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Prayer Prayer Calendar | Pro-Life Prayers Please print these prayers and pray them often. Prayer is the strongest weapon against the evil of abortion. Post them on your refrigerator, distribute to friends, and ask your pastor to pray them at church. Become a prayer warrior for the unborn. They need you!
Dearest Lord, please continue to bless the Texas Community. Please help all those who live here, and throughout the world, to be open to your message of life. Grant us the grace to be willing to sacrifice of ourselves for the good of those who are the most helpless in our world today: the precious unborn. Lord, there are some who recognize the dignity of these little ones in the wombs of their mothers. However, there are many who are willing to end the lives of these tiny boys and girls. Please bless the efforts of Texas Right to Life. Enable the staff, board and many volunteers to spread the message of life to our community, with a spirit of love, peace and joy. Please let all those we meet see Your love reflected in our words and actions. Amen. Prayer of Re-commitment I thank God today for the gift of my life, and for the lives of my brothers and sisters. I know I am responsible for the unborn who cannot speak for themselves. I know that the most serious tragedy of our day is the tragedy of 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 to never stop defending life until all my brothers and sisters are protected, and our nation once again becomes a nation with liberty and justice. Prayer to the Spirit of Truth Holy Spirit, You are the promised Spirit of Truth, constantly revealing the splendor of truth to Your people, and leading us deeper into the Mysteries of our Faith. Come to us today, and deepen in our minds and hearts the truth about life: its greatness, its dignity, its reflection of the eternal God. Make us appreciate ever more the truth that life is always a good, and that every life is of equal dignity, despite all the different characteristics people have, or the different circumstances under which they come to be. Come, Spirit of Truth. Free all Your people from the falsehoods that lead to the evil of abortion. Free them from the false and harmful ideas which make a god out of their own choices, or which fail to recognize the right to life of children in the womb. Come, O Holy Spirit, and as You immerse us in Your truth, so make us effective witnesses of that truth within our families, among our friends, and to all the world. Amen. Prayer to the Holy Spirit, the Advocate O Holy Spirit of God, You were promised to us by the Lord Jesus as an Advocate, as one who pleads our cause and speaks up for us in the heights of heaven. "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever..."(Jn.14:15). The apostle Paul has taught us that You intercede for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in speech (Rom. 8:26 ). We praise You today for the gift of salvation, for we are deeply aware that we cannot save ourselves. We have sinned, and we cannot win forgiveness on our own. We need an Advocate. We ask You, O Holy Spirit, to make us ever more aware of those who need us as advocates. Grant that we may hear the cries of our youngest, smallest brothers and sisters, those still in the womb, who cannot speak or defend themselves, and who cannot even pray. Holy Spirit, as You are the Advocate, so make us advocates. As You hear our cries for mercy, so let us hear the cries of others for mercy. Save us from the misfortune of seeking mercy only for ourselves, while being deaf to others. As you loosened the tongues of the apostles at Pentecost, so grant us today a Pentecost for the unborn, that we may speak for them before the great and the small, before governments and institutions, and before all Your people. Amen. Prayer for Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade This is the anniversary of legalized killing in America . Let us pray: Lord, have mercy! We ask You God, to hold these little ones in your arms. Bless and protect them, and may they know love and contentment in Your presence. Bless the mothers who are with child; may they never resort to abortion. Forgive those who have had, performed or encouraged abortions. All this we ask in Your name. Amen. Prayer of re-commitment I thank God today for the gift of my life, and for the lives of my brothers and sisters. I know I am responsible for the unborn who cannot speak for themselves. I know that the most serious tragedy of our day is the tragedy of 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. Amen! Prayer: My Precious Child Everything in your life can work together for good and be used as part of My plan for you. Yes, even the bad things – even the very situation you think is intolerable or hopeless or unredeemable. This, too, will work together for your good and My glory. How is this possible? Because you love Me because you have been called to walk in My ways because you have answered "yes" to that call. Even now, I am drawing good from the bad. I am committed to taking whatever troubles come into your life even your failures and your sins and bringing good out of them. Trust Me in this. I love you! Prayer to End Abortion Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life, I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion, I am ready to do my part in ending abortion. I commit myself to be active in the Pro-Life movement, Through Christ our Lord. Amen! Redeemer in the Womb Lord Jesus Christ, You took our human nature upon Yourself. You shared our life and death, our childhood and adulthood. You also shared our time in the womb. While still God, while worshiped and adored by the angels, while Almighty and filling every part of the universe, You dwelt for nine months in the womb of Mary. You were our Redeemer in the womb, our God who was a preborn child. Lord Jesus, we ask You to bless and protect the children who today are in their mothers' womb. Save them from the danger of abortion. Give their mothers the grace to sacrifice themselves, in body and soul, for their children. Help all people to recognize in the preborn child a brother, a sister, saved by You, our Redeemer in the womb. Prayer to the Virgin Mary O Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of us all, we turn to you today as the one who said "Yes" to Life. "You will conceive and bear a Son," the angel told you. Despite the surprise and the uncertainty about how this could be, you said yes. "Be it done unto me according to your word." Mary, we pray today for all mothers who are afraid to be mothers. We pray for those who feel threatened and overwhelmed by their pregnancy. Intercede for them, that God may give them the grace to say yes and the courage to go on. May they have the grace to reject the false solution of abortion. May they say with you, "Be it done unto me according to your word." May they experience the help of Christian people, and know the peace that comes from doing God's will. Amen. Prayer for the Helpless Unborn Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect us against the wickedness of the devil, protect those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life. Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood. Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image — as well as theirs — made for eternal life. Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother alone can give. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. Right to Life Prayer In these troubled times when all our -Author Unknown Poem by Mother Teresa Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. -Mother Teresa The Most Important Person... ...on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral — a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body... The angels have not been blessed with such a grace. They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven. Only a human mother can. Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other human creature. God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation... What on God’s earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother. -Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty
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