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HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NOVENA FOR LIFE
For each day,
Reflect on the quote from Pope Francis
Pray a decade of the rosary
Conclude with St. John Paul II’s prayer.
Quotes from Pope FrancisDay 1 - Thursday, Jan 11
“Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God’s creation ….”
Day 2 - Friday, Jan 12
“Human life is sacred and inviolable, and the use of prenatal diagnosis for selective purposes must be strongly discouraged.”
Day 3 - Saturday, Jan 13
“It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother’s womb.”
Day 4 - Sunday, Jan 14
“Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ ….”
Day 5 - Monday, Jan 15
“The Church cannot be expected to change her position on this question. … It is not ‘progressive’ to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.”
Day 6 - Tuesday, Jan 16
“Our defense of the innocent unborn ... needs to be clear, firm and passionate, for at stake is the dignity of a human life ....”
Day 7 - Wednesday, Jan 17
“Equally sacred ... are the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and the underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm and elderly ....”
Day 8 - Thursday, Jan 18
“All too often … people do not accept the ‘Gospel of Life’ but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life ….”
Day 9 - Friday, Jan 19
“Unborn children are always to be welcomed; life is always to be protected and loved, from conception to its natural end.”A decade of the rosary
Pray one Our Father, Ten Hail Marys, One Glory Be, One Fatima Prayer
https://www.kofc.org/en/resources/faith-in-action-programs/faith/rosary-program/4772-guide-to-rosary.pdf
ST JOHN PAUL II PRAYER FOR LIFE
Mary, bright dawn of the new world,
Mother of the living,
to you do we entrust the cause of life:
Look down, O Mother,
upon the vast numbers
of babies not allowed to be born,
of the poor whose lives are made difficult,
of men and women
who are victims of brutal violence,
of the elderly and the sick killed
by indifference or out of misguided mercy.
Grant that all who believe in your Son
may proclaim the Gospel of life
with honesty and love
to the people of our time.
Obtain for them the grace
to accept that Gospel
as a gift ever new,
the joy of celebrating it with gratitude
throughout their lives
and the courage to bear witness to it
resolutely, in order to build,
together with all people of good will,
the civilization of truth and love,
to the praise and glory of God,
the Creator and lover of life. Amen.
St. John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae -
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