Please continue to pray for your Spiritual Adoption baby:

Heavenly Father, we love you very much. We beg you to spare the life of the preborn child that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion.

Spiritual Adoption Program

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Saint Anne Parishioners are called to Organize a “Life Ministries Committee”

In the Catholic Tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation. This obligation is rooted in our baptismal commitment to follow Jesus Christ and to bear Christian witness in all we do. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us, “it is necessary that all participate, each according to his position and role, in promoting the common good. This obligation is inherent in the dignity of the human person.... As far as possible, citizens should take an active part in public life. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Forming Conscience for Faithful Citizenship, No. 13 ” (nos. 1913-1915)

Discern Your Participation in Saint Anne Life Ministries

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI tells us that, “The direct duty to work for a just ordering of society is proper to the lay faithful. As citizens of the State, they are called to take part in public life in a personal capacity. So they cannot relinquish their participation “in the many different economic, social, legislative, administrative and cultural areas, which are intended to promote organically and institutionally the common good.” The mission of the lay faithful is therefore to configure social life correctly, respecting its legitimate autonomy and cooperating with other citizens according to their respective competences and fulfilling their own responsibility. Even if the specific expressions of ecclesial charity can never be confused with the activity of the State, it still remains true that charity must animate the entire lives of the lay faithful and therefore also their political activity, lived as “social charity”. Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, No. 29

Prayer as I Discern:

Gracious and loving God, let your Spirit be with me today. Hear my prayers, and increase in me the will to follow your Son Jesus. Help me to draw on the resources of my faith as I use the opportunities of our democracy to shape a society more respectful of the life, dignity, and rights of the human person, especially the poor and vulnerable. I ask this through Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.

A Place for All in Saint Anne Life Ministries Committee…

For the Christian people of America conversion to the Gospel means to revise "all the different areas and aspects of life, especially those related to the social order and the pursuit of the common good." It will be especially necessary "to nurture the growing awareness in society of the dignity of every person and, therefore, to promote in the community a sense of the duty to participate in political life in harmony with the Gospel." Pope John Paul II, The Church in America (Ecclesia in America), No. 27

For everyone has a calling to address social concerns, “it is necessary that all participate, each according to his position and role, in promoting the common good. How will your answer?

We need you! The faithful, the leaders, the students, the catechists, the organizers, the prayerful, the researches, the writers, the artistic, the professionals, the regular folks, the old, the young, our religious, our priest, the parents, the singles, the married, those with free time, and those who are busy. Ministry leaders please join us. “Consider how your work touches the very core of Social Concerns within our Parish Life. Let us work together in His Truth, always promoting the dignity of every life and the fullness of our Catholic faith.”

Promoting Life, the Foundation of Life Ministries

“This is the ultimate meaning of the Cross: not to seek life for oneself, but to give one's own life. …"I command you this day, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live" (Dt 30: 16). At first sight we may not like this, but it is the way: the option for life and the option for God are identical. The Lord says so in St John's Gospel: "This is eternal life, that they know you" (Jn 17: 3). “Human life is a relationship. It is only in a relationship, and not closed in on ourselves, that we can have life. And the fundamental relationship is the relationship with the Creator, or else other relations are fragile. Hence, it is essential to choose God. A world empty of God, a world that has forgotten God, loses life and relapses into a culture of death. Choosing life, taking the option for life, therefore, means first and foremost choosing the option of a relationship with God.” – Pope Benedict XVI, March 2006.

A Consistent Ethic of Life

"A wide spectrum of issues touches on the protection of human life and the promotion of human dignity. As Pope John Paul II has reminded us: "Where life is involved, the service of charity must be profoundly consistent. It cannot tolerate bias and discrimination, for human life is sacred and inviolable at every stage and in every situation; it is an indivisible good" (The Gospel of Life, no. 87). "Among important issues involving the dignity of human life with which the Church is concerned, abortion necessarily plays a central role. Abortion, the direct killing of an innocent human being, is always gravely immoral (The Gospel of Life, no. 57); its victims are the most vulnerable and defenseless members of the human family. It is imperative that those who are called to serve the least among us give urgent attention and priority to this issue of justice” (2001: US Bishops’ Pastoral Plan for Pro-life Activities: A Campaign in Support of Life).