaker: Richard Reyna, Guadalupe Radio.  For information call or email Mary Thomas, 210-690-9801 or 210-601-9719, or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tue, Jan 24, 2012 - OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE-HELOTES 5TH ANNUAL ROSARY & MASS FOR PEACE & JUSTICE sponsored by our Knights of Columbus. It is coming up on 39 years since the tragic Roe v. Wade decision that has resulted in the legal sanctioning of abortions. We will pray a Pro-Life rosary for Peace and Justice at 6:30pm in the Church, prior to our regularly scheduled Mass at 7pm as part of the Respect Life Program. The "Rosary and Mass for Life" shall be observed as a particular day of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion, and of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life.  Contact David Guerra, 210-681-6932, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Sat, Jan 28, 2012 - ROE V. WADE MEMORIAL DAY FOR LIFE
The Office of Life, Justice and Peace of the Archdiocese of San Antonio is sponsoring a Roe v Wade Memorial Day for Life on Saturday, January 28th. Bishop Cantu will celebrate a 8am Mass at St. Mary Magdalen, 1710 Clower, San Antonio, followed by a Rosary procession to Planned Parenthood and back (9:30-1100am). After the procession, for those that wish, we will be taking buses to join the Texas Rally for Life in Austin (11:30-3:30pm). Bus tickets are $15. Lunch is included. Help our parish show San Antonio we are prolife! Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves by attending these prolife activities. Informational flyers are available in the parish office. Register right away – space is limited! Call Matt, 210-734-1952, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to register.