What is 40 Days for Life? Bishop Richard Malone of
Portland, Maine offered about the best one-sentence
answer I've yet seen: "40 Days for Life is the work of
the Holy Spirit, a divine inspiration in the ongoing
effort to end the plague of abortion."

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

We had only 4 people show up for our Princeton, NJ, kick-off rally. The Princeton Women’s Ctr., located in W. Winsor, NJ, was open for business & we had decided to pray from 8:30-10 a.m. each Wednesday during the campaign in addition to Saturday mornings [our usual prayer time].

Since it was a weekday, there was much more vehicular traffic & our 40 days for Life yard signs help us present the message in a very effective way since the cars entering the complex in which the abortion mill is located had to slow down & read our signs before entering the parking lot.

A real positive aspect of this Fall’s campaign is that a local pastor has permitted us to put Pope John Paul II’s “prayer for life” into the parish bulletin & into all the missalettes in the pews of the church. There will also be prayers for the unborn during the “Prayers of the Faithful” at all Masses celebrated during the campaign.

We hope to get more participants as time goes on & are gearing up for our Woodbridge, NJ, kick-off ceremony this coming Saturday, September 26^th.

A voice for the defenseless poor,

Padre Van

Local coordinator, Woodbridge, NJ, 40 Days for Life.

Vh

Rev. Van A. Hager, i.m.c.

Consolata Missionaries

Box 5550

Somerset NJ 08875

Phone: (732) 297 9191/FAX: 940 3121

e-mail: RevVanAHager@yahoo.com

cell phone: 848 702 8535

Web Page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HisAngelsOfMercyii

http://www.40daysforlife.com/woodbridge/

This Fall, from Sept 23rd to Nov. 1st our community will be one of more than 212 cities in 45 states joining together for the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history -- the 40 Days for Life campaign.

We are praying that, with God's help, this groundbreaking effort will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in our city -- and throughout America.

You can help make a life-saving impact by joining our local vigil at:
American Women's Services/"American Wellness Center", 228 Main St., Woodbridge, NJ 07095 Please contact Bill Draghi at billdrag41@yahoo.com 732... or JoAnn Gerling at 732... or RevVanAHager@yahoo.com to learn more, to sign up for specific hours, or to let us know what other time[s] would be convenient for you to come & pray with us.