A Pro-Life Prayer for Our President and Public Officials

Lord God, Author of Life and Source of Eternal Life,

move the hearts of all our public officials and especially our President,

to fulfill their responsibilities worthily and well to all those entrusted to their care.

Help them in their special leadership roles,

to extend the mantle of protection to the most vulnerable,

especially the defenseless unborn,

whose lives are threatened with extermination by an indifferent society.

Guide all public officials by your wisdom and grace

to cease supporting any law that fails to protect the fundamental good that is human life itself,
which is a gift from God and parents.

You are the Protector and Defender of the lives of the innocent unborn.

Change the hearts of those who compromise the call to protect and defend life.

Bring our nation to the values that have made us a great nation,

a society that upholds the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all.

Mary, the Mother of the living,

help us to bear witness to the Gospel of Life with our lives and our laws,

through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Imprimatur: January 22, 2009 + Most Reverend Robert J. Baker Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama

March 25: Honoring the Conception of Jesus-- "Day of the Unborn Child"

Celebrate the “Day of the Unborn Child” on the March 25th Feast of the Annunciation

This site was developed to advance the movement toward international recognition of March 25th as the “Day of The Unborn Child,” and equally to promote among Christians the observance of this traditional feast day of the Incarnation honoring Christ’s conception (once celebrated as the old New Year’s Day) which is currently named “The Feast of the Annunciation.” The date was chosen because it falls nine months before the most celebrated birth in Western civilization, known throughout the world as Christmas. Regardless of whether one emphasizes the secular or religious aspects of the March 25th memorial, the symbolic interval of a full-term pregnancy reminds us of the reality and dignity of life from conception.

PRAYER TO CHRIST UNBORN

Dear Lord Jesus in the womb

of Blessed Virgin Mary,

before your birth You filled

the unborn Baptist

with the joy of the Holy Spirit.

Inspire us to see You

in every unborn child.

Grant us the perseverance

to defend vulnerable human life

from abortion, abandonment,

experimentation, and all violations.

Fill us with reverence for the moment

of your Incarnation in Nazareth

when the Word became flesh.

Celebrate the March 25th Feast of the Annunciation

(Festum Incarnationis) as the “Day of the Unborn Child”

Lk 1:15, 30-44; '94 Cat., pass. 717, 486, 495

REDEEMER IN THE WOMB

Lord Jesus Christ, You took our human nature upon Yourself. You shared our life and death, our childhood and adulthood.

You also shared our time in the womb. While still God, while worshiped and adored by the angels, while Almighty and filling every part of the universe, You dwelt for nine months in the womb of Mary. You were our Redeemer in the womb, our God who was a preborn child.

Lord Jesus, we ask You to bless and protect the children who today are in their mothers’ womb. Save them from the danger of abortion. Give their mothers the grace to sacrifice themselves, in body and soul, for their children. Help all people to recognize in the preborn child a brother, a sister, saved by You, our Redeemer in the womb. (Source)

Prayer for Women Considering Abortion

Prayer For Those Who Are Suicidal

A Litany for Life to Good St. Joseph

Good Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us.
Protector of the Mother of God, pray for us.
Faithful spouse, pray for us.
Good worker, pray for us.
Good and gentle man, pray for us.
Man of faith and hope, pray for us.
Man of kindness and charity, pray for us.
Man of love, pray for us.
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, pray for us.
Guardian of the Christ child, pray for us.
Teacher of virtue, pray for us.
Model of patience, pray for us.
Model of kindness, pray for us.
Loving Father, pray for us.
Kind father, pray for us.
Example of holiness, pray for us.
For all unmarried fathers, pray for them.
For all who are afraid, pray for them.
For all tempted to despair, pray for them.
For all tempted by evil, pray for them.
For refugees and orphans, pray for them.
For those condemned to die, pray for them.
For those mortally ill, pray for them.
At the hour of their death, pray for them.
For doctors and nurses, pray for them.
For those who wait for death, pray for them.
For the old and the alone, pray for them.
For truth and justice, pray for them.
For legislators and judges, pray for them.
For our President and Vice-President, pray for them.
For all who work for life, pray for them.

