Are You Attending this Year's LIFE CHAIN on Sunday, October 2, 2005?

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2005

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Join the LIFE CHAIN in YOUR community this year!

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  • Stand with thousands of pro-lifers throughout the USA and Canada!
    You’ll be a light in a darkened world as you help put an end to abortion through prayer!
  • Bring your whole family!
  • Water, lawn chairs, umbrellas and strollers are welcome and encouraged!
  • Rain or sh****ine!
  • **Signs proclaim “Abortion Kills Children,” **“Adoption - the Loving Option,” “Jesus Forgives & Heals,” “Lord, Forgive Us and Our Nation,” “Abortion Hurts Women,” “El Aborto Mata Ninos,” “Life - the first Inalienable Right” and "Pray to End Abortion."
  • **Suggested donation $1 per sign. All proceeds after expenses are given **to the area crisis pregnancy centers.
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Yes!! We have been for the past few years and it’s growing larger every year. Thank God. The first year we attended it was just a handful of people, the following year it was up one whole Street, several city blocks, the following year it was up both sides of the Street, people lined up and down holding signs, lots of car’s that go by honk or give us a thumb’s up and some of them pull into the parking lot, grab a sign and join us. It’s usually only one hour so why not join yourself?? Stand up for the preborn, join the Life Chain!! 👍
 
The wife and I will be going.

Sunrise and Greenback in Citrus Heights, Ca
 
YES YES YES!! :yup:

And here’s the real kicker. After the life chain, we will meet at a local parish where we will have vespers and a Eucharistic Procession which will stop in front of the abortion clinic for Benediction!!! This is so incredible, I almost can’t believe it!! I hope there is a good turnout! Then it’s back to the church for a spaghetti dinner sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. I am so excited, I could just burst!! :bounce: Please remember us in your pro-life prayers this Sunday. I will keep you all in mine. :gopray2:
 
Yes, baby and I plan to attend. This will be our first time. Having him has motivated me to get more active in supporting the pro-life movement…talking the talk *and *walking the walk! 🙂
I sure hope it doesn’t rain on our Life Chain!
 
None of us can attend. I (58yo) have chicken-pox and just came out with the spots LOL. My 22 month old granddaughter is not feeling real well and is crankey. Soooooo no church, no Life Chain, no getting near anyone who could be expecting a child. We will be praying for and thinking of all those that can make it.
 
I’m very impressed with my parish priest who is quite elderly and suffers greatly but he comes out each year regardless of the weather. He always gives a sermon and encourages parishioners to come out and make a stand for the defenseless. Most parishes are satisfied to just put a notice in the bulletin or the briefest announcement after Mass but Fr. Yaremas takes the life issues seriously.

I haven’t participated in the Life Chain with the exception of the past few years because I always wondered how much sense it makes to stand on some street corner with a sign while indifferent drivers go whizzing by. However, I realized it’s not my job to question our success. What’s important is to witness; offer it up as a prayer and sacrifice and to remember although the numbers seem ridiculously few there are thousands of witnesses to life across the continent with whom I am standing in solidarity. In the end, God will triumph. All He asked of me today was to borrow my arms to hold up a little sign. It’s so little to ask; how could I refuse?
 
I just got home! It was amazing. Many of the people driving by were not indifferent. I was blown away by how many honked and waved and gave thumbs up. It was hot, hot, hot where we are, so their support was crucial to us.
 
Well I have to tell all of you we had a tremendous turnout here in the western suburbs of Chicago but I have to tell you about our weather today. It was almost like God was giving the Pro-Aborts a sign through todays weather.

For the beginning of today, the weather was one of the best days of the year. It was completely sunny all day and 80 degrees. Our LIFE CHAIN was scheduled from 2:30 - 3:30PM. When the LIFE CHAIN began at 2:30, the sun which was out all day all of the sudden hid in the clouds and the sky turned gray. Within the next 10 minutes the skies were very dark, there was continuous light grumblings of thunder but no lightning in sight.

The light thunderous grumblings continued & it became very dark outside at 3PM. This continued until 3:30 PM when all of the sudden they skies caved in and it started pouring rain as hard as I have ever seen it rain before. The rain was even coming down sideways. I found it very odd how the weather changed abruptly when the LIFE CHAIN began & when the LIFE CHAIN ended the SKIES JUST EMPTIED LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

I think God was trying to tell the passerby’s in Chicago’s Western Suburbs something – don’t you think so??
 
