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THANK YOU for being a part of 40 DFL/Worcester’s Fall 2021 campaign! We started off this campaign with the great news of the birth of a baby girl who was saved during our Spring 2021 campaign; we’ve been following up with mom and baby, and they are doing well.We know of one young woman who changed her mind and decided not to have an abortion while we were praying outside PP a few weeks ago. We are also hopeful that there’s an employee who may be thinking of leaving. Remember, that’s just what we happen to know of. If you read the stories on DAY 36: https://www.40daysforlife.
com/en/day-36-came-back-to- say-thank-you you’ll be reminded that our prayers have effects we may not see right away. We appreciate all of you ...who covered a weekly vigil shiftwho put in over 20 hours at vigilwho came to our vigil for the first timewho volunteered to fill holes in the schedulewho covered the first or last time slot of the daywho stopped by Pleasant Street to pray while out doing an errandwho are homebound and supported this campaign with your prayerswho brought a friend or family member to join the vigil for the first timewho stayed late when the person taking the next shift didn’t make it on time
who were willing to do an extra vigil shift so another person wouldn’t be aloneYour prayers, joined with those of hundreds of thousands of others around the world, through the grace of God, brought about the many miracles reported in the national team’s daily emails.BETWEEN CAMPAIGNS: While our campaign is officially over, abortions continue year-round at the Worcester PP—about 40 per week. The latest statistics show that 2086 babies were killed at PP in Worcester in 2020. For anyone who’d like to continue praying between campaigns and would like company, you can usually find others praying on Thursday and Friday mornings between 7-9am and on Saturdays between 9-11am. Also consider joining up with a friend to pray once a week or once a month at a time that works for you.Now is a good time to talk with your pastor (or associate pastor or deacon) about 40 DFL and see if he would be willing to lead an hour of prayer on the sidewalk during the Spring 2022 campaign. Pastors’ calendars fill up quickly, so it’s worth putting in the request now.Consider having a showing of Unplanned at your church or school to recruit new participants for the Spring campaign. We have the DVD available to borrow.If you belong to a prayer group, please continue to pray for the closing of the Worcester PP, for an end to abortion in Worcester, and for all of the pregnancy centers in our area.If you know anyone in need of post-abortion healing, please let them know that free help is available by contacting Kathy at Silent No More/Surrendering the Secret (508-397-7280).Julie will once again be organizing Empty Manger Caroling (prayer and song) outside PP during the month of December. We’ll notify you of the details via email.TELE”HEALTH” ABORTIONS NOW IN MA: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned- parenthood-massachusetts/ campaigns/telemedicine- abortion Add this to your prayer list! KEEP THE FAITH. TRUTH WINS: People can change their minds when they have full information. See Live Action’s new video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8eRdFznFlc (note: the second half of the video shows an illustration of how a 2nd trimester abortion is performed; in MA there were 1439 2nd trimester abortions in 2020) The next campaign starts on Wednesday, March 2nd and runs through Sunday, April 10th (Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday).Hope to see you on the sidewalks!Your 40 DFL/Worcester Leadership Team(Pauline, Julie, Gina, Sandra, and Lee)
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Stop the Hyde Amendment!
Your voice could help save millions of lives. The Hyde Amendment has protected Americans from funding abortion for 45 Years. It is credited with saving the lives of over 2.4 million children to date. Now, powerful members of Congress want to take away this law that both Democrats and Republicans have supported for nearly half a century. Without it, billions of taxpayer dollars could go to abortion. That means abortions would be cheaper, easier, and funded with our taxpayer dollars!As Pope Francis has said, “The future of humanity … is fundamentally in the hands of people and in their ability to organize.” It is critically important for Catholics to send a strong message before Congress moves forward to impose taxpayer-funded abortion. Because of the incredibly high stakes Congress needs to hear from a massive number of people. To that end, I invite the people of your parish to join our diocesan response to this nationwide effort by the USCCB, set for the first week of June. The primary goal is for millions of Catholics to sign the petition on NoTaxpayerAbortion.com .The USCCB has created easy, ready-to-use tools that can be found at respectlife.org/no-taxpayer-abortion. These include a sample announcement, graphics, flyer, and infographic. More tools continue to be added as they become available, so be sure to check back. Additionally, the USCB is hosting a webinar Wednesday, May 12 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT) that will give more information on the push for tax dollars to pay for abortion and what Catholics can do to stop it. Anyone interested can register at respectlife.org/no-taxpayer-abortion.
Stop your tax dollars from going to abortion. NoTaxpayerAbortion.com.With every prayerful best wish, I remainSincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Robert J. McManusBishop of Worcester
