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The parish Respect Life team invites you to join us in prayer for life, every Thursday in October, at noon, in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Each week we will pray a different set of prayers, for life and for healing. Click here for more information.

October is Respect Life Month, and we are asking all parishioners who know how to crochet, knit, quilt, etc. to make a baby blanket during October for the local crisis pregnancy center. Give these mothers the gift of knowing someone cares enough to create a soft, bright, welcoming blanket for their baby. Click here for more information.

Please join us at the New Jersey Bishops' Mass for Life, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, in Trenton, on Thursday, September 25. Then, a short walk away at the Statehouse Annex, the NJ Rally & March for Life will be held at 11:00 AM. Click here for details.

History was made recently when Planned Parenthood and other big businesses were banned from receiving federal Medicaid dollars for a period of one year. However, Planned Parenthood sued, and a preliminary court ordered injunction was granted that requires taxpayer funding to continue. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops invites Catholics to pray daily throughout this month to end taxpayer funding of the abortion industry, invoking St. Joseph, Defender of Life. Click here for the prayer.

Click here to see an excerpt from a letter received from Good Counsel in response to our Lenten Work of Love.

Click here to see an excerpt from a letter received from Options for Her, one of the pro-life pregnancy centers we collected for during our Lenten Work of Love.

Thanks for being so generous to our Lenten “Work of Love” to benefit pro-life women’s centers. The total collected throughout the season was $11,291.50. The funds were shared equally by Options for Her, Trenton and Good Counsel Home, Riverside.

The wounds of abortion can be crippling. One may or may not be able to name the pain or recognize any of the symptoms. A Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat is a chance to address this painful time through a supportive, non-judgemental process, in a confidential and compassionate atmosphere. Click here for more information.

The Respect Life Ministry of OLS-SA is hosting a group rosary at an online Zoom conference every Wednesday evening at 6:45 PM. We invite everyone to join us in praying this rosary as a group for the express intention of an end to abortion. Click the article title for contact information and details.

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion throughout the United States. Although the Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it left the decision on abortion to the states, and our state of New Jersey is one of those which are hostile to unborn children. Our prayer and advocacy are still very needed. Click here for more information.

The Knights of Columbus Councils of St. Gregory the Great and St. Anthony of Padua Parishes are sponsoring a bus trip to the nation’s capital Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 24, 2025. Click here for details.

All are invited to participate in the Mass for Life and Life Expo on Friday, January 24, 2025, at 11:00 AM at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine, Freehold. Click here for details.

The Respect Life Ministry would like to thank parishioners for their generous support of the recent sale of New Jersey Right to Life raffle tickets. OLS-SA parishioners purchased 215 tickets, contributing nearly $2,200 to support NJRTL with their on-going Pro Life efforts here in New Jersey.

Tickets benefiting New Jersey Right to Life are available in the parish office until Wednesday, November 6, for $10/ticket. The drawing will be held on November 22, 2024.

Pro-woman IS pro-life, and pro-life IS pro-woman. The idea that abortion empowers women is one of many lies in society that are, in reality, incredibly harmful to women. Abortion advocates perpetuate the myth that women must do violence to themselves in order to preserve their equality and the freedom to advance in the world. Click here to see an abridged article by Kimberly Baker from the USCCB website.

October is a time to proclaim and live the Gospel of Life! Join us on Thursdays for special prayers for life, held before the Lord of Life, Jesus, exposed in the Blessed Sacrament. Click here for details.

Click here to find out more about what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says about the death penalty.

Our Respect Life representatives will be selling raffle tickets benefiting the New Jersey Right to Life after all Masses at Our Lady of Sorrows on October 26, and after all Masses at St. Anthony on November 2. Raffle tickets are $10 each.

Our bishop, David M. O'Connell, gave a strong and excellent homily on our duty to protect life.

In centuries past, the cross of terminal illness was seen as an opportunity to be compassionate to the sick and for "offering up" of suffering for the good of others by the sick. There is a process of "letting go" and entrustment to God by everyone that needs to happen, a process that must not be short-circuited by euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. Click here for more information on end-of -life care.