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[US Bishops] "Calling for a national campaign of prayer beginning on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation and the day before the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments for the abortion pill case, The bishops asked for Catholics to invoke the intercession of St. Joseph, whose feast is celebrated March 19, under the title Defender of Life “for the end of abortion and the protection of women and preborn children.”
March 25 also marks the anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s pro-life encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), in which he affirmed the Church’s constant teaching on the sanctity of human life and the gravity of the crime of abortion.
The prayer to St. Joseph, Defender of Life, is as follows:
Dearest St. Joseph, at the word of an angel, you lovingly took Mary into your home. As God’s humble servant, you guided the Holy Family on the road to Bethlehem, welcomed Jesus as your own son in the shelter of a manger, and fled far from your homeland for the safety of both Mother and Child. We praise God that as their faithful protector, you never hesitated to sacrifice for those entrusted to you. May your example inspire us also to welcome, cherish, and safeguard God’s most precious gift of life. Help us to faithfully commit ourselves to the service and defense of human life —especially where it is vulnerable or threatened. Obtain for us the grace to do the will of God in all things. Amen.
The bishops have asked Catholics to offer this prayer daily, from March 25 through June, until a ruling is issued.
Online and print versions of the prayer can be found at www.respectlife.org/prayer-to-st-joseph
We proclaim that human life is a precious gift from God; that each person who receives this gift has responsibilities toward God, self and others; and that society, through its laws and social institutions, must protect and nurture human life at every stage of its existence.
https://www.usccb.org/prolife
https://charlottediocese.org/faith-life/family-life/
To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom: "Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin."John Paul II, Evangelium vitae, 20
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