The Pro Life Committee at Holy Angels provides information and education on Pro-life issues from conception to natural death, as well as Pro-Life Pastoral Care, Public Policy, and Prayer. Meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm in the parish hall.
Please feel free to contact our POCs: Greg and Judy Beck, beckgt@gmail.com, 913-710-3966
THE GLORY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
“Lord, what is man that you care for him, mortal man that you keep him in mind?... With glory and honor you crowned him, giving him power over the works of your hands” (Ps. 8:5-7).
Lord, we come before You,
Amazed at Your love for us.
You make human life in Your image
And therefore it is sacred.
Human life comes from You,
It belongs to You,
And it returns to You.
As human beings,
We are capable of a relationship with You
By which we know You, love You and serve You,
And will be united with You forever.
O Lord, “You have been my guide since I was first formed,
from my mother’s womb you are my God” (Ps 22:10-11).
The life of each of us,
And of each baby in the womb,
Reveals to the world
Your love and Your glory.
Lord, may we never lose our amazement
At the gift of human life.
May we never lose our reverence
For every life that intersects with our own.
And may we never lose our readiness
To sacrifice ourselves to save the lives of others.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
Pro-Life Prayers to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist
"My Body"
"This is My Body, given up for you." Lord Jesus, we hear Your words each day at Mass. You have used these words to teach us the meaning of Your love for us, a love that brought You to the cross to give Your life so we might live. You use these words also to teach us the meaning of our love for one another, a love which leads us to give ourselves away that others might live.
"This is my body." Lord, we also hear these words used by those who think they can take life, just because that life is growing within their body. We hear these words distorted by those who support abortion.
Grant that all Your people may learn that human fulfillment is never found by pushing someone else out of the way, but only and always by pushing ourselves out of the way. May all Your people live their lives according to Your most sacred words, "This is my body, given up for you!"
Unity
Thank You, Lord Jesus, for the gift of the Holy Eucharist, Your Sacred Body, by which You unite us as one body in You. "For we, many though we are, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf"(1 Cor. 10:17) As we receive You, O Lord, You also receive us. As You draw us up to Yourself, You draw us also into one another. "You are the Body of Christ, and individually members of it" (1 Cor. 12:27).
Lord, grant that we may never exclude any of the other members of Your Body from our love. As we receive Your Body in Communion, so let us receive and welcome all the members of Your Body, no matter how inconvenient they may be. Help us especially to welcome those who have become the most unwelcome members of our world, namely, those who have just entered it. Bless our brothers and sisters in the womb. Rid our world of the sin of abortion, which divides parents from their own children, from one another, from their very selves, and from You, O Lord.
Grant that the power of Unity which we find in the Eucharist may overcome the fear of the unborn child, and may enable us to welcome that child as a brother, a sister, a member of Your Body. Amen.
Faith
Lord Jesus, I firmly believe that the Blessed Sacrament is Your very Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. Senses cannot grasp this marvel. Faith, however, reaches beyond what the eyes can see and assures us that You are present.
Grant, O Lord, that our faith in the Eucharist may also strengthen our ability to recognize the dignity of every human life. We know that the senses can fool us there as well. Some may not be attractive, others may seem too small, some may appear as less than human.
But we, who can see You in the Sacred Host, can certainly see you in our brothers and sisters. We can also see You, O Lord, in the children in the womb. In a day when so many have forgotten these children, and dismiss them as less valuable than those who are born, grant that we may grow all the more convinced of their dignity and worth.
Then grant, O Lord, that we may act accordingly. Amen.
by Fr. Frank Pavone,
Priests for Life