"40 Days for Life" prayer vigil coming 9/24-11/2
Posted by Eric Scheidler on Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Last year on this date, we made our first momentous visit to the Aurora City Council. Over 100 pro-lifers stood up and spoke out against Planned Parenthood, and hundreds more packed the Council Chambers, stairways and courtyard outside City Hall.
It was an amazing day, which led to an investigation into deception by Planned Parenthood, drew major media attention to our fight and switched our entire campaign into high gear—and it was all made possible by prayer.
It all began with prayer
Our campaign began with a simple prayer vigil outside the then-empty building at 3051 E. New York Street.
Prayer has been the foundation of everything we have accomplished over the past year, from the the nationwide attention we brought down on Planned Parenthood's lies and deception to the mothers and babies we've saved from abortion.
And so, as we enter the second year of our spiritual siege of the "Abortion Fortress of Aurora", it is fitting that we turn again to prayer on a biblical scale, by participating in the national 40 Days for Life campaign.
40 Days for Life comes to Aurora
Aurora, Illinois will be one of over 170 cities all across the country where pro-lifers will pray for an end to abortion right there outside the abortion centers, from September 24 through November 2—on the eve of the general election.
We'll kick off our vigil here in Aurora with a Candlelight Vigil starting at 7:00 p.m., September 24 on the sidewalk on Oakhurst behind Planned Parenthood of Aurora (map). Watch here for more information on the Candlelight Vigil as the date draws near.
Then the vigil will continue—day and night, rain or shine—through to a Closing Ceremony the final weekend of the vigil, with several other Special Events along the way.
How can you help the 40 Days vigil?
40 Days for Life is still several weeks away, but you can already begin to take part and help make this vigil a great success:
Devote some time every day to pray for the vigil—that we can cover the hundreds of hours of prayer, that the vigil team can accomplish all their work and that the vigil be a peaceful, powerful witness for life.-
Volunteer to serve as a shift captain. Churches and other groups throughout the Fox Valley are taking responsibility for providing prayer coverage for six-hour vigil shifts, but we still have many shifts open.
You can take on a prayer shift with your church, prayer circle, Knights of Columbus Council, men's or women's group, youth group, friends and family, etc. Check out the Vigil Calendar on the Aurora 40 Days for Life site to see where help is needed, and call Mary Vilim at 630-466-0117 to volunteer.
- Sign up for 40 Days for Life updates for news and inspiration from the national campaign, as well as our local 40 Days vigil.
- Encourage your friends and family to get involved with 40 Days for Life and sign up, too!
Stay tuned for more information on the Aurora 40 Days for Life campaign as we close in on the opening date.
I look forward to seeing you out on the front lines of our spiritual battle to end abortion and restore a Culture of Life in our country.
Yes! Please pray for the stirring of hearts of our country's people. So they may come and be a part of the 40 day prayer vigil. Prayer is so powerful! And we need to pray because Satan has been unchained in this country. He is on the attack and one of the best powerful weapons we have is prayer!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Sacramento, CA has gone through two 40Days for Life vigils and is gearing up for number three this Fall 2008. Kenny McCain has made a DVD for sale in the local Catholic BookStore documenting the experience. It brought us all together. Men, women, priests, pastors, bishop, deacons, families with children, young and old…we all turned out to pray and to fast for the end of abortion.
We did a 24/7 vigil that caused the local Planned Parenthood to erect a fence and hire a security guard. Yet, it was peaceful. It was prayerful. Lives were changed.
Surely this is a movement of God in our time that has served to bind the entire prolife community together and to bring out many more people into the streets to witness to life.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
Correction to my previous post about the Sacramento 40Days for Life. Kenny McCann is the videophotographer who captured our 40Days for Life activity in Sacramento. The DVD is on sale in the Sacramento book store of Easters or directly from Kenny. He has posted a number of videos on YouTube.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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40 Days for Life - an opportunity to serve God by bringing the light and love of Jesus Christ to those people who are lost in darkness and despair. To give them hope - to let them know there are caring people waiting to extend a helping hand - to let them know there is a God who loves them. 40 Days for Life - an opportunity to be the hands and feet of Christ as He travels to seek out His lost children. "For the Son of Man Came to seek and to save the lost" Luke 19:10. Please God, make us better witnesses to your love, that hearts may be converted and that lives may be saved. In the Holy Name of Jesus, Amen!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
FR. JOHN CORAPI ON THE 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9-11
ON THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9-11
Today the world remembers the day of infamy that has
come to be called 911. On September 11, 2001 the unthinkable happened—We were attacked by a hostile force deep within our own country.
