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Gabriel Project Training

Saturday, September 18, 2010 and

Saturday, September 25, 2010

(Both Days Are Required)

Registration and Continental Breakfast begins at 8:30am

Training Session begins at 9am – 3pm

John Paul II Center, 1300 South Steele Street, Denver

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Cost is $40.00 for both days

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Respect Life Office

Archdiocese of Denver

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Denver Colorado  80210

 

For further information please call Respect Life Office 303/715-3205

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Tell Congress: Remove Abortion Funding & Mandates from Needed Health Care Reform

Congress is debating health care reform legislation on the House and Senate floors. Genuine health care reform should protect the life and dignity of all people from the moment of conception until natural death. The U.S. bishops’ conference has concluded that all committee approved bills are seriously deficient on the issues of abortion and conscience, and do not provide adequate access to health care for immigrants and the poor. The bills will have to change or the bishops have pledged to oppose them.

Our nation is at a crossroads. Policies adopted in health care reform will have an impact for good or ill for years to come. None of the bills retains longstanding current policies against abortion funding or abortion coverage mandates, and none fully protects conscience rights in health care.

As the U.S. bishops’ letter of October 8 states: “No one should be required to pay for or participate in abortion. It is essential that the

legislation clearly apply to this new program longstanding and widely supported federal restrictions on abortion funding and mandates, and protections for rights of conscience. No current bill meets this test…. If acceptable language in these areas cannot be found, we will have to oppose the health care bill vigorously.”

For the full text of this letter and more information on proposed legislation and the bishops’ advocacy for authentic health care reform, visit: www.usccb.org/healthcare. Congressional leaders are attempting to put together final bills for floor consideration. Please contact your Representative and Senators today and urge them to fix these bills with the pro-life amendments noted below. Otherwise much needed health care reform will have to be opposed. Health care reform should be about saving lives, not destroying them.

ACTION: Contact Members through e-mail, phone calls or FAX letters.

To send a pre-written, instant e-mail to Congress go to www.usccb.org/action.

Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at: 202-224-3121, or call your Members’ local offices.

Full contact info can be found on Members’ web sites at www.house.gov & www.senate.gov.

MESSAGE to SENATE:

“During floor debate on the health care reform bill, please support an amendment to incorporate longstanding policies against abortion funding and in favor of conscience rights. If these serious concerns are not addressed, the final bill should be opposed.”

MESSAGE to HOUSE:

“Please support the Stupak Amendment that addresses essential pro-life concerns on abortion funding and conscience rights in the health care reform bill. Help ensure that the Rule for the bill allows a vote on this amendment. If these serious concerns are not addressed, the final bill should be opposed.”

WHEN: Both House and Senate are preparing for floor votes now. Act today! Thank you!
 

Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,

And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters.

I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion,

Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death

by the Resurrection of Your Son.

I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.

Today I commit myself

Never to be silent,

Never to be passive,

Never to be forgetful of the unborn.

I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,

And never to stop defending life

Until all my brothers and sisters are protected,

And our nation once again becomes

A nation with liberty and justice

Not just for some, but for all,

Through Christ our Lord. Amen

 

Pro-Life organizations need your help to stop the killing of babies (fetus is the Latin word for baby).

A secret plan to impose abortion-on-demand on all Americans has been uncovered.

On the plus side, there’s still time to keep it from succeeding ...

... but only if you act now!

 It’s critically important that you click here and follow the instructions!

The secret document I’m talking about is an “Abortion Manifesto” that was submitted to the Obama Transition team.  It’s 55 pages long and lists 54 objectives the abortion industry expects Barack Obama to sign off on during his first 100 days in office ... most of which Obama can do using his executive privileges.

Without question this is a nightmare for the unborn and confirms what Priests for Life warned voters would happen if they allowed pro-abortion lawmakers to gain control of the powers of government.

Unfortunately, just as our message was hitting home and people were heeding our warnings, the economy went into a tailspin.  So instead of voting their pro-life convictions, tens of millions of people panicked and made a grave mistake.  They put economic self-interest above their duty to protect the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life.

The consequence of that terrible decision is the top secret “Abortion Manifesto” document that’s now in the hands of the Obama Transition Team.

I’ve gone through the “Abortion Manifesto” and I can assure you that it is both frightening in its scope and diabolical in its purpose.  

And in light of its far-reaching demands, our job is clear:

We have to sound the alarm throughout the country and rally the people of life to put all their energy and focus into fighting the abortion demon that is about to be unleashed on our nation’s innocent unborn brothers and sisters!

That’s why it’s so important that you click here and rush Priests for Life the largest contribution you can send today!

Your financial help is desperately and urgently needed because we used up all of our funds trying to keep this very thing from happening.  Unfortunately, far too many of those who say they are pro-life chose to vote their pocketbook instead of their conscience.

That’s appalling and speaks volumes about the moral state of our nation ... not to mention just how much work we still have to do if we are to win the fight to end abortion.

Fortunately, you have not put your own financial needs ahead of the needs of the unborn.

And I thank God for that ... and for YOU!  

But now it’s time to arm ourselves, get in the trenches ...

... and fight for the unborn!!!

 Never forget that in fighting for them, you are fighting for all innocent human life.  Each person is made in the image and likeness of God.  Each person is precious in His sight.  Each person is deserving of full protection under the law.  For as our Founding Fathers put it in our Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

To protect that fundamental right to life, the signers of that Declaration pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.  And they did so “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.”

