ASSEMBLY FOR LIFE
Massachusetts Citizens For Life
39th Annual Interfaith
ASSEMBLYFOR LIFE
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Great Hall at Historic Faneuil Hall
(1 Faneuil Hall Square, Boston, MA)
Keynote Speaker:
Wayne Cockfield
Vietnam War Veteran
Disability Rights Activist
Come join us…
Together with our religious leaders and political representatives.
Come as we stand… United For Life!
MCFL Buses for the March for Life
39th Annual March for Life
Red-eye Buses
Bellingham:
Departs from: St. Brendan Parish, Bellingham
Departure Date & Time: Sun., Jan 22nd at 9:00 PM (arrive at 8:30)
Return home Monday, Jan. 23rd at 5:00 PM
Cost: $25 (assistance may be available)
Contact: Gladys or Pat at 508-966-9802
Berkshire County:
Departs from: Adams, North Adams, Williamstown, Pittsfield and Great Barrington
Departure Date & Time: Sun., Jan. 22nd starting at 10:30 PM
Return home Monday, Jan. 23rd around 5-6 PM
Cost: $25 per person
Contact: Robin Loughman at 413-743-1329
Cambridge:
Departs from: St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge
Departure Date & Time: Sun., Jan. 22nd at 9:00 PM
Return home Monday January 23rd at 6:30 PM
Cost: $40 adults; $30 students
Contact: Juan Carmona at 617-435-1636 or carmona@post.harvard.edu
or register online at www.saintpaullife.blogspot.com (preferred)
Pioneer Valley:
Contact Cathy Rogers @ 413-583-5034 or info.pvmcfl@verizon.net
Waltham:
Departs from: St. Mary’s Church, Waltham
Departure Date & Time: Sunday, Jan. 22nd at 8:15 PM
Return home Monday, Jan. 23rd after March
Cost: $35 Adults; $25 Students
Checks made payable to MCFL, Inc., WWB Chapter may be mailed to Claire Dondis, 583 Belmont St., Belmont, MA 02478. Please include your telephone number.
Contact: Mary Ann Quirk at 617-489-4298
Weymouth:
Departs from: Immaculate Conception Church, Weymouth
Departure Date & Time: Sunday, Jan. 22nd at 9:00 PM (Optional pro-life prayer service at 8:00)
Return home Monday, Jan. 23rd after March
Cost: $50 Adults; $10 Students
Checks made payable to MCFL, Peggy McCormick Chapter may be sent to Sally Healy, 244 Jefferson St., Braintree, MA 02184
Contact: Sally Healy at 781-848-3796
Diocese of Worcester:
Buses will leave from St. Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday Jan. 22 following the Respect Life Mass at 7:30 PM and will travel to the Basilica of National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in time for Monday AM Mass followed by the March for Life at noon. Buses will return to Worcester immediately following
the March, arriving back at St. Paul’s at approximately 1:00 AM on Tuesday, Jan. 24. Cost is $80 per person for registrations received by Dec. 31. After Dec. 31, cost is $90. Information and registration forms can be found online here:http://www.worcesterdiocese.org/respectlife/NewsandEvents/MarchforLife/tabid/519/Default.aspx
Contact: Alison Ledoux at 508 929-4311
Buses with one or two overnight stays
Departs from: Burlington Mall
Departure Date & Time: Sat. Jan. 21st at 10:00 PM
One-night (Sun.) stay at Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill Hotel
Return home at 5:00 PM after the March arriving home around 2:00 AM
Cost: $196 per person, double occupancy (other rates available)
Contact: Theresa Gorey at 978-475-6673; Cell 978-886-2911;
email thegoreys@comcast.net or Jane Finn at 978-658-6115; Cell 978-618-5005
Departs from: Immaculate Conception in Malden
with second pick-up at St. Margaret’s in Burlington
Departure Date & Time: Sun., Jan. 22nd at 7:30 AM
Two-night (Sun. & Mon.) stay at Holiday Inn, College Park, MD
Return home on Tues., Jan. 24th arriving home around 8:00 PM
Cost: $210 per person, double occupancy; $315 single (other rates available)
Contact: Janet Callahan at 781-324-3564 or janet.callahan@yahoo.com
Departs from: St. Anne’s in Salem
Departure Date & Time: Sun., Jan. 22nd at 6:00 AM
Two-night (Sun. & Mon.) stay at hotel along the Capitol Beltway in MD
Return home Tuesday, Jan. 24th
Cost: $165 per person, double occupancy
Contact: Bill Kirby at 978-821-2556
Departs from the following locations: Orleans, E. Sandwich, Wareham
and another location to be determined (possibly New Bedford)
Departure Date and Time: Early Sun., Jan. 22nd
Two-night (Sun. & Mon.) stay at Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill
Return home Tuesday, Jan. 24th
