Life Events

...I have set before you life and death...Choose life so that you and your descendants may live. (Deuteronomy 30:19)


I highly recommend that we join www.xt3.com and www.ApostleshipofPrayer.org, where we can join in prayers.

Also keep up to date on Life News through: LifeSiteNews.com and pray for the conversion of our hearts to respect life from the moment of conception to natural death.


1/11 - 19 Novena to prevent FOCA Also monitor on GovTrack.us, a civic project to track Congress.
1/14 7pm Youth for Life Meeting
1/14 - 22 Novena of Reparation for Roe vs. Wade
1/20 Olympia March for Life. Pray for coversion of President Obama and his administrtion.
1/22 March for Life in DC
1/24 West Coast Walk for Life at San Francisco, CA
1/24 - 25 Fight FOCA Postcard Campaign (USCCB)
1/31 Prolife Prayer Vigil in Everett

2/11 7pm Youth for Life meeting - Thank you Youth for Life for inspiring hope - through your peaceful prayerful presence with conviction for Life and Truth - our Lord, Jesus Christ!! Amen!

2/20 6 pm - 9:30 pm "Celebrate Life" Banquet for fundraising for Embracing Life Pregnancy Center, Marysville

2/21 - 2/22 Pulpit talk and sign-ups at St. Mary Magdalen Church

2/22 1 pm Free Concert with Catholic Recording Artist Donna Cori Gibson at Holy Family Parish, Kirkland

2/24 7 pm Everett 40 Days for Life Kick-off Rally!! Celebrate Mardi Gras with us!! ^^

2/25-4/5 40 Days for Life Spring 2009
* Prayer & Fasting
* Peaceful Vigil
* Community Outreach

40 Days for Life - Day 9 a feast day of St. Francis of Assisi

"...I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing - direct murder by the mother herself."

- Mother Teresa during her 1979 Nobel Peace Prize lecture

40 Days for Life - Day 7

Our Lady of Guadalupe
Intercessor of the Unborn

To help stop the anti-life push in the U.S. the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen encouraged the spiritual adoption of an unborn child. This is done by praying that one particular but unknown child's life be spared abortion and be allowed to continue to live.

To help accomplish this, it was recommended, an individual say the following daily prayer for a period of one year.

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the life of the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion."

During your earthly life this spiritually adopted child of yours will be known only to God but in the world to come it is hoped that you will meet the child whose life was spared by your prayers and spend eternal happiness with them.

from: Fr. Michael Peters
9537 University Ave. - #18
Des Moines, IA 50325


October is a month of Rosary and it was wonderful for me to start October, yesterday, with a morning mass at 7:30 am at St. Mary Magdalen Church and then at 10 am, though at Planned Parenthood, but fervently praying 20 decades of rosary during 3 hours of Prayer Vigil.

I guess I kept staying there for 3 hours each time I go there to pray. But it was worthwhile. I met wonderful people, including Michelle - God bless her!! It was very refreshing to be with such dedicated people. I am sure that I am usually surrounded by wonderful people, but for whatever reasons, I don't talk much about issues around Respect for Life.

Again, I am very grateful for the opportunity to pray for the babies who were mutilated in the name of abortion...for the convenience of mothers and/or fathers; for the babies in danger of being aborted; for so many women who know not about the spiritual and most probably physical dangers of contraception; and for the people involved directly or indirectly in the abortion industry!

I thank God for all the caring people who are coming out in the cold weather to pray for the same cause... to save babies and for the conversion of the hearts.

It was also the moment of conversion for me as I realized how passive I have been! I have to make a confession about how I did not think about the so-called "Crack" babies. Now I have another prayers to say for the other sufferers. For whatever reasons, people get into drugs and the babies are suffering because of that. But that does not mean those innocent babies should be killed.

I have to make yet another confession for not being very good about fasting... I should really be fasting & being on my knees so that there will be no more killing!!!!!

I was going to leave at noon after 2 hours of praying, but a woman came all by herself to pray and I meant to just pray the Glorious mystery with her. (Thank you, Michelle & Helpers of God's Precious Infants...for providing us with pregnancy resource materials, especially the prayer book - the wonderful meditations for rosary - from Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life) Recalling how she sheepishly introduced herself as not knowing much about Prayer Vigil as this was her first time, with a lovely story about the gold-turning Medjugorje rosary, a thought came through my mind as she was in tears as we were meditating through our prayers...our Church as many sleeping giants as her...so faithful and her prayers so powerful...and they are finally coming out and praying together...moving my hearts, drawing tears in my eyes, out of desperation for the lives of our babies...

+Praise Lord and I trust that we are fighting the victorious battle...we will win at the end. But we must persist in prayers!

40 Days for Life - Day 4

I signed Brad & myself for an hour at 9 pm Fridays during the 40 Days. But after a long day's work, Brad & I were both tired, and we finally had to detach ourselves from sofa at 8:55 pm, late for our first shift.

I couldn't keep my candle lit, but while praying Sorrowful Mystery, I thought about all the unborn babies who were killed in this very abortion clinic. I wanted to cry out loud.

Meanwhile, cars passed by or turned around after dropping off their mails at the post office across the street. There were some loud mopeds passing by as well.

Tired, Brad decided to sit in the car while I stood outside, praying rosary. It was getting cold, so I was about ready to leave at 10 pm as well. Then a woman joined me and introduced herself as Izzy. Brad came out of the car and joined us. Then soon after another couple came by with a big candle, lighted on the ground, so I also lighted my candles; and together we prayed rosary.

Then suddenly we heard loud motors of two mopeds, then a car pulled into the parking lot of the Planned Parenthood. The car said something like "Laboratory...". A man picked up two zip-locked bags and put them in the back seat. He had music and some kind of speech really loud. We had to really focus on our prayers. Soon after another car pulled in next to him. A woman and her three children (ages between 9 and 13) entered the building.

They were still in the building when we were done with our 5 decades of rosary. We were sharing our eerie feelings earlier. We guessed that maybe the woman who entered the building might be the owner of that abortion clinic. And we were feeling sorry for her children. But soon we noticed that they were cleaning the building, one of the children took out a couple of bags of garbage...mostly papers, but what if there were remains of struggling babies...

After the woman and her children left, we decided that we should leave right after midnight. No one else came by to continue the Vigil.

Brad & I didn't expect our Vigil to be for three hours!! - but truly worthwhile. If there were 80 couples willing to cover 2 hours for 6 times during 40 days, we can have a perpetual Prayer Vigil. Or if there were 160 couples then each couple can pray just for six hours during 40 days. If there were just 10% of our parishioners (say 1000 people), that would definitely be sufficient. If 10% from each of 4 parishioners in Everett came, we could easily have 4 people at every hour 24 x7 during the next 40 days!!!!

I look forward to my next prayer vigil. I signed up for Mondays 10 am, but I think I will also stop by more frequently ... for the next 40 days and beyond. Hopefully, I don't have to do this too long, but if it means to save a baby's life, I shall go on. May God help us through our endeavor. St. Michael, help us to fight against life-threatening evils.

Why we should participate

40 Days for Life: Sep 26 - Nov 4, 2007

For 40 days, we should actively participate to help stop abortion.
I pray that everyone will tithe their time and money to support the cause.

I also pray that we will efficiently utilize the resources to share our time, effort, solidarity, Gospel, and our common dream to help make our world a more peaceful place to live.

I pray that we will be focused with our effort - pray to stop abortion!!!