Ministry Mission:
To provide the parishioners of St. Joseph's with the information and opportunities to defend the lives of the innocent and to cultivate a culture of life

The Respect Life Movement.
This ministry is an integral part of ensuring the existence of our beliefs and values as Christians! The time has come to put our many thoughts and prayers into action!
 
2 Chronicles 20:15 & 16 The Lord says to you “Do not fear or loose heart at the sight of this vast multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s!” Go down against them tomorrow.
 
God calls us to stand firm to what we believe. Our nation and our community need our help, not tomorrow or later but now!
 
I have been listening to meditations from Pope Benedict XVI and there is one that I feel was laid upon my heart to share;
 
In summary;

• Prayer is an act of consent, an affirmation. Christian prayer is the key to making the whole world a celebration (an affirmation), an act of being, purifying of oneself.
• Prayer yields deep security in affirmation to be as a foil to the hectic world of self made man.
• Prayer entrusts people with a task of not running from the world but purifying the world and empowers us to carry it out.
• The Son, Jesus, guides us along this path of purification which leads to the door of the Yes!

He also goes on to say;

• A world without Christ does not know its origin or its destiny. Today Christ is refused entry into the world, marginalized in our society by those who have great influence in our culture. He is excluded from the world of politics, business, law and medicine. Often the media ridicules Him. As followers we must bring Him, and His word of life, back into every place in our lives!

Please pray, and through prayer, find your place in the Respect for Life Movement. Commit; make a commitment to yourself and Our Lord, to love and protect the most innocent in life…our unborn babies.

1. Prayer, lots of prayer
2. Adoration
3. Standing in front of the abortion clinics praying and being witnesses for life
4. We will have the Florida Respect Life Conference at the Cody Center on October 12-13, 2012. Volunteers are needed.

 Please visit http://www.sjrl.com/ for more information on this Ministry.
  
We pray;
Jesus, give me courage to make your presence felt in the world around me, let me not be afraid to show that my faith in you is the center of my life!*
*written by Trinkett Mims

Contact:
Robert Taylor
robertctaylor46@yahoo.com