Right To Life

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Following 11:30 am Mass at the Memorial to the Unborn - We invite all parishioners to join us in praying this special Rosary for the intentions of those affected by abortion.

Rachel Rosary


Prayer Vigil for Life - January 28-29

Catholics across the country are encouraged to observe a nationwide prayer vigil from Thursday, January 28 to Friday, January 29, 2021, marking the 48th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions legalizing abortion through nine months of pregnancy. The vigil will begin at 8:00 PM (ET) on Thursday, January 28 from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. with a rosary, followed by Mass. The live television broadcasts on January 28 from 8:00-11:00 PM (ET) and on January 29 from 8:00-9:00 AM (ET) will be provided by EWTN and will also be available via livestream
on the Basilica’s website. Live-streaming information for the overnight bishop-led holy hours from various dioceses will be provided on the USCCB’s website. https://www.usccb.org/news/2021/dioceses-across-usa-participating-nationwide-prayer-vigil-life-january-28-29

Please contact Cherie Decker at 504-810-2330 or Wayne Trosclair at 504-214-2658 for more information.   

2258   Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end.  God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being.

2271   Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.  This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.  Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.

2323   Because it should be treated as a person from conception, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed like every other human being.

2324   Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder.  It is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator.
2319   Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of the living and Holy God.

All human beings, from their mothers' womb, belong to God who searches them and knows them, who forms them and knits them together with his own hands, who gazes on them when they are tiny shapeless embryos and already sees in them the adults of tomorrow whose days are numbered and whose vocation is even now written in the Book of Life.   John Paul II