Cost: $230 per person, double occupancy
Contact: Kevin Ward at 508-291-0949 or fkw194722@yahoo.com
MCFL 2012 Events
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Merry Christmas from MCFL
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Linda Thayer, our Vice President of Educational Affairs is also a published poet of whom we are very proud. Our Board and Staff wish to share with you Linda’s Christmas blessings. God bless you for all you do! Anne
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time has layered in sentiment the deeper truth her story has meant in the still of her soul in the silence of night she said yes in the dark and gave the world Light |
40 Days for Life Fall Campaign
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I know you have heard about the 40 DAYS FOR LIFE efforts. You probably heard David Bereit speak about 40 DAYS at the MCFL Walk a couple of years ago. If you have read Abby Johnson’s Unplanned, you know the power of this prayer effort. You can learn more about 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: http://40daysforlife.com/ . People across Massachusetts are about to start a 40 day vigil. You will see the locations are such that one of them will be convenient for you to participate. I hope you will be able to join. This state certainly needs the prayers. Blessings on you and all those working on this fine effort! Anne 40 DAYS FOR LIFE – LYNN, MA Contact: Vigil Site 40 DAYS FOR LIFE – HAVERHILL, MA Contact: Vigil Site: 40 DAYS FOR LIFE – SPRINGFIELD Contact: Vigil Site: 40 DAYS FOR LIFE – WORCESTER Contact: Vigil Site: For questions or more information, please contact: Lee Crowley 40 DAYS FOR LIFE – ATTLEBORO I am sorry, I do not have all the information for Attleboro, but I know you can contact Steve Marcotte Darlene Howard THANK YOU!
For more information about the Pro-Life cause in Massachusetts or to get involved
please visit our website at massprolife.com.
Please, use the link below to forward this email to everyone who might be interested! |
40 Days for Life Spring 2011 Campaign (March 9th to April 17th)
The Spring Campaign will run for 40 Days during LENT from Ash Weds. March 9th through Palm Sunday April 17th. The prayer vigil schedule will be open for coverage Mon – Fri from 7am to 9pm, and on the weekends from 9am till 3pm. The Vigil Scheduling Calendar is located on the website at 40daysforlife.com/haverhill. Please let me know if you have any issues registering or signing up for certain hours. If you prefer, just send me a note with the times you are able to cover, and I will update the schedule for you (1 hour intervals). We want to fill all days of the week, but most importantly Tuesdays and Fridays. The doctor is in the office on both of these days, so the more people we have on these two days the better.
Please help spread the word. On the website, at the top right hand corner, their is a tab for FORMS. If you click on this tab, you can download the Spring Flyer, The Bulletin Write Up, to post in your church bulletin, The Adopt a Day Form, and the Daily Devotional Prayers. I would greatly appreciate everyone’s effort in printing and circulating flyers, and also having the write up put into you church bulletin during the campaign . This year we are looking for each parish to commit to covering one day per week during the 5 weeks, so if you are able to sign up a group from your parish it would help fill the schedule much quicker. Please send me a note if you can assist here, so that our efforts are not duplicated. If you can coordinate having the flyer inserted into your church bulletin, let me know, and I should be able to provide you with the amount of copies needed.
Prayer Vigil location is as follows:
Abortion Clinic of Dr. Marcus Gordon
288 Groveland St., Haverhill, MA 01830
Prayer Vigil is on the street sidewalk. Buffer zone is 35 feet, and is typically marked on the sidewalk with red paint.
Directions: Rt. 495 North to Exit 49 River St (Rt 110/113). Turn right off of exit onto River St. (2.8 miles). Turn slight right onto Water St. (.4 miles). Turn slight left at Groveland St. (.9 miles). End at 288 Groveland St. Park on Pine St., which is the 1st left after the clinic. Do not park on anyone’s property. You may also park on any of the side streets in the area.