We must do nothing less today!  The unborn need us more than ever.  They need our lives.  They need our fortunes.  And they need us to honor God’s gift of life.

This is especially true in light of the “Abortion Manifesto” which the heralds of the culture of death fully expect to accomplish ... if not in Obama’s first 100 days in office, then most assuredly over the next four years.

If carried out – especially passage of the “Freedom of Choice Act” – it will undo twenty years of pro-life progress and enshrine abortion-on-demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy as a legal right for generations to come.  What’s more, it includes a plan that will export abortion beyond our borders and impose the killing of innocent children on every nation in the world.  

What’s more a powerful coalition of 33 rabid pro-abortion groups have signed on to the “Abortion Manifesto” and will spare no expense to see this diabolical agenda passed.  All the usual suspects are there ...           

                        ... Planned Parenthood
                        ... Catholics for Choice
                        ... NARAL
                        ... the ACLU
                        ... National Abortion Federation
                        ... Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
                        ... and dozens more!

Combined, these groups have literally hundreds of millions of dollars to spend in their fanatical drive to achieve every single one the priorities listed in the Manifesto.

And the current leadership of the “Abortion Congress” will be only too willing to go along.

As will Barack Obama.  After all: 

  • He voted against legislation that would save the lives of innocent babies who were born alive in botched abortions ... not once but THREE TIMES!!!

  • He promised Planned Parenthood that his first action as President would be to sign the “Freedom of Choice Act” – which is on page 15 of the “Abortion Manifesto.”

  • And he is the man Archbishop Charles Chaput calls “the most committed ‘abortion-rights’ presidential candidate of either major party since the Roe v. Wade abortion decision in 1973.”With all that going against them, how will our unborn brothers and sisters survive?  Who will protect them?  Who will give of themselves and stand up to these pro-abortion extremists? 

In asking that I am reminded of the call of Isaiah.  King Uzziah had just died.  The Israelites had become morally and spiritually corrupt.  They had turned to idolatry.  The remnant that were faithful to God began to despair.  They felt alone and overmatched.  It appeared all was lost.  At this dark time, Isaiah went up to the temple to pray.  While there he had a vision of the Lord of Hosts Who, knowing the plight of His Chosen People, asked him:

Whom shall I send?  And who will go for us?

 Without hesitation, Isaiah replied:  

Here am I.  Send me!

Well, our situation here in the United States in 2009 is not all that different from Israel’s back then.  A great many of our fellow Americans now worship the almighty dollar.  They ignore God and His loving plan of salvation.  Consumed with love of self, they turn a blind eye to the poor and oppressed ... and in particular, the unborn.

And so God is calling out again:

Whom shall I send?  Who will awaken My people?  Who will speak out for My precious unborn children?  Who will go for Me?

Like Isaiah, our answer must be immediate.  Holding nothing back, we must reply:

Here am I, Lord.  Send me!  I will give of myself for the sake of Thy unborn innocents!  I will speak out in their defense!  I will awaken the people!  

That must be your answer today.  I pray that it is.  And when you click here, you’ll show that it is! 

Make no mistake.  God has specially chosen you and Priests for Life to lead this fight.  And thanks to you and loyal pro-life champions like you, Priests for Life is able to reach literally tens of millions of people and give them direct actions to take in the coming battle.  We will do so using ... 

  • The internet ... both our own website (www.priestsforlife.org) and through emails
  • Television ... primarily with our “Gospel of Life” TV show but also through my preaching on Mother Angelica’s EWTN cable network
  • Radio ... through our countless appearances on religious programs as well as talk shows that are broadcast on both Catholic and Protestant stations
  • Newspapers and magazines ... special columns, guest editorials, letters to the editor
  • Conferences ... where we meet face-to-face with pro-life leaders and activists
  • Parish visits ... which allow us to energize both priests and laity

 No other pro-life organization has as expansive an outreach as does Priests for Life.

But the cost to sustain this effort is massive.  It runs into the millions of dollars.  Literally.

And with the economy limping along as it is, well, it’s going to take tremendous sacrifice on the part of all of us to sustain Priests for Life’s effort to defeat the “Abortion Manifesto” and restore the dignity and worth of every human person. 

So I beg you to click here and give of yourself so that working together we can protect and defend the lives of God’s innocent unborn.

Without Priests for Life’s uncompromising leadership, I fear for their lives.  I truly do.

So please be generous.  Allow us to be the voice of the unborn.  Help us rally the people of life to rise up and oppose the “Abortion Manifesto” and all its empty promises.  With Isaiah let us say:

Here am I, Lord.  Send me!

Thank you for your critically needed help today – both your prayers and your financial contribution.  And know that in appreciation for the sacrifices you continue to make on behalf of our unborn brothers and sisters, all of us here at Priests for Life pray for you and your needs.  God bless.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

 

Fr. Frank Pavone

National Director, Priests for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries

PS One specific project your gift will help Priests for Life carry out is our assistance to the bishops as

they urge the Catholic laity to make their voices heard in opposition to the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).  As I told you, Priests for Life has the unique ability to reach out to people of all religious denominations and get them to join in this critically important battle.  Without question FOCA is the key component of the “Abortion Manifesto.”  If nothing else, we must win this battle.  And with your help today, we will!  So once again, please click here and follow the instructions! 

NOTE: If you prefer to send a check, please make it out to Priests for Life and send it to us at PO Box 141172, Staten Island, NY 10314.  If you have any questions, call us toll-free at 888-735-3448.

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