Good Saint Joseph, your faithful love protected and nourished the Mother of God and Jesus Christ, her son. Your fatherly care led to maturity of He through whom all creation began.

Through your intercession, may God guide and protect all human life from conception to natural death, and lead this nation in the ways of truth and of love.
Pray for us, good Saint Joseph, that joined with Christ Jesus, we might give praise to God forever. Amen.

~ Source: USCCB ~

Prayer for the Little Ones Unborn

Our Father, we thank Thee for letting us share Thy gift of life.

We know that all Thy children are precious to Thee.

We pray that Thou may give special protection to little ones not yet born.

Guard them from those who would do them harm.

Permit them to enter the world safely, to live in the light of day.

and to make their way to the place Thou hast prepared for them.

Grant that every mother would welcome her child with love

as Mary welcomed her Divine Son.

We ask this in the name of Jesus, Our Lord. Amen.

Pro-Life Prayers to the Holy Spirit

"The Spirit God has given us is no cowardly spirit."

2 Tim. 1:7

Prayer to the Holy Spirit, Giver of Life

Come Holy Spirit, Creator of all things...You who breathed over the waters at the dawn of creation and brought forth all living beings...You who filled the apostles when the Risen Lord breathed on them on the first Easter night, giving them the power to restore life to those dead in sin...You who, on the last day, will breathe again over all the dead and raise them from the grave--Come! Come and breathe on our world again, immersed as it is in the Culture of Death! Come, O Lord and Giver of Life! Defeat the works of death in our midst, that abortion may no longer stain our land.

We worship You, O Holy Spirit, and we rejoice in You. We know that no matter how strong the forces of death may be, we can still find in You the endless source of life. Renew that life in each of us, and make us worthy apostles of the Culture of Life in our day! Amen.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit, the Advocate

O Holy Spirit of God, You were promised to us by the Lord Jesus as an Advocate, as one who pleads our cause and speaks up for us in the heights of heaven. "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever..."(Jn.14:15).

The apostle Paul has taught us that You intercede for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in speech (Rom. 8:26).

We praise You today for the gift of salvation, for we are deeply aware that we cannot save ourselves. We have sinned, and we cannot win forgiveness on our own. We need an Advocate.
We ask You, O Holy Spirit, to make us ever more aware of those who need us as advocates. Grant that we may hear the cries of our youngest, smallest brothers and sisters, those still in the womb, who cannot speak or defend themselves, and who cannot even pray.

Holy Spirit, as You are the Advocate, so make us advocates. As You hear our cries for mercy, so let us hear the cries of others for mercy. Save us from the misfortune of seeking mercy only for ourselves, while being deaf to others. As you loosened the tongues of the apostles at Pentecost, so grant us today a Pentecost for the unborn, that we may speak for them before the great and the small, before governments and institutions, and before all Your people. Amen.

~ Prayers from Priests for Life ~

USCCB: Litany for Life to Good St. Joseph

Good Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us.
Protector of the Mother of God, pray for us.
Faithful spouse, pray for us.
Good worker, pray for us.
Good and gentle man, pray for us.
Man of faith and hope, pray for us.
Man of kindness and charity, pray for us.
Man of love, prayfor us.
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, pray for us.
Guardian of the Christ child, pray for us.
Teacher of virtue, pray for us.
Model of patience, pray for us.
Model of kindness, pray for us.
Loving Father, pray for us.
Kind father, pray for us.
Example of holiness, pray for us.
For all unmarried fathers, pray for them.
For all who are afraid, pray for them.
For all tempted to despair, pray for them.
For all tempted by evil, pray for them.
For refugees and orphans, pray for them.
For those condemned to die, pray for them.
For those mortally ill, pray for them.
At the hour of their death, pray for them.
For doctors and nurses, pray for them.
For those who wait for death, pray for them.
For the old and the alone, pray for them.
For truth and justice, pray for them.
For legislators and judges, pray for them.
For our President and Vice-President, pray for them.
For all who work for life, pray for them.

