Thank you, Lord, for your Resurrection. Thank you for your Cross. Thank you for becoming a baby, so vulnerable, so small, so humble. You relied on your Mom and Dad to carry you, instruct you, love you, guide you. Please, guide our feet, our voices, our words, our minds, our hearts and souls as we live out, daily, your call to be fishers of men in the vocation you have called us into. We ask for the grace to live your will. God, please forgive us for the times we have led ourselves and others astray because of our selfishness, our indifference, our lack of understanding, our naivete. How grateful we are, Lord, for your mercy, your constant love, your gentle compassion that always call us to conversion. You know our hearts, Lord. You know our brokeness, and you love us all the more. Thank you. Please guide the feet and protect the hearts of all people gathering on Friday (the 25th of January, and the celebration of St. Paul's Conversion) in Washington, DC for the March for Life. May hearts of stone or coldness be made soft and warm with the love and wisdom of your Holy Spirit. Dear Blessed Mom, please walk among the droves of people Friday, as you did with your dear Son up Calvary. Please comfort those moms and dads, those women and men, those boys and girls struggling with the decisions they made or are tempted to make to take the lives of your dear children by abortion. We ask complete protection on each person so that he or she may live the blueprint you have perfectly created for that life. We love you and we praise you, Lord. Be with us with your mercy. We comfort you and lean on you as you look so graciously with love on us. Thank you for our lives, especially the lives of our parents who gave us life, and for our sweet, sweet children who call us daily to strive for generosity and relinquish our selfishness. We love you, Lord.
Today we are also celebrating our lives by simple things. We made crepes and filled them with sweets: Daddy's homemade strawberry ice cream, walnuts, sprinkles and syrup. WE give God thanks for filling our lives daily with sweets in joys and sufferings.
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life
And for the lifes 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!
- Rev. Frank Pavone
