Saint Rita Parish Respect Life Group

Our mission is to make the respect life message live in the hearts and actions of all Saint Rita parishioners. Restoring respect for human life at all stages from initial conception to natural death is our goal. Our program embraces the four foundational aspects of this task as articulated by our Bishop Paul S. Loverde, namely: prayer, education, action, and sacrifice.

Monthly Respect Life Mass, 8 a.m.

Pray the Holy Rosary following Mass at the Duke Street abortion facility. For directions to the abortion facility, click here. (Google maps is free.)

Special Events—PLEASE JOIN US

Check out our current Calendar of Activities.

40 Days For Life — February 17 through March 28

SPECIAL ST. RITA DAY — SATURDAY, February 27

40 Days for Life is an extraordinary opportunity to stand up for the culture of life. Join us by praying the Holy Rosary, respectfully, at the Duke Street abortion facility (same location as our 4^th Saturday Rosary). It only takes an hour, or as much or as little time as you can devote. St. Rita will sponsor one day, February 27^th — the same day as our Respect Life Mass and Rosary.

Be sure to sign up for this date. Hours are 7 am–10 pm. For more info go to www.40daysforlife.com/alexandria. To sign up, go to www.vigilcalendar.com/alexandria. If you have any questions or problems, contact Heide Seward, 703-323-0181, 703-673-8758 or hwseward@verizon.net.

Ask the Priest Night

Sunday, March 7^th at 7 p.m., School Hall. Fun — Facts — Food and Wine — and a NEW format enabling us to handle many more questions. Place your questions in the box in the vestibule, or bring with you March 7. Don’t miss this popular event. Bring your friends and neighbors. Adults only, please. For more, click here.

St. Rita Parish “BABY SHOWER”

For the benefit of local pregnancy crisis centers. May, 2010.

Learn more about Respect Life, check out these web sites:

Please consider adding A Prayer For Life to your daily devotions.

WE ARE A PEOPLE OF LIFE, AND A PEOPLE FOR LIFE.

One major focus is our monthly Respect Life Mass celebrated on the fourth Saturday of each month followed by Holy Rosary prayer at the Duke Street Alexandria abortion facility where we pray in order to (1) ask for Divine assistance in the struggle to establish appropriate respect for life and to eliminate abuses against human life and; (2) to be a public example to our neighbors, abortion clients, abortionists, and abortion facility employees that abortion is truly an evil which terminates human lives and needs to be remedied; (3) to offer arriving abortion clients one last opportunity to change their minds; and (4) to make known to abortion clients that both a support ministry and a healing ministry are available for them so that they can have their child. If interested in joining, please contact Joe Schramm at 202-466-0555 or schramm@schrammadvertising.com.

The Saint Rita Parish Respect Life Group sponsors a variety of parish-wide activities designed to help restore respect for all human life.

For information, contact Joe Schramm, 202-466-0555, or schramm@schrammadvertising.com.