Good Saint Joseph,
your faithful love protected and nourished
the Mother of God and Jesus Christ, her son.
Your fatherly care led to maturity
he through whom all creation began.

Through your intercession,
may God guide and protect all human life
from conception to natural death,
and lead this nation
in the ways of truth and of love.

Pray for us, good Saint Joseph,
that joined with Christ Jesus,
we might give praise to God forever. Amen.

~ From the USCCB. ~

Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Blessings of the Past Year

O God, the beginning and the end of all things,

Who art always the same, and Whose years fail not,

we now, at the close of another year,

kneel in adoration before Thee, and offer Thee our deepest thanks

for the fatherly care with which Thou has watched over us during the past,

for the many times Thou hast protected us from evils of soul and body,

and for the numberless blessings, both temporal and spiritual,

which Thou hast showered upon us.

May it please Thee to accept the homage of our grateful hearts which we offer Thee

in union with the infinite thanksgiving of Thy divine Son,our Lord Jesus Christ,

Who with Thee liveth and reigneth forever and ever. Amen.

~ Prayer found here. ~

Prayer to Baby Jesus

HAIL! HOLY BABE

HAIL! Holy Babe of Bethlehem,
All hail to Thee!
Right joyously our hearts exclaim,
O Jesu mi!

My God, what brought Thee from above,
A man to be?
What other than a burning love,
O Jesu mi!

A child to us is born this day,
O happy we!
And ours be now Thy praise to say,
O Jesu mi!

But love with love we must repay,
So tenderly;
With Mary, Joseph, let us pray,
O Jesu mi!

~ From Catholic Tradition ~

The Angelus

THE ANGELUS

The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
And she conceived of the Holy Ghost.
Hail Mary, ...

Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
Be it done unto me according to Thy word.
Hail Mary, ...

And the Word was made Flesh.
And dwelt among us.
Hail Mary, ...

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let Us Pray

Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we to whom the Incarnation of Christ Thy Son was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same Christ Our Lord.
Amen.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's Spiritual Adoption of an Unborn Child Prayer

Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen encouraged this daily prayer to spiritually adopt an unborn child:

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, I love you very much. I beg of you to spare the life of the unborn child I have spiritually adopted, who is in danger of abortion.

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From the Baltimore Archdiocese: What is the Spiritual Adoption Program?

It is very simple. Participants in the Spiritual Adoption Program pledge to pray for nine months for a baby in danger of abortion. While this child will remain unknown to his or her 'spiritual parent', God knows who the child is. Many people have found that naming 'their child' helps to keep them focused on the reality that their prayers are helping to save a particular baby from the harm of abortion. This can be done in a parish or school setting, with age appropriate materials.

The Purpose of the Spiritual Adoption Program is threefold:

1. Encourage prayer for those contemplating abortion, that they will respond to God's grace and welcome their child into life.

2. Educate adults and children about the development of the pre-born child.

3. Provide mothers in need with a 'baby shower' of donated baby gifts, or simply celebrate with a 'birthday party' at the conclusion of the program. In one school a crib was bought with monetary gifts and the students filled a crib with gifts for expectant mothers.

For more Spiritual Adoption Information and Resources click here.

Prayer For Spiritual Supporters Of God's Precious Infants

Eternal Father, Author of All Life, I know that at this very moment a precious pre-born human life in the womb of his mother is in danger of a horrendous death. However, at this moment, I cannot be physically present at the scene to give a witness of your love for this tiny being you knit so wonderfully in his mother's womb. Nonetheless, I wish to present my spiritual self there and, with heartfelt prayers and supplications, to send Heaven-bound all pleas and urgings that your spirit rouse hearts to change and stop the killing of these your precious infants.

