Our opening Vigil had 12 prayer warriors: Jenny, Sue, Marsia, Richard, Matt, Maribeth, Regina, Cathy, Paul, Andrea, Glenn, and a KofC member from St. Malachy. God graced us with a beautiful morning to gather for prayer. We read and sang from our Family Prayer Booklet--catching the attention of many people passing by. Many thumbs up were received! We read the daily devotional from the 40 Days for Life National team. We then listened to a reading called "Invisible Answers" from the new book: 40 Days for Life--Discover What God Has Done...Imagine What He Can Do. The words were very inspirational and encouraging; giving us the hope we need when it doesn't seem like our presence is making a difference (oh, what wrong thinking that is!). It was truly a blessing to begin the first day of our campaign with fellow prayer warriors and God's amazing grace! (Maribeth)
Evening - 6:00 p.m. Prayer Vigil
I blest myself with holy water & sprinkled a little on the ground then said all the opening prayers in front of my Lary of Guadalupe candle which I had four balloons attached, "Life is Precious", "It's a Boy", "I'ts a Girl" & another pro-life one. As I was the lone prayer warrior I sang the Our Fathers & Hail Mary's during the Rosary & read a brief Glorious Mystery before each Hail Mary, also sang three different short prayers after each decade. I then sang the Chaplet of Divine Mercy as I walked back & forth on the grass in front of WomanCare. Very peaceful prayer hour with a few happy honks then as I was getting ready to go, an elderly gentleman stopped his car & said with a very heavy Italian accent "I pray with you. God bless you." What a nice blessing to end my prayer hour. (Jenny)
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