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Please join Linda Thayer as she leads a 3-part pro-life advocacy workshop on January 11, February 8 and March 8, 2025. Linda taught science for thirty-four years in the Boston Public Schools and has done pro-life / pro-family presentations for over 250, 000 teenagers in the greater Boston area. She served as a member of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Board from 2005 to 2018, headed up the MCFL Speakers Bureau, and has served as a consultant for the Archdiocesan Pro-Life Office. Linda was also the featured speaker at the Cape Cod Pro-Life Alliance spring luncheon held at Albertos last May.
There will be a different workshop on each date. You may attend any one or all of the sessions. Each session is designed to stand on its own as well as building upon the previous sessions. The goal of this program is for attendees to become even more confident of their ability to respectfully and effectively engage in pro-life conversations with youth who are just forming their opinions towards life, as well as adults who are either ambivalent towards or in favor of abortion.
Everyone is invited regardless of religious affiliation, all that is required to attend is an open mind. Each session will take place at Corpus Christi Parish Hall in East Sandwich at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road starting at 1 p.m. There is no cost to attend but registration is required to help us plan for light refreshments at the event. Please register here!
If you have any difficulty registering at the link provided, or for more information, please contact Irina Robinson, Family and Respect Life Director for the Diocese of Fall River, at irobinson@dioc-fr.org or 508-669-7966; or Deborah LeDoux, Family and Respect Life Coordinator for the Diocese, at dledoux@dioc-fr.org or 508-658-2956. You can also read more about the event at this link.
On Friday 1/17 there will be a Pro-Life Rosary at St. Francis Xavier Church – Decades will be spoken in Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and English. Printed translations are provided. The rosary begins at 7PM in the church located at 347 South Street in Hyannis.
All are invited to a Novena for Life at Holy Trinity Church on January 16, 17, 20-24 sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.
The Novena will be held following the daily 9am Mass and Rosary in the St. Joseph Chapel of the church at 246 Main Street (Rte 28), West Harwich. The Novena will also be held virtually on January 18 & 19.
Join Boston Pilgrims for the National March for Life Departing on 1/23 at 10pm. Join the Archdiocese of Boston at the March for Life. This trip is for parents with children ages 12-17, adults, or small high school youth groups (ratio of 1 adult to 6 youth, minimum of 2 adults). You will return to Boston immediately following the march at 4pm on 1/24. Limited spaces are available so act soon. Release forms will be forwarded after registration. Total cost is $80/person. Each person 18+ must have a clear CORI as of January 15, 2025. Chaperones must have completed Protecting God’s Children (Virtus) before attending. For more information and registration go to:
https://www.evangelizeboston.com/event/witness-to-life-2025/
If all a person did was read the Cape Cod Times or have knowledge of so-called gag-order bills being proposed by our state legislature, they might think that Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) are a bad idea. But this couldn’t be further from the truth.
A pregnancy resource center (PRC) is a privately funded center to assist pregnant woman. There are over 3,000 such centers in the United States. Services provided by many PRCs include life-affirming counseling by skilled patient advocates, pregnancy tests, and ultrasound imaging performed by certified sonographers and read by licensed physicians. The purpose of everything a PRC does is to empower a pregnant woman with all of the information needed to make an informed decision on her pregnancy.
Unlike Planned Parenthood and other clinics who provide abortions, PRC’s do not dispense chemical abortion pills nor perform surgical abortions. PRCs begin with the assumption that a woman facing an unexpected pregnancy needs love, support, and knowledge to make informed decisions. Should a woman decide to have an abortion after watching a sonogram of their baby and talking through all available avenues of support, it’s her right to do so. PRCs don’t judge. In the words of a mother who visited a Planned Parenthood clinic, the difference is stark. A PRC starts by asking how they can help. When I was pregnant and went to Planned Parenthood, they began by asking me if I wanted an abortion.
A number of our State Senators want to silence PRCs based upon unfounded accusations and outright falsehoods. They want to go even further and make it unlawful for a healthcare professional to refuse to participate in abortion procedures due to religious beliefs. Why are pro-abortion forces so worried that a woman might learn important information about her pregnancy, the support that is available for her and her baby, and the fact that there are healthcare professionals opposed to abortion?
PRCs are a big deal because they play an important role supporting women and their children in a way that pro-abortion organizations do not! For more information on how you can support expanding access to PRCs on Cape Cod please go to https://capecodprolife.org/
From Life Site News:
The Cape Cod Pro-Life Alliance has so far gathered over ’80 members from 14 different churches and Christian organizations’ after just three months.
Pro-lifers in the intensely pro-abortion state of Massachusetts have joined forces to form an alliance dedicated to encouraging and assisting men and women facing unplanned pregnancies to choose life. Read the entire article here.
