40 Days for Life

The 40 Days for Life campaign is well underway this Lent. It is a wonderful opportunity offer your prayers and fasting for an end to abortion. The campaign asks participants (and anyone can participate) to fast and offer holy hours, masses, rosaries for an end to the crime that has killed over 40 million children in the U.S. since Roe V. Wade legalized abortion.

Additionally in Austin, people can participate in the prayer vigils at a local abortion facility which take place every Saturday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. during Lent. What a blessed opportunity to join Christ on the road to Calvary.

I realize that praying at abortion clinics is out of the comfort zone of many people. It is so easy to pray and worship Christ in all His glory at Mass, and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The disciples who were with Jesus during his public ministry would probably agree. They too found comfort being with him when things were going well. But where were they in his agony in the garden? His own apostles failed to keep watch; they fell asleep. Where were they are on the road to Calvary? What comfort it must of brought to our Lord when his mother met him on that road or when Veronica wiped his face at a time when his closest friend abandoned him.

Now imagine what comfort it brings our Lord when we can be His light in the calvary of these abortion clinics; when we show these mothers who are in despair during a difficult situation that we care, that we support them, that they and their children are in our prayers. We do not judge them, but we pray for their conversion and repentance.

Matthew 5:15-16, says, “Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”

Let your light shine for life this Lent. We’re planning on making one of the March vigils and would love for you to join us!