We were all shocked, many people were surprised, angry, saddened, or had their faith shaken.
Political correctness and genuine civility restrain
us seven years later from saying much of what many of us think. We must love our country in season and out of season, convenient or inconvenient, whether the rest of the world does or not. That, however, does not mean we can't correct ourselves, better ourselves.
“Know thyself,” the Philosopher says.
Seven years later I admit that I am weary of the
arguments at both extremes. At times the far left seems to truly despise the hand that feeds it. America bashing in some quarters has taken on the respectability of a rite of passage, if not a
religion. You might expect it from some of the western European nations we have repeatedly bailed out of the hell visited on them by the Hitlers, Stalins, and other assorted thugs and mass murderers. It is shocking, however, when immigrants that have gone from relative rags to riches (most of us) hate themselves so venomously (We are the country after all).
On the other hand, there are those on the far right
that seem to have a blind patriotism that discounts the evils this poor nation “under God” has subjugated itself to. We are in an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions, not just because of
dependence on foreign oil, the housing crash, etc., but because of the crass negligence of the leaders we have voted into office—in both parties. Poor and weak leadership is punishment for sin. In an indirect
way, so are all of the other evils that beset creation. An increasing number of countries hate us for various reasons. Terrorism has intruded itself into our daily life. We worry constantly about a host of evils.
Why?
Do you suppose that a nation and the people that
have democratically elected the leaders of that nation can be pleasing to God if they were guilty of the outrageous crime of genocide? If a nation legally and systematically had murdered 48,000,000 unwanted women
over 60 years of age, would that nation be favored, blessed, and protected by God?
Alright, change it to men under 30 years of age. Human
beings are human beings.
We have under the specious pretext of law—the law
of the highest Court in the land—murdered 48,000,000 innocent human beings through abortion in this country since that dark day Satan donned judicial robes and issued his decision in Roe v. Wade. The nation, and most of the world, is “bewitched” into thinking that this is somehow acceptable because a court of morally blind, if not insane, men said so. Hitler said many things, as did Stalin, and every other individual or institution living apart from God and His unalterable law. They are all gone. The immutable will of God and His truth still stand and always will.
As we recall the hell of 911 and pray for the
victims, their families, and the nation in general, remember that God is not a fool, nor is He a disinterested party in the affairs of men.
God knows every human being. He created from all eternity by name. He loves each one as if they were His only child. How shall one nation under God answer God when He calls for an accounting for these beloved
souls? Will we be protected from our enemies, from a never-ending cascade of natural disasters, from financial ruin?
May the Holy Spirit, Lord and Giver of Life,
enlighten our minds and strengthen our wills to love the good and fight evil tirelessly; to defend the most innocent and helpless of our brothers and sisters—the unborn. The hour is late, darkness is falling, a day of reckoning is fast upon us. Now is the time to attack the evils of the day, abortion being the preeminent evil, for if the right to life is undermined, eroded, and ultimately destroyed, no other rights are
relevant or meaningful.
God Bless You,
Father John Corapi
Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration
and continue with Your help,
so that all our prayers and works may begin in You
and by You be happily ended.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
September 15th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
God bless your efforts. My sister-in-law is living a sinful lifestyle - divorced her husband to become a lesbian - and just sent me so much garbage, that I had to see that goodness still exists.
Keep up the great work,
Denise
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 am
"seperate but equal"…..in the interest of being substantially meaningful, should this not be:
"different and equal"?
January 16th, 2009 at 2:25 am
"meaningful" should be "more meaningful"…..sorry.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Moderator please take down the post on Jan 15 8:48pm. Please do not allow this blog to be used by homosexual activists to promote their agenda. We need to keep this PROLIFE blog on topic because the time and energy of FVFAPP does not need to become a forum for going in circles on the topic of homosexuality. As you can see this person is anything but "gay" about his lifestyle please do not allow this forum to be "used" by him. As you can see this blog is being read by many with many different motivations, although that goes with the territory, but allowing others to use this blog for their agenda is something I think would take us too far off topic.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Thank you Moderator for keeping this blog on topic. God bless.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:42 pm