40 Days for Life

[utah_rose]

40 Days for Life begins on Ash Wednesday, March 9th. I think it is a good way to celebrate Lent. It requires prayer, fasting, and attendance at times where they perform abortions, only this organization suggests prayer at these sites rather then demonstrations. I’m not very good at fasting, but hope that Jesus and Mary will help me with that. I just want my voice heard, for doing nothing will not accomplish much.

I got fired up for this organization since I read “Unplanned” by Abby Johnson. These prayers won her over after working 8 years at Planned Parenthood. And presently she is a consultant with this organization, so I think she’d know the importance of this organization.

She also appeared on “The World Over” on EWTN, and for those who haven’t watched it it will be repeated during the week.

At the eve of the Senate hearings, we don’t know yet if they will “defund” Planned Parenthood. However, especially if they do I for one will be out there, and I will consider this my Lenten penance.

I urge anyone who is interested in this to go online, where you can sign up for this.

 

[crystal_waters]

40 Days for Life begins on Ash Wednesday, March 9th. I think it is a good way to celebrate Lent. It requires prayer, fasting, and attendance at times where they perform abortions, only this organization suggests prayer at these sites rather then demonstrations. I’m not very good at fasting, but hope that Jesus and Mary will help me with that. I just want my voice heard, for doing nothing will not accomplish much.

I got fired up for this organization since I read “Unplanned” by Abby Johnson. These prayers won her over after working 8 years at Planned Parenthood. And presently she is a consultant with this organization, so I think she’d know the importance of this organization.

She also appeared on “The World Over” on EWTN, and for those who haven’t watched it it will be repeated during the week.

At the eve of the Senate hearings, we don’t know yet if they will “defund” Planned Parenthood. However, especially if they do I for one will be out there, and I will consider this my Lenten penance.

I urge anyone who is interested in this to go online, where you can sign up for this.

is there a link we can go to for more info?

 

[fencetennis]

40daysforlife.com/

A truly wonderful prayer vigil…40 Days for Life does the Lord’s work!

 

[mguthrie]

I also believe that this will be a great way to get your Lent started…I for one have signed up to to pray at abortion clinics in Austin, Texas…I am sure that this experience will be a great one.

God Bless

 

[TheRealJuliane]

40 Days for Life begins on Ash Wednesday, March 9th. I think it is a good way to celebrate Lent. It requires prayer, fasting, and attendance at times where they perform abortions, only this organization suggests prayer at these sites rather then demonstrations. I’m not very good at fasting, but hope that Jesus and Mary will help me with that. I just want my voice heard, for doing nothing will not accomplish much.

I got fired up for this organization since I read “Unplanned” by Abby Johnson. These prayers won her over after working 8 years at Planned Parenthood. And presently she is a consultant with this organization, so I think she’d know the importance of this organization.

She also appeared on “The World Over” on EWTN, and for those who haven’t watched it it will be repeated during the week.

At the eve of the Senate hearings, we don’t know yet if they will “defund” Planned Parenthood. However, especially if they do I for one will be out there, and I will consider this my Lenten penance.

I urge anyone who is interested in this to go online, where you can sign up for this.

This will be my 4th 40 Days, I believe. I’ve kind of lost track, there are 2 campaigns every year now, in spring coinciding with Lent, and in the fall.

You are correct that the 40 Days campaign is one of peaceful prayer ONLY. Anything other than that, and the effectiveness is lessened. If the clients and escorts (not every abortion clinic has them, but PP sure does!) see us praying for them, then it’s hard for the organization to tell lies about us and call us “protesters.”

Some people are unable to actually stand or kneel and pray at a clinic and those participants are welcomed to pray and fast at home. Prayer reaches God no matter where it is done, but of course having a large presence at the clinics is a powerful witness to the horror of abortion.

I wish more priests and nuns would join us at the clinics. Of course we also need more black Americans to wake up and recognize that they are being targeted by abortion at a much higher rate, and that this is no coincidence.

You will not enjoy your Lenten sacrifice, I will tell you that up front. It’s one of the most difficult things I have ever done, to stand in front of that evil, evil place and pray…and know that as I pray, babies are being killed and there is literally nothing I can do to save them. I cry quite frequently as I pray. But as my friend and the head of our local Coalition for Life reminds me, “You will be the last person on earth to say a prayer for that baby.”

May God bless each and every one of you who joins your local 40 Days for Life campaign!

p.s. Lila Rose’s organization, LiveAction Films, just hired Abby Johnson, but I’m sure Abby is still helping 40 Days, too.

 

[TheRealJuliane]

I also believe that this will be a great way to get your Lent started…I for one have signed up to to pray at abortion clinics in Austin, Texas…I am sure that this experience will be a great one.

God Bless

I don’t mean to be the skunk at the picnic, but be prepared for your heart to be ripped completely apart as you pray in front of an abortion clinic…and if it’s Planned Parenthood, the “death-scorts” are not going to be nice to you and might be actively rude. Being a “nice” person myself, not harming anyone, and not wanting to be cruel to anyone, I was shocked at how nasty the PP volunteers and staff were toward us. But then I realized that we are interfering with their bottom line, so why WOULD they be nice to us in any way?? It’s hard to maintain my charity toward them sometimes. I have to pray intensely before I attempt to sidewalk counsel, or I might get snippy with them. I try mostly to ignore them and only address myself to the clients. But now that we are completely shut off from the clients once they enter the PP driveway, all I can really do is pray.

Going to the actual location of abortions makes it real like nothing else. It’s painful for most people, but it makes you more committed to ending abortion. I think it will be a wonderful and powerful Lenten sacrifice.