I have to share 2 funny (actually, maybe “odd” and “sad” are better words) anecdotes from our chain. (Maybe I have to call them “funny” to keep from getting depressed about them…)

1–An elderly woman pulled a U-turn just so that she could come back around and say something to those of us on the chain, holding signs that read, “Abortion Kills Children.” She had her windows rolled down and seemed to want to speak directly to me, so I bent my head & looked at her as if to say, “Yes?” She hollered, “The Iraq war kills mothers and fathers, too!” and drove off, pausing further down the chain again.

2–A teen or 20-something guy came out from a business across the 4 lane street from us and stood with a huge homemade sign that read, “I Eat Dead Babies 4 Breakfast.” Interestingly, he held the sign over his face.

Some thoughts: both were good reminders to me to never think we’re “winning” & grow complacent; the elderly woman made me think about how “menu-specific” people’s thinking is…I.e., if you’re standing on the sidewalk with a pro-life sign, why, you must automatically be a right-wing, pro-war, meat-eating kind of person. Just like I assumed from her yelling at us that she is anti-war, pro-choice, left-wing, etc.

I’m glad I participated, even though there were only a handful of folks where we were.
 
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I’m glad I participated, even though there were only a handful of folks where we were.
Your handful of folks could grow into something big! A couple of people from my church were talking about how when the Life Chain started in our area, only 4 people from our church went. This time we got about 35 (pretty good for a church with a lot of elderly folks).
 
Alleluia and Praise God. We had an incredible pro-life day! :bowdown2:

Our Diocese had an outdoor procession yesterday with the Eucharist all the way to the abortion clinic. We stopped for Benediction facing the death mill. I was at the end of the line and so, from my vantage point, I could watch as the Body of our Lord, followed by candles, flags, and hundreds of faithful Catholics poured into the parking lot accross from that evil place. As someone who stands out there at least once and sometimes twice a week with only 3 or 4 others (but sometimes as many as a dozen) I cannot express the sheer joy of that moment. The tears began while I was still a good distance away. When I finally got to the lot myself, and Benediction began, I hit my knees and cried like a baby. I cannot tell you what a wonderful event it was. And we didn’t have ONE SINGLE NEGATIVE INCIDENT throughout the 1.6 mile journey. Many families were out on their porches to watch (mostly minorities, by the way, because of the area we were in). I even saw one man pull his car over and join the procession!! :clapping:

And the weather was beautiful! 80 degrees with a nice little breeze blowing. When you consider that last year on this date, there was snow on the ground, the weather was a small miracle in itself. I cannot remember a more beautiful Eucharistic moment in all my days. It was so emotional. I just know that God is going to bring that abortion mill to a close!! :yup:
 
Guess I shoulda posted it here… but… here’s my experience:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=78314
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Alleluia and Praise God. We had an incredible pro-life day! :bowdown2:

Our Diocese had an outdoor procession yesterday with the Eucharist all the way to the abortion clinic. We stopped for Benediction facing the death mill. I was at the end of the line and so, from my vantage point, I could watch as the Body of our Lord, followed by candles, flags, and hundreds of faithful Catholics poured into the parking lot accross from that evil place. As someone who stands out there at least once and sometimes twice a week with only 3 or 4 others (but sometimes as many as a dozen) I cannot express the sheer joy of that moment. The tears began while I was still a good distance away. When I finally got to the lot myself, and Benediction began, I hit my knees and cried like a baby. I cannot tell you what a wonderful event it was. And we didn’t have ONE SINGLE NEGATIVE INCIDENT throughout the 1.6 mile journey. Many families were out on their porches to watch (mostly minorities, by the way, because of the area we were in). I even saw one man pull his car over and join the procession!! :clapping:

And the weather was beautiful! 80 degrees with a nice little breeze blowing. When you consider that last year on this date, there was snow on the ground, the weather was a small miracle in itself. I cannot remember a more beautiful Eucharistic moment in all my days. It was so emotional. I just know that God is going to bring that abortion mill to a close!! :yup:
 
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