Hello St. Gabriel Respect Life Ministry!
We are wrapping up Respect Life events before our summer break. Our Respect Life Ministry Meet and Greet is May 6/7, and our Spiritual Adoption Baby Shower is May 20/21. Please keep our momentum going and finish strong to pull off both events. We will need all helping hands on deck! Without your support, we couldn’t continue making a difference in the pro-life community.
Don’t miss the following in this newsletter:
- April 29th (Sat) 10:30 a.m. Closing ceremony for Southwestern abortion center. Come remember the many thousands of babies who lost their lives each year at this facility.
- May 6th & 7th (Sat/Sun) Respect Life Meet and Greet; Farewell to Seminarian Allen-Michael. Please sign up to help!
- May 7th (Sun) 12:45 pm Monthly Respect Life Meeting - note time change
- May 20/21 (Sat/Sun) Spiritual Adoption Baby Shower. This concludes our 9 months of prayers for our spiritually adopted babies.
- Scholarships for summer Youth for Life Boot Camp for Middle and High School students.
- Baby Banks have been counted. Thanks for your generous donations (see amount below).
- School Board elections - early voting begins this week.
The Respect Life Ministry deeply appreciates your commitment to our mission and investment of your time volunteering for our projects, which will positively impact countless individuals’ lives.
1. Pray at the
Closing Memorial Prayer Service
former Southwestern abortion center
8616 Greenville Avenue (at Royal) in Dallas
Saturday, April 29, at 10:30 A.M.
While mourning the thousands of babies lost, we will also celebrate lives saved, and praise the Lord for abortion being banned in Texas. Southwestern finally closed in March of 2023.
Optional: Bring flowers in memory of those missing children. Many thousands of babies were aborted each year at this facility. Thanks to our Sidewalk Counselors and Prayer Partners, many Mothers were helped and babies lives saved here too.
Parking is available within the office park, and we will gather in the lot close to the front door.
2.
May 6 & 7 St Gabriel Respect Life Ministry is sponsoring a "Meet and Greet" information fair for our fellow parishioners to meet us and learn about our ministry after all Masses. Concurrently, the Vocation Committee and our ministry are hosting a Farewell event for our Seminarian, Allen-Michael, as he concludes his pastoral year at St Gabriel.
Sign Up Here to Help at our Meet and Greet
We will have food and drink tables, a table for Seminarian Allen-Michael
and the following tables:
- General Information about the St Gabriel Respect Life Ministry
- Prayer
- Healing after abortion
- Texas specific Pro-Life Information
- C-3 Foster/Adopt Information (hosted by C3 Ministry)
- Table for local pregnancy care partners and maternity homes
3.
Respect Life’s monthly meeting
May 7th 12:45pm ( instead of 12:15pm) Please note this on your calendars.
We will finalize our parish spiritual adoption baby shower plans at our May 7th meeting, starting at 12:45. We will also discuss the Pro-Life Boot Camp scholarships for the summer camps for Middle and High School students
- see more about Spiritual Adoption Baby Shower and Youth Pro-Life Boot Camp below.
4.
The Spiritual Adoption Baby Shower will be held after all Masses May 20 & 21 to celebrate our spiritually adopted babies.
St Gabriel's Knights of Columbus supported this event by allowing us to collect baby items in the Narthex from May 10 - May 23 to have even more of a giving impact from St. Gabriel. All donated items will help our community resource organizations in our area (Bella House, Mater Filius, Baby Booties, Hope Women’s Center, Real Options, White Rose, and Birth Choice). The Women’s Club and Columbiettes are collaborating with us on this event to ensure the shower's success with decorations and food for our parish shower.
If you have a big car or a truck, please let us know if you could help to transport all the donated goods to our community resource organizations.
If you participated in our Spiritual Adoption Program last fall, our Pro-Life children spoke on behalf of their Spiritual Adopted Babies before mass. We would like to know if you have a child (2nd - 5th grader) who would like to announce before weekend masses on May 20/21 that our Spiritual Adopted babies were born on Mother’s Day and invite all to our St. Gabriel Baby shower after all masses that day.
5.
Scholarship for the Pro-Life Boot Camp!
High School Boot Camp: July 14-19 at the University of Dallas (overnight)
Middle School Boot Camp: June 12-16 St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church, Plano, TX (Day Camp)
Pro-Life Boot Camp is the first and longest running Catholic Pro-Life camp for teens. We provide a totally immersive experience in the Pro-Life movement, allowing teens to not only learn about pro-life issues, but also get involved right away.
Our goal is to provide total pro-life immersion with a combination of top-notch pro-life speakers, prayer at the abortion centers, volunteer projects, and lots of good fun. Boot Camp aims to train and inspire today’s pro-life leaders, preparing them to live out the pro-life mission for the rest of their lives.
LEARN MORE HERE
SCHOLARSHIP! The St. Gabriel Respect Life committee is offering scholarships to middle and high school students who want to attend!
APPLY HERE
6.
BABY BANKS are In and Counted!
The generous donation of your time, money, or both towards the CPLC Baby Bank fundraiser raised $20,503.54.
50% goes to CPLC (Catholic Pro Life Community) for their work in the Diocese of Dallas, and 50%, $10,251.77, comes back to our St Gabriel Respect Life Ministry to support our life-affirming events.
Words cannot express our gratitude to
Paul Staffan, our Baby Banks coordinator,
and St. Gabriel’s Respect Life Ministry.
Let’s all continue working together towards promoting a culture of life.
7.
Reminder: School Board Elections are taking place now.
Early Voting
April 24 - May 2, 2023
April 24 - May 2, 2023
Election Day
May 6, 2023
May 6, 2023
Bear one another’s burdens and so you will fulfill the law of Christ...Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest, if we do not give up. So then, while we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who belong to the family of the faith.