“Why are we looking for life on Mars, when we can’t find it in the womb?”
- David Harper
Our high school youth group has spent the month of January learning about the Church’s teachings on life issues. At our Friday night meetings we have hosted several guest speakers whose presentations covered embryonic stem cell research, IVF, and the Freedom of Choice Act. We also had the opportunity to send postcards to our Senators and Representatives expressing our pro-life views and our concerns about the possibility of new pro-abortion legislation in our country. We hosted the USCCB People of Life Display in St. Martin’s Church hall as means of providing information to our parishioners. We also spent a Saturday morning praying the rosary for an end to abortion and the healing of women and men who suffer after having had abortions. We attended the March for Life on January 22nd in Washington, DC. Three of our young people read the Prayers of the Faithful at the respect life Mass that was held at the Verizon Center and one of our teens authored beautiful pro-life rosary meditations that were used there as well. Our teens shared their personal pro-life testimonies and provided music, skits, and leadership at the pro-life concert we held for 400 teens the night before the March for Life. Many of our young people and older parishioners shared in a period of Eucharistic adoration for life. We have spiritually adopted unborn babies who we pray for daily. Finally, our teens encountered the pro-life message in the viewing of the movie Bella, a beautifully pro-child, pro-family experience.
Our high school youth group has spent the month of January learning about the Church’s teachings on life issues. At our Friday night meetings we have hosted several guest speakers whose presentations covered embryonic stem cell research, IVF, and the Freedom of Choice Act. We also had the opportunity to send postcards to our Senators and Representatives expressing our pro-life views and our concerns about the possibility of new pro-abortion legislation in our country. We hosted the USCCB People of Life Display in St. Martin’s Church hall as means of providing information to our parishioners. We also spent a Saturday morning praying the rosary for an end to abortion and the healing of women and men who suffer after having had abortions. We attended the March for Life on January 22nd in Washington, DC. Three of our young people read the Prayers of the Faithful at the respect life Mass that was held at the Verizon Center and one of our teens authored beautiful pro-life rosary meditations that were used there as well. Our teens shared their personal pro-life testimonies and provided music, skits, and leadership at the pro-life concert we held for 400 teens the night before the March for Life. Many of our young people and older parishioners shared in a period of Eucharistic adoration for life. We have spiritually adopted unborn babies who we pray for daily. Finally, our teens encountered the pro-life message in the viewing of the movie Bella, a beautifully pro-child, pro-family experience.
Our teens have been getting busy about being people of life!
On Saturday, January 17
As you know, this year we will have Chris Padgett in concert. You're going to love it! 
