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Annually, on
the first Sunday in October, LIFE CHAIN invites the churches in
each city and town across North America to stand on a designated
local sidewalk and pray for one hour, while holding one of the
following approved pro-life sign messages:
- ABORTION KILLS CHILDREN
- JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS
- ADOPTION: THE LOVING OPTION
- LORD, FORGIVE US AND OUR NATION
- ABORTION HURTS WOMEN
- PRAY TO END ABORTION
- LIFE—THE FIRST INALIENABLE RIGHT
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The easy-to-hold 18" x 22" Life Chain
signs are backprinted to feature Prayer Topics, Songs of Meditation, the
Life Chain Code of Conduct, and a compelling statement on The Purpose of
LIFE CHAIN. In addition to the prayer topics listed, local pastors are
encouraged to add other prayer topics and to instruct their people in how
to pray and meditate for a full hour.
During the Life Chain hour, idle chatter, frivolity, and both verbal and
physical responses to motorists are strongly discouraged. LIFE CHAIN is a
time for prayerful self-analysis, repentance, and serious commitment to
helping end abortion in our nation.
Accordingly, LIFE CHAIN is not chiefly a demonstration, and its witness is
not intended for the viewing public only. Instead, its first goal is to
minister to its own participants—to those who call Christ their Lord and
hold pro-life messages that declare abortion a grave evil that defames the
name and holiness of God (Leviticus 18:21). Indeed the Church that Christ
founded has drifted into cold indifference toward the sacredness of human
life, and the result has been the mindless surgical killing and mutilation
of over 45 million preborn Americans, plus untold millions who have fallen
victim to abortive chemicals and medical neglect.
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St Julie Billiart
Parish