Life Programs and Chairmen
40 Days for Life Mark Kiernan, PGK
Adoption as an Option Enrico Siano, DGK
Baby Bottle Boomerang Raymond Wuertz, PGK
Deborah Hospital Support - LINK Andrew Julia, FDD
Diapers for Babies Michael Walter, FDD
Homes for Mothers James Illo, PGK
Intellectual Disabilities Drive- LINK Gary Seals, FDD
March for Life Ronald Prykanowski, FDD
Mass for People with Special Needs - LINK Gary Seals, FDD
Novena for Life - LINK Peter Kueken, FDD
Polar Bear Plunge - LINK John A. Gazis, FDD
Pregnancy Center Support Al Del Tufo,
Roses for Life James Kukura, FDD
Silver Rose - LINK Michael Choma, FDD
Special Olympics - LINK William Zika
Support for Persecuted Christians - LINK Peter Walentowicz, FDD
Ultrasound Initiative Stanley Hubbard
Wings for Life Stephen J. Richardson, FM
“Only with prayer—prayer that storms the heavens for justice and mercy, prayer that cleanses our hearts and souls—will the culture of death that surrounds us today be replaced with a culture of life."
—U.S. Catholic Bishops
Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities
Pro-Life Prayer
Heavenly Father, source of all life, who desires not the death of Your children, but wishes that they may grow into the fulfillment of the personhood that You placed in them from the moment of conception. Shower Your blessings upon the unborn, protect them from all evil and bring them forth into the world to walk in Your ways.
Bestow Your particular love upon those privileged by motherhood that they may be supported at this most special time in their lives. Turn the hearts of the fathers toward You that they too may be filled with abundant grace.
I offer You my special prayer for all Your children, for my life itself, for all the blessings You have bestowed on me, and ask finally to be brought into Your presence when You see fit to end my earthly sojourn. Amen.
“I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him”
(Dt. 30:19-20).
Life Prayer
Lord, we rejoice in Your commands!
You give us the opportunity to freely choose You and serve You!
Your gift of freedom puts our destiny in our own hands.
Lord, to choose life is to choose blessing,
And to choose death is to choose curses.
We have the power to choose either one,
But not the power to change the consequences.
You give us the command
To freely love the children entrusted to our care
And to respect their right to life.
You warn us that to choose abortion
Means to bring devastation not only on them,
But on us.
Your command to choose life
Is a choice of You, Your covenant,
The way of Your commands, Your love, Your peace
And Your gift of salvation and life eternal.
Lord, we choose life today
And we pray that all will do so!
Lord, give us individuals and families who choose life!
Give us a nation that chooses life!
Give us a world that chooses life!
We pray through the One who isv The Way, the Truth and the Life,
The Resurrection and the Life,
The Bread of Life,
The Author of Life and the Conqueror of Death,
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life