August 6 Day of Witness - Prayer Warriors needed!
Day of Witness
On Friday, August 6 St. Gabriel Pro-Life-Ministry will join friends from other churches for a peaceful day of witness outside the new abortion clinic in McKinney. We need your help to pray for an end to this evil in our community and support the sidewalk counselors offering compassion and hope to abortion-minded women. Please come out and join us!
What: Day of Witness -Peaceful Prayer Vigil.
If you want to sign up to pray
Go to: http://stgabriel.org/pro-life-ministry
Scroll down to “PRAY TO END ABORTION IN MCKINNEY”
If you want to sign up, scroll down & click on
“SIGN UP HERE” and you will be transferred to the 40daysforlife site.
To sign up for hours in August, first click on ”VIEW 365 DAY CALENDAR”
Review and sign the 40 Days for Life Statement of Peace found here: https://www.prolifedallas.org/StatementofPeace
GO TO: http://stgabriel.org/pro-life-ministry
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!
Go to: http://stgabriel.org/pro-life-ministry
Scroll down to “PRAY TO END ABORTION IN MCKINNEY”
If you want to sign up, scroll down & click on
“SIGN UP HERE” and you will be transferred to the 40daysforlife site.
To sign up for hours in August, first click on ”VIEW 365 DAY CALENDAR”
Review and sign the 40 Days for Life Statement of Peace found here: https://www.prolifedallas.org/StatementofPeace
GO TO: http://stgabriel.org/pro-life-ministry
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!
Have questions?
Contact Paul Borchard, director McKinney 40 Days for Life - 365 program
paul@prolifemckinney.org 214-531-7285
or
Mary Reddan mary.o.reddan@gmail.com
What to take with you:
- a peaceful, prayerful, loving heart
- prayer aids: Rosary, Bible, etc.
- comfortable walking shoes
- an umbrella, sun hat and water for the heat
- a friend or two
- Print a few Choose Life tri-fold to take with you. (see below and print at home)
Don’t have an hour to spare? Stop by with family or friends for a decade of the Rosary or a quick prayer and know the power of our God!
Please take a photo or two if possible or write a note for our next Flocknote of your experience praying at the site so others can understand the power of the peaceful prayer.
The Trifold pamphlet shown below provides information for pregnant women looking into options. It highlights 3 pregnancy centers in the immediate area and the very critical information for contacting a doctor about a Reversal Procedure. You may want to pass it along electronically or print additional pamphlets to pass along to others.
Mark your calendars:
ST Gabriel Pro-Life Meeting Sunday Aug 15
Annunciation Room (Main Sanctuary building) 12:15 (following 11am Mass)
“Come And See How To Save a Life!”
2 hour course
Saturday, August 21, 2021
10:00 am to Noon
St Gabriel Church, Parish Center
Bring your family and friends
by Joanne Underwood, CPLC, Director of
Sidewalk Counselors for over 20 years.
RSVP: Mary Reddan mary.o.reddan@gmail.com
Story from the vigil:
Talking with my children
about abortion
Abortion is a challenging topic to discuss with my four young children, ages 12 and under. When the abortion clinic opened in McKinney in July, however, the conversations began. We have peacefully prayed outside of the clinic (next to the main road) several times now. We have knelt down and prayed a heart prayer and a decade of the rosary together, for the women, their families, the clinic workers, and the babies. We have made homemade signs which say, “We love you both” and “Keep your baby” and “Give moms a chance to love their babies.” We have talked about the overwhelming fear that women may feel when pregnant, amidst an array of unexpected circumstances, and the expectation from others that abortion is their ‘way out.’
Then we have talked about the women and men that I have spoken with and cried with, who have been impacted by abortion, and the life-changing regret and guilt they have experienced at the loss of their babies. One woman emphatically said, “I would never, never, never do it again.” We also talk about God, whose mercy is endless and whose treasury of compassion is inexhaustible, who runs to meet us when we just turn back to Him.
My kids ask questions like what difference it makes to pray outside of an abortion clinic. I tell them it matters. I tell them about post-abortive women I have met who said if there had been just one person praying outside the clinic that day or if just one person had told them not to do it, they would have had the courage to not have an abortion. I tell them, as I have been told, that nothing offered to God is ever wasted. He multiplies our efforts, and He alone changes hearts. So, we continue to kneel and pray outside the abortion clinic, for a few minutes at a time, for a change of heart for all involved.
Watch this 9 minute video talking about the effect of Chemical Abortion Pill on women.
Please continue to pray for Kay and Alan Leonard.
Please remember them in your prayers. They are both active members of our St Gabriel Pro-Life ministry. Kay is now home. Alan continues to be on a ventilator in very serious condition with Covid.
Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.