Saint Rita Parish Respect Life Group

Our mission is to make the respect life message live in the hearts and actions of all Saint Rita parishioners. Restoring respect for human life at all stages from initial conception to natural death is our goal. Our program embraces the four foundational aspects of this task as articulated by our Bishop Paul S. Loverde, namely: prayer, education, action, and sacrifice.

WE ARE A PEOPLE OF LIFE

The St. Rita Parish Respect Life Group sponsors a variety of parish-wide activities designed to help restore respect for all human life—from the moment of conception until the natural end. Daily, we face threats to life—from abortion and contraception and cloning, to euthanasia and assisted suicide, sex trafficking and infertility, caring for each other and all our loved ones even unto death, to terrorism and war and murder.

The Second Look Project has prepared an informative full-color chart detailing the growth in the womb of a new baby. Click here to view the chart. For more information go to www.secondlookproject.org.

Monthly Respect Life Mass, 8 a.m.

Pray the Holy Rosary following Mass at the Duke Street abortion facility. For directions to the abortion facility, click here. (Google maps is free.)

Check out our current Calendar of Activities.

Special Events—PLEASE JOIN US

Mother’s Day Baby Shower—May 13, 2012

We’ll be collecting money and baby items to help support two local crisis pregnancy centers. Both centers need diapers, wipes, formula (Similac only), infant clothes, receiving blankets, and other miscellaneous baby items (no powder).

17^th Annual LIFE CHAIN Rosary October 7, 2012

Sunday, October 7, 2012, 2:00–3:00 p.m., St. Lawrence Church

6222 Franconia Road, Springfield, Virginia

Gather to respectfully and peacefully pray for God’s precious little ones.

40^th Annual March For Life January 25, 2013

Friday, January 25, 2012. On the Mall. Details to come.

Learn more about Respect Life, check out these web sites:

Please consider adding A Prayer For Life to your daily devotions.

WE ARE A PEOPLE OF LIFE, AND A PEOPLE FOR LIFE.

One major focus is our monthly Respect Life Mass celebrated on the fourth Saturday of each month followed by Holy Rosary prayer at the Duke Street Alexandria abortion facility where we pray in order to (1) ask for Divine assistance in the struggle to establish appropriate respect for life and to eliminate abuses against human life and; (2) to be a public example to our neighbors, abortion clients, abortionists, and abortion facility employees that abortion is truly an evil which terminates human lives and needs to be remedied; (3) to offer arriving abortion clients one last opportunity to change their minds; and (4) to make known to abortion clients that both a support ministry and a healing ministry are available for them so that they can have their child.

The Saint Rita Parish Respect Life Group sponsors a variety of parish-wide activities designed to help restore respect for all human life.

For information, contact Imelda Severdia, 703-684-0142, or ibseverdia@comcast.net.