Issue: # 25January 2013
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MARCH FOR LIFE Washington DC

 

  

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Entries Dead Line - Contest 2013 

 

 

   

 

    

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COMING EVENTS

  

  

MARCH 

 

4-22 Generation        

        Life in 

  our Diocese

 

14  Youth Awards

       Celebration at

    Kellenberg 

        Memorial H.S.

  

 

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Project Rachel
Project Rachel
 
March for Life 2011
March for Life 2011

 

 

Respect Life Awards 2012
Respect Life Awards 2012

 
  

"Faith working through love" (Gal 5:6) becomes a new criterion of 

      understanding and action that changes the whole of man's life

 (cf. Rom 12:2; Col 3:9-10; Eph 4:20-29; 2 Cor 5:17).

                                                                 Porta Fidei Pope Benedict XVI

Greetings and Happy New Year! 

Year Of Faith  by joining the DRVC in prayer or at the March for Life this January 25th, Friday in D.C! A Teen's First March for Life is a powerful witness to life as well as a visit to the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception which will be held from Thursday afternoon, January 24, through Friday morning, January 25, 2013.Please call the Respect Life Office for the NEW March for Life Sign (see below) and free copies of the New LI Catholic Magazine.

The U.S. Catholic bishops have launched a major pastoral initiative calling for prayer and penance to help build a culture that is favorable to life, marriage and religious liberty.The Nine Days of Prayer Penance and Pilgrimage include ways for all to participate during 1/19 thru 1/27 and during the 40th Anniversary of Roe vs.Wade. You can find out more about Religious Liberty  and take action at First American Freedom. Please also remember in your prayers the many who are suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy and those who are suffering the loss of loved ones in the Newtown tragedy. Please see A Call to Action in Response to Newtown Tragedy.

 Come join us in Washington DC
40th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
  

Come to Washington DC for the 40th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. Join us to witness to life."The birth of every child changes the world; let every child be born for a better world". RVC Diocese will be in three different locations:  

* Youth Rally - The Verizon Center. 8 am

* 7th St.and Madison Drive at 11:15 am for the March

* Prayer Service. & Blessings at St. Joseph on Capitol Hill at 1:30 - 3:30 

   PM. Click for more info.
 

NOTE: The Insurance Policy for the buses to Washington has a new amount this year.  Please have the bus company you are contracting with sign it and keep it until the contract is expired. (Insurance Policy for Buses to Washington DC.  

  

  JANUARY 29TH is the CLOSING DATE FOR ALL CONTEST MATERIAL

   All Catholic youth in grades 7-12 who live in the Rockville Centre Diocese  and attend Catholic elementary,high schools, parish religious education    programs or other approved programs are invited to join the

    2013 Respect Life Contest and can participate in these categories

● Poetry   ● Bookmark Design     ● Essay     ● Music             ● Photography   ● Video Clip

The contest gives our youth the opportunity to show through words, images, and song, expressed in a way that is in harmony with our faith, how they respect the gift of life. Winners will receive monetary awards in support of their future education.

1st place winner $400   

2nd place winner $250                         3rd place winner $150

 

For further information contact your parish or school office. Registration forms may be downloaded from the diocesan website www.drvc.org/respectlife
 Respect Life Office (516) 678-5800 Ext. 626 & 381 

Closing date to enter your contest material is JANUARY 29, 2013

 

 

 

REGISTER NOW for Gen Life to visit your parish!

Generation Life will be visiting our Diocese for three weeks this March! 

               

     Generation Life is a movement of young people committed to building a Culture of Life by educating their peers on the pro-life and chastity messages and developing new leaders for the pro-life movement. 

     School-wide or grade-wide assemblies enable Generation Life to reach many students in one-shot. The messages are delivered compassionately yet truthfully. Topics can include: theology of the body, pro-life issues, or chastity. Please see their presentations: 

HIGH SCHOOL SERIES PRESENTATIONS 

Grade Schools Presentations and

Colleges!

For more information and registration  click here 

                  NYS Legislative Session
  

Here is the 2013 Session Calendar. The shaded days indicate days when state lawmakers are in Albany; unshaded days indicate days when you have an opportunity to meet with your state lawmakers in their district offices.

 OPPOSE THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT 

The Reproductive Health Act (RHA) has been introduced in the state legislature for the 2013-2014 legislative session, and is numbered S.438, sponsored by Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D - Westchester), who was just elected to the position of Senate Democratic Leader in the NYS Senate. Seventeen additional Democratic Senators co-sponsor the measure. The bill would lift all restrictions on late-term abortions, allow non-physicians to perform abortions, and could compel all medical facilities, including Catholic hospitals, to allow abortions.

 

You can send a message to your lawmakers opposing the RHA at the NYS Catholic Conference Action Center here.

 
project rachel
               ministry
    Project Rachel is the official outreach of the Catholic Church to those who are suffering abortion loss.

We have a network of compassionate counselors and clergy who are specially trained in this ministry throughout our Diocese. With your help we can spread this information. The Respect Life office has pamphlets and videos that are available for use in your parish. Please call the confidential private line where you or someone you know can begin hope and healing after abortion.

 1(888) 456-HOPE (4673) hopeafterabortion.com

VIDEO and BOOK
Recommendations
In the Spotlight  The Respect Life Office has a variety of Life Issues DVDs and books to borrow. Please consider them for your parish or school and spread the word on Respect Life Issues  
Please also consider them for your bus Washington. 
WORD OF LIFE - PALABRA DE VIDA  
  
English                       Espaņol   

 

                         

 

Liturgical Prayers for Life  - Including a Prayer for a Mother Before Childbirth  and Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary for an Expectant Mother

"Blessing for a Child in the Womb" to buy (click here) Please include these in your Sunday Bulletin.   

DEUS CARITAS EST .... GOD IS LOVE

 

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! 

 
Allison O'Brien RN, Director

S. Elizabeth A. Geraghty, CSJ Project Rachel Ministry Coordinator

Haylee Greenwood, Respect Life Office Volunteer

Danielle Natorski, Part Time Assistant

Diana Tellis, Ministry/Dept. Assistant