The first weekend of every month is our Respect Life Awareness Weekend.     That's this weekend!

Although many in the current women's rights movements have made legalized abortion on demand one of the main items on their agenda, it is interesting to note that the founders of the women's movement in this nation were principled and courageous foes of abortion.    In fact, the founders insisted that abortion is killing of innocent babies and that it denigrates the sacredness of human life.

For instance, Susan B. Anthony called abortion "child murder".    Elizabeth Cady Stanton described abortion as "infantcide".

Of course, abortion is only one aspect as His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, reminds us.   Respecting Life means defending life against all that harms any life:    war, famine, capital punishment, murder, suicide, euthanasia, enslavement, etc.

Stop by our Respect Life Table and look over the material.     Remember there are cassettes and videos you can borrow and take home.

Remember our "Crib Project"!      We monthly gather items for newborn babies and small infants:   cribs, high chairs, disposable diapers, blankets, toys, baby clothes, bottles and powdered formula, baby hygienic care items such as powders, soaps and other such things.

This Tuesday, July 4^th, is Independence Day.    We will follow our normal Holiday Schedule.

There will be only one Mass at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 4^th. Also, all Parish Offices will be closed on Tuesday.

This Wednesday is the first Wednesday of the month, and so it is our Monthly Day of Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life.    The day begins with praying the Liturgy of the Hours Morning Prayer at 7:45 a.m.     Then we celebrate Morning Mass, followed by Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.      Reposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 7:15 p.m. is followed by the 7:30 p.m. Mass, and then by the Novena to St. Jude.

Surely each of us can spend some time praying to Jesus this Wednesday to send laborers into His Vineyard, for the harvest is ready but the laborers are few.