Respect Life Office

The Respect Life Office is a resource for finding the latest updates on upcoming events, facts and statistics on life issues. The Respect Life Office embraces the task of restoring respect for all human life from the moment of conception until natural death.

Join us in the many opportunities to show our commitment to the sanctity of life and the dignity of every human person.

We offer resources and a collection of ways to help respect life, both in prayer and in action. The following are some topics you will find addressed here:

• Prayer opportunities - such as the Respect Life Mass, Monthly Holy Hours, Rosary, and opportunities to pray in front of abortion facilities (Visit: PrayforLife.Org) and spiritual adoption plan
• Legislative action - such as letter writing campaigns and educational materials on candidates
• Educational material - to keep informed of the current issues in regards to life
• Better alternatives to abortion - such as pregnancy assistance and
  help after abortion: https://helpafterabortion.org Helpline Info: (703) 841-2504 (888-456-HOPE)
  For Men: (703) 841-3833 Email: info@helpafterabortion.org or info@ayudadespuesdelaborto.org
  
  

  Project Rachel is a diocesan post-abortion ministry that offers an integrated approach to healing for anyone affected by abortion with the compassionate support of trained staff, priests and licensed mental health professionals who understand this experience of unresolved sorrow, trauma and grief with the utmost care, compassion and sensitivity. For confidential help, please contact us:

  Other Resources: https://helpafterabortion.org | www.facebook.com/HelpAfterAbortion

   
  The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. To the same Father and his mercy you can with sure hope entrust your child. With the friendly and expert help and advice of other people, and as a result of your own painful experience, you can be among the most eloquent defenders of everyone's right to life. Through your commitment to life, whether by accepting the birth of other children or by welcoming and caring for those most in need of someone to be close to them, you will become promoters of a new way of looking at human life.   

  Evangelium Vitae, St. John Paul II