October is Respect Life Month
 
Join Catholics nationwide in celebrating Respect Life Month throughout October and reflect more deeply on the dignity of every human life. Each October the Church in the United States celebrates Respect Life Month, the First Sunday of October is observed as Respect Life Sunday. As Catholics, we are called to cherish, defend, and protect those who are most vulnerable, from the beginning of life to its end, and at every point in between. 
 
 Learn about upholding the sanctity of every human life.
 Visit https://adw.org/respectlife/ and https://www.usccb.org/respectlife.
 
 Please pray as a family for Respect Life Month
 
 Heavenly Father,
 The beauty and dignity of human life was the crowning of your creation.
 You further ennobled that life when your Son became one with us in
 His incarnation.  Help us to realize the sacredness of human life and
 To respect it from the moment of conception until the last moment
 at death.  Give us courage to speak with truth and love and with
 conviction in defense of life.  Help us to extend the gentle hand of mercy
 and forgiveness to those who do not reverence your gift of life.
 To all, grant pardon for the times we have failed to be grateful
 for your precious gift of life or to respect it in others.
 
 We ask this in Jesus' Name.
 Amen