Forty Days for Life

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While all aspects of 40 Days for Life are crucial in our effort to end abortion, the most visible component is the peaceful prayer vigil outside the National Women’s Health Organization,Inc. Raleigh, NC facility.
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Growing in the womb

A beautiful video showing the progress of a baby in his mother’s womb until birth.

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The OLPH March for Life 2008 Video

To see two and a half minute video of pictures and footage from the March for Life in DC, click here:
watch the video

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More Photos

….from Paul Tomas, professional photographer.  If you scroll toward the end (#62), you’ll see our familiar patroness icon which kept us all together in the throngs of people.  While scrolling, you’ll see additional familiar faces.
Also, don’t miss the Diocesan gallery found here.  Our contingent was well-photographed!  While at the diocesan website take time to watch [...]

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The March for Life 2008 Experience

I want to give a brief synopsis of what happened at the March for Life yesterday for those of you who were not able to make the trip.  Essentially, we left on time at 4:15am with 47 people on the bus.  We represented Eastern Carolina with people from OLPH, Immaculate Conception, St. Peter’s (Greenville), St. [...]

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March for Life 2008

Here is our local presence at the March for Life 2008. We are at the steps of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception just before the start of the Mass for Life con-celebrated by Bishops Burbidge and Jugis and the priests of North Carolina.

Here are pictures from fellow marcher, Steve:

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Pictures from Raleigh Pro-Life Rally

See pictures from the Raleigh Pro-Life rally held on January 12th, 2008 here

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The World is Upside Down

Last month, on December 9, the Raleigh News & Observer published an article celebrating an award given to a lady named Susan Hill who owns the Raleigh abortion clinic we pray at every month. Her commitment to women’s rights garnered her the Nancy Susan Reynolds award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (North Carolina’s Nobel [...]

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March for Life 2008 Video

This is a one-minute video about the upcoming March for Life trip.

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More reflections on the abortion clinic visit

From Julie:

Four months has passed since I last prayed at the abortion clinic. I knew I must go but I still mulled over a half-dozen reasons why I could put it off one more month. But as I was leaving to go to Mass and still clinging to one lame excuse, my husband told me [...]

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We are freaks

I am very cold.
I am so cold I am shivering.
It is mid-morning in January in North Carolina and it is cold. Not the Omaha kind of cold; but the North Carolina kind of cold: in the upper 30’s, sunny, a little breezy, giving us a sense of ‘wind chill’.
It is my fault that I am [...]

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