40 Days for Life: Feb 17-March 28

From February 17 through March 28, our community will be uniting with other cities across North America and around the world for a massive coordinated pro-life mobilization -- the 40 Days for Life campaign.  People of faith are praying, that with God's help, this effort will help bring an end to the tragedy of abortion.  40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign that has generated measurable lifesaving results in hundreds of cities where it has been implemented.  Some locations have reported as much as a 28% drop in local abortion numbers and hundreds of new people getting involved in local lifesaving ministry efforts.  The 40 Days for Life campaign is made of three key components

• Prayer and Fasting:  fervent prayer and fasting for an end to abortion 
• Peaceful Vigil:  standing up for life through peaceful public witness outside our local abortion facilities
• Community Outreach:  learn how you "speak for those who cannot speak for themselves" at www.40daysforlife.com/cleveland

The foundation of our Catholic Social teachings is the belief in the sanctity of human life and instructs us to put the needs of the poor and vulnerable first. 

REMINDER:  Next weekend, February 20 and 21, will be our monthly Fair Trade sales in the Narthex after all the Masses.