Therefore, Lord, although I am unable to be at the scene, I offer as a sacrifice all my labors, thoughts, prayers, inconveniences, sufferings and pains of this day to be united especially with the efforts of those who at this very moment are trying to prevent a precious life from being denied the right to see the light of your day. I offer myself with all the Sacrifices of the Holy Masses, which are ascending right now to your Holy Throne, and with all those who are speaking right now to Jesus in the Eucharist on behalf of the preborn, in the hope that even one precious infant's life might be saved, that one mother might hold her child the day of his birth, that one father might carry his offspring even as your Son Jesus Christ was carried by His earthly father.

Precious infant in the womb, hear my longings and remember that God your Father said that even should a mother forget her infant, He will never forget you.(Isaiah 49:15) I too, united with your Heavenly Father, will not forget you and will unite my prayers and fastings this day with all your Spiritual mothers and fathers who either right now are in your physical presence or who are in their homes, workplaces or wherever duty calls. I join also with the unutterable urgings of the Holy Spirit that labors for your birth.

Remember too, God's precious infant, that even as Rachel mourned her children who were no more (Jeremiah 31:15-17), we mourn and hope that the Mother of All Mothers, Mary our Mother, will turn these tears into a hope that no precious infant of God like yourself will have his life taken this day so violently.

Mary, Mother of God and Mother of us all, protect God's precious infants and intercede for them and for us, Spiritual Supporters, who pray and sacrifice daily for their lives, especially for those who at this very moment are in danger.

Finally, we pray that God forgives those mothers who this very day may make the tragic mistake and end the life within them, but more so God, we pray that this mistake not be made.

I offer these prayers to you my Holy Father, through the merits of your Son Jesus, who with You and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.

Imprimatur:
Most Reverend Thomas V. Daily
Diocese of Brooklyn
February 16, 1991

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Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Gift of Life

THANKSGIVING FOR THE GIFT OF LIFE

Heavenly Father, You are the giver of ALL life.

I thank You, Lord, for the gift of life which You have given me.

Teach me to recognize the sacredness of my life.

Teach me to honor the sacredness of others.

Remove from me the selfishness

that prevents me from experiencing the majesty of each soul.

Help me to recover from the indignities that I have suffered

and which have diminished my self respect.

Restore in me the conscious understanding that

Your Holy Spirit lives in me

and that all my actions and thoughts should reflect

the holiness of Your indwelling Presence.

Sanctify my life, Heavenly Father,

that I might be a blessing to all whom I meet.

Let this world be a brighter place

because You reached out to others through my simple acts of kindness.

Help me to believe in my own goodness that I may resist temptation

and celebrate Your gift of life this day. Amen.

~ Prayer from Prayers of Thanksgiving ~

St. Gerard Majella: Saint for Mothers and Children

Today is the feast day of St. Gerard Majella. He has never been officially proclaimed patron saint of mothers by the Church, but a long history of his powerful intercession for mothers and their children, expectant mothers and their unborn children, and those who hope to be mothers has earned him popular acclaim as patron saint of mothers.

I can personally attest to St. Gerard's helpfulness. I had prayed to be blessed with children to no avail. When someone told me about St. Gerard and I started praying to him, God answered my prayers very quickly. It seems God wants to answer prayers by mothers and for motherhood through St. Gerard.

PRAYER TO ST. GERARD

St. Gerard, you worshiped Jesus as the Lord of Life.

I ask you today to pray for my special intention.

(Mention your intention here.)

Lift up to Jesus

all those who seek to conceive a child,

all those having difficult pregnancies,

all those who have suffered the loss of a child,

and all who lovingly lift up their children to God.

