The Respect Life Committee is a ministry that supports and promotes pro-family and pro-life issues and activities, working closely with and under the direction of the Respect Life Office of the Diocese of Trenton.
Our most important activity is prayer for an end to abortion, suicide, euthanasia, and infanticide. Following the weekday daily Mass (which is at 12 noon), the recitation of the Rosary includes the special invocation “Jesus, protect and save the unborn.” The monthly Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (on the first Monday of the month, at 8:00 p.m.) is offered for the unborn. We encourage our members to spend an hour a week before Our Lord during Eucharistic Adoration (Monday – Friday, 12:30 – 3:55, in the church), praying for the conversion of all those involved in abortion, suicide, euthanasia, and infanticide.
We participate in activities sponsored by the diocesan Respect Life Office, such as the annual trip to Washington, D.C., for the March for Life (on or about January 22), the annual, diocesan, Respect Life Masses (in March), and various legislative petitions regarding legislation that involves respect-life issues such as abortion or physician-assisted suicide. We also encourage our parishioners to visit the diocesan Respect Life website, https://www.dioceseoftrenton.org/respect-life-ministry.
We also sponsor a number of events during the year, including:
* the annual Life Chain (on the first Sunday in October),
* the semiannual, 40 Days for Life event (in the spring and fall),
* a Respect Life table with pro-life literature at the annual Catholic Men for Jesus Christ rally (in March),
* seminars on pro-life topics.
If you are interested in making a difference in countering today’s culture of death, please contact us, via the parish office’s email address (in the right-hand bar of this webpage).
Lisa Franey
Chairperson
St. Veronica Parish Respect Life Committee
Related information and Respect Life Events:
Annual Prolife events and prayers: https://www.usccb.org/prolife/annual-pro-life-events
Diocese of Trenton Resources: https://dioceseoftrenton.org/respect-life-ministry
Project Rachel Ministry is a Diocesan based healing network of caregivers, including priests, mental health professionals and others who provide one-on-one support and care to those struggling after involvement in an abortion. Click on the picture above for more information on this resource.
Walking with Moms in Need is an initiative through which Catholic parishes and communities “walk in the shoes” of local pregnant and parenting women in need. Pregnant and need help? Click on the picture for resources available in your area.
Click on event flyers below for more information, resources and registration.
January 24: Mass for Life and 3rd Annual Standing Together Life Expo: beginning at 11:00AM at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine.
Link Refreshments will be available. All welcome – no rsvp necessary.
October is Respect Life Month. Please visit the Diocese of Trenton Website for more information on events and resoures.