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Respect Life Ministry - A Social Action Ministry

Social Action“We proclaim that human life is a precious gift from God; that each person who receives this gift has responsibilities toward God, self and others; and that society, through its laws and social institutions, must protect and nurture human life at every stage of its existence.”
U.S. Catholic Bishops, Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities, November 2001

Our Respect Life Ministry actively promotes the respect for all human life from conception to natural death through prayer, education and action.

Membership

Open to all

Meetings

4th Wednesday of the month from 7:30-8:30PM in the library, preceded by the Rosary in the Chapel at 7pm.

Contact

Mike Leaser, phone: 919-772-3264, or e-mail: StAndrewRL@gmail.com
Jennie Kirschbaum, Parish Council Liason, e-mail: jkirschbaum@saintandrew.org

Opportunities for involvement:

40 Days for Life is a National campaign, held in the spring and the fall, that is community-based and draws attention to the consequences of abortion through three components: prayer and fasting, constant vigil, and community outreach. Bishop Burbidge as well as other local and national leaders endorse this campaign.

The Triangle area Spring 2012 Campaign begins Ash Wednesday February 22 in Chapel Hill. You can help make a life saving impact by joining the local vigil outside of the Planned Parenthood, 1765 Dobbins Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

We will also be joining St. Mary Magdalene and St. Michael on Friday March 16 and Saturday, March 17 to cover the vigil hours from 7am-7pm each day. Contact StAndrewRL@gmail.com for more information or go directly to the Chapel Hill 40 days for life website to sign up on the vigil calendar. We also recommend that you sign up to receive the updates about the National campaign results and daily devotionals from the National website. Click on "Send me updates!" on the upper right hand column of the national webpage.

Bishop Michael Burbidge will join us in prayer on Thursday, February 23, at 8:00 a.m. to help kick off the Chapel Hill 40 Days for Life campaign. We hope that many in the Triangle area will also join us and stand with us in prayer.

Praying at an abortion clinic: We continue to pray across the street from "A Woman's Choice" clinic on Saturday mornings from 8-10 am. Come and join us in prayer on any Saturday for as little as 20 minutes, but we especially encourage the last Saturday of the month. This abortion facility is open 6 days a week and performs many abortions each day.

Run for Life: The Run for Life event was established in 1994 in Raleigh, NC. Runners raise money to help different pro-life organizations. A family fun event, the race starts with a one mile fun run for children of all ages and ends with a 5K run for more serious runners.

St. Andrew Pro-Life Sunday Coffee and Donuts: St. Andrew Pro-Life Sunday Coffee and Donuts usually held the first Sunday of October will be postponed due to construction of the fellowship hall.

Life Chain: We participate in the annual Life Chain event the first weekend in October. Contact: Mary Ann Metcalf, phone: 910-612-3063.

March For Life in Washington, DC: We support and attend the annual pro-life rally and march in Washington, D.C. on January 22nd. Buses from the Raleigh Diocese are chartered. To reserve your bus seat, please contact Bob or Kathy Klein, phone: 919-815-3237 or 919-815-1369.

Raleigh March for life Rally and Breakfast: We promote and attend this yearly event in January in downtown Raleigh.

Mother's Day Flower Sale: Supports local pro life organizations and help to fund the ministry.

Volunteers for the local Crisis Pregnancy Center: Birthchoice offers help and hope to any pregnant woman. Several parishioners volunteer at Birthchoice. Volunteers are needed in a variety of capacities. Training is provided by Birthchoice 781-5423

Gabriel Project: Gabriel project's mission is to help women in crisis pregnancies choose life for their unborn child. Volunteers minister directly to women during and after pregnancy by providing emotional, spiritual, and material support. Contact: Darcy Holley, phone: 919-267-5774

Community Resources for help with pregnancy

Birthchoice: Birthchoice offers help and hope to any pregnant woman. “We believe it is the right of every pregnant woman to give birth and the right of every child to be born.” Not ready to be pregnant? Birthchoice provides confidential services and a 24 hour helpline, 919-781-5433.

Gabriel Project: Gabriel project's mission is to help women in crisis pregnancies choose life for their unborn child.

Community Resource for help with healing from an abortion

Project Rachel: Project Rachel assists women and men who have been wounded by abortion and seek truth and healing. For more information call 919-852-1021, or e-mail projectrachel@nc.rr.com. All contacts are strictly confidential.

Prayer Activities

First Friday Adoration: St.Andrew Chapel
Rosary at 7PM followed by Pro-Life meeting- St. Andrew's on the 4th Wednesday of the month

Scheduled Pro-Life Masses:

  • St. Joseph, Raleigh: Saturdays, 8:00 am
  • Pro-Life Rosary - Our Lady of Lourdes, Raleigh: Tuesday 6:00 pm and Sunday at 8:30am in Adoration Chapel and 11:00 am in the Church.
  • Perpetual Adoration Chapel - Our Lady of Lourdes, Raleigh

Prayer at Abortion Facilities:

  • A Woman's Choice, 3305 Drake Circle, Raleigh -Saturdays from 8 am -10 am Contact StAndrewRL@gmail.com if you have any questions
  • Preferred Women's Health Center, 1604 Jones Franklin Rd., Raleigh (Contact Saints Cyril & Methodius Byzantine Catholic Church if you would like to join them as they pray at this clinic, e-mail: sscyrilmethodius@gmail.com)
  • Planned Parenthood, 1765 Dobbins Dr., Chapel Hill

A Pro-Life Prayer

God of all goodness, You have entrusted us with the gift of life. Help us to appreciate that gift from the first moments of conception to the last breaths of old age. Send Your strength to all those who defend the unborn, the weak, and the dying against attempts to cut short their lives. May Your Holy Spirit touch the hearts of those who are tempted to choose the way of death rather than life. Grant that Your people may always be a sign of love in the world. Amen.