John Fleury
URGENT! Act MONDAY to defund Planned Parenthood
From 40 Days for Life: This is our moment to make a PROFOUND difference! Are you sick and tired of Planned Parenthood getting $363 MILLION of taxpayer funding a year -- while aiding and abetting illegal underage sex trafficking? Then let's take a public stand Monday to tell Congress: "NO MORE TAX $ for Planned Parenthood!" This Monday, February 14, 40 Days for Life is helping to coordinate "Vigils for Victims" that will be held outside Planned Parenthood offices coast-to-coast from Noon to 1 PM in each U.S. Time Zone ... ... and YOU can make an impact in one hour! Find out how at: http://www.ExposePlannedParenthood.com/vigil Here's what going on ... For the last two weeks, the national media has been abuzz with the shocking story of the undercover sting operation that caught abortion giant Planned Parenthood red-handed in the despicable act of aiding and abetting sex trafficking and prostitution of girls as young as 14. Numerous undercover videos have now been released, documenting Planned Parenthood workers at multiple locations across several states assuring an undercover investigator posing as a pimp that the organization would secretly provide abortions and other services to underage victims of human trafficking, facilitating their exploitation. Federal law is clear: "Sex trafficking of minors is a federal crime and punishable by imprisonment for 10 years to life." (18 U.S. Code 1591) Additionally, "any person who aids abets, or counsels a federal crime to be committed may be punished as if they had committed the crime themselves." (18 U.S. Code 2) The institution-wide scandal has now reached the highest levels at Planned Parenthood, with top executives making the appalling claim that their workers who were caught on video facilitating underage sex slavery "responded professionally." After receiving a record $363 MILLION in taxpayer funds last year, Planned Parenthood's president Cecile Richards then had the audacity to send out an urgent appeal for abortion advocates to contact Congress -- so the organization can rake in even MORE of your hard-earned tax dollars! And if that wasn't enough, now Planned Parenthood is attempting to hijack Valentine's Day as a marketing gimmick to expand its harmful agenda, shove condoms into the hands of young children, and lure even more vulnerable victims into its facilities. *** ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! *** It is vital for us to act swiftly and take a public stand against Planned Parenthood's harmful agenda -- raising awareness in the communities where we live, and calling upon Congress to IMMEDIATELY strip the abortion chain of all tax funding. This Monday, February 14, you can help make that happen by holding a one-hour "Vigil for Victims" during the Noon hour in the public right-of-way outside the Planned Parenthood office nearest to you. This requires rapid action on all our parts, but will show Planned Parenthood -- and the media -- the power of pro-life America to bring about vital change! No experience is required! Find out exactly what to do by visiting: http://www.ExposePlannedParenthood.com/vigil Together, we really can make a difference! Let's act quickly to make sure Planned Parenthood is held fully accountable for its willingness to aid and abet underage sex trafficking, and let's tell Congress that the time has come to DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD! For Life, David Bereit National Director 40 Days for Life P.S.- I will personally be standing vigil outside the Planned Parenthood at 1108 16th Street NW, in Washington, DC from noon to 1 PM, and Shawn Carney will be outside the Planned Parenthood at 201 N. Hamilton Street in Richmond, VA. If you're nearby, come join us -- or do the same where you live! Find out more and learn how YOU can make a difference at: http://www.ExposePlannedParenthood.com/vigil ***************************************************** Please forward this important message to family, friends, co-workers, church members -- everyone! *****************************************************
Amazing!
From Sean Carney, 40 Days for Life: What an amazing few days! After speaking at a big pro-life event in Little Rock, Arkansas, I joined hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Washington, DC for the March for Life. Before coming to the March for Life, our national director, David Bereit, was with former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson at the West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco, The West Coast Walk for Life is a rapidly growing event that attracted a record crowd this year. Check out this amazing video of David and Abby firing up the audience of 50,000 people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZBxrJ6fcw The enthusiasm we saw in San Francisco and Washington is now about to spill over in cities from coast to coast -- and around the world ... ... Because the next 40 Days for Life campaign kicks off in just six weeks! THIS MORNING the EWTN television network is airing a special about 40 Days for Life at 9 AM Eastern (8 AM Central, 7 AM Mountain, 6 AM Pacific). The program is called "Being Human," and it shows what 40 Days for Life is all about -- and the impact it can have in YOUR community! EWTN is found on many cable and satellite TV systems, so check your local listings for the channel, and encourage everyone you know to watch or record it! You can also watch online at http://www.ewtn.com -- just click on "television" ... then on "Live TV." We've also heard rave reviews from the national Focus on the Family radio programs last week that featured Abby Johnson and me talking about how why she left her job at a Planned Parenthood abortion center and joined the pro-life movement. You can hear both of these programs online ... Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/4lteu4a Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/4sg6y8h I've already heard from numerous people who've been inspired by Abby's story to bring 40 Days for Life to their communities for the first time -- just based on what they heard on the radio! If YOU feel led to LEAD a 40 Days for Life campaign in your town, applications for the next campaign, which runs from March 9 - April 17, are open for a few more days. Fill out the application online at: http://40daysforlife.com/apply Applications will remain open ONLY until next Monday, January 31. You can apply online or by mail. With all the amazing energy we're seeing across America and around the world, I think this is going to be a great campaign ... and I can hardly wait to get started! For Life, Shawn Carney Campaign Director 40 Days for Life P.S.- Inspired by the video of David Bereit and Abby Johnson firing up the 50,000 attendees at the West Coast Walk for Life? Leave a comment on the YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZBxrJ6fcw
Impressions from the March
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MA on the March!
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