Pray that all of us,

by caring for mothers, fathers, and children born and unborn,

may build a Culture of Life,

in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

(from Priests for Life)

BIOGRAPHY OF ST. GERARD MAJELLA

LEAGUE OF ST. GERARD

THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ST. GERARD

NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. GERARD MAJELLA

40 DAYS FOR LIFE DAY 24: Closed for the day!

David Burke: "We Want to See the World"

"Holy gracious Jesus Christ, we kneel and thank You for our lives,

and pray that every unborn child will see their parents' loving smile.

May every mother realize that You will guard their children's lives,

and every father know the truth--that children are a gift from You."

(Lyrics from We Want to See the World by David Burke)

"My ultimate desire is for the song to help persuade an expectant parent to not have an abortion. I believe that this purpose is the reason the Holy Spirit gave me this song, and I am carrying out His work by spreading the song as far as possible to save as many lives as possible. If this composition saves just one life, every effort I put into the song will be worth it." (David Burke)

40 DAYS FOR LIFE DAY 19: Watching God at work

Pope John Paul II Prayer to Mary, the Light of Hope

Immaculate Heart of Mary, help us to conquer the menace of evil,

which so easily takes root in the hearts of the people of today,

and whose immeasurable effects already weigh down upon our modern world

and seem to block the paths toward the future.

From famine and war, deliver us.

From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction,

from every kind of war, deliver us.

From sins against human life from its very beginning, deliver us.

From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity of the children of God, deliver us.

From every kind of injustice in the life of society,

both national and international, deliver us.

From readiness to trample on the commandments of God, deliver us.

From attempts to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God, deliver us.

From the loss of awareness of good and evil, deliver us.

From sins against the Holy Spirit, deliver us.

Accept, O Mother of Christ,

this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings,

laden with the sufferings of whole societies.

Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all sin:

individual sin and the "sin of the world," sin in all its manifestations.

Let there be revealed once more in the history of the world

the infinite saving power of the redemption: the power of merciful love.

May it put a stop to evil. May it transform consciences.

May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of hope. Amen.

Mother of Sorrows

Today Catholics honor Our Blessed Mother under her title of Our Lady of Sorrows. Not only Catholics, but all of humanity owe a great debt of gratitude to her. When she was called to be the Mother of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, her "yes" had eternal repercussions for the benefit of all mankind. Out of love for God, she willingly took on not only the responsibilities of her divine calling, but also all of the sacrifices and sufferings that might be involved. Then from the Cross, Jesus gave his perfect Mother to all of us to be our Mother of Grace. She loves and watches over all her children of the world, even those who are so unfortunate as to not know her and love her.

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THANK YOU, BLESSED MOTHER,

FOR SAYING "YES" TO BEING THE MOTHER OF JESUS AND OUR MOTHER!

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O Mary conceived without sin,

pray for us who have recourse to you.

You have been so closely associated with the whole work of our redemption,

associated with the Cross of our Savior.

Your Heart was pierced by it, beside His Heart.

And now, in the glory of your Son,

you do not cease to intercede for us, poor sinners.

You watch over the Church and are the Mother of the Church.

You watch over each of your children.

You obtain for us from God all those graces symbolized

by the rays of light emanating from your open hands.

The sole condition on our part is that we come to you

with confidence, with boldness, and with the simplicity of a child.

~ Pope John Paul II ~

Pope John Paul II Entrusts the Cause of Life to Mary

O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living,

to you do we entrust the cause of life:

Look down, O Mother,

upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born,

of the poor whose lives are made difficult,

of men and women who are victims of brutal violence,

of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference

or out of misguided mercy.

Grant that all who believe in your Son

may proclaim the Gospel of life

with honesty and love to the people of our time.

Obtain for them the grace to accept that Gospel as a gift ever new,

the joy of celebrating it with gratitude throughout their lives,

and the courage to bear witness to it resolutely,

in order to build,

together with all people of good will,

the civilization of truth and love,

to the praise and glory of God,

the Creator and lover of life.

Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae