A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world. Through special initiatives and in daily prayer, may an impassioned plea rise to God the Creator and lover of life, from every Christian community, from every group and association, from every family and from the heart of every believer.
~ Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), n. 100Catholics4LIFE Spiritual Adoption Prayer for Life Card
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Prayer for Life:
Loving God, Creator of all life, You have known us from all eternity. Before You ever formed us in our mothers’ wombs You knew us. Teach us to foster proper attitudes about all of Your creation, the unborn, the elderly, the handicapped, the terminally ill. Help us to see anew the miracle and sacredness of all life and give us a greater awareness of our responsibility toward this gift from You. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
~Unknown
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness
for the child of her
womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.
See, upon the palms of my hands
I have written your name”
– Isaiah 49:15-16It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.
~ Ephesians 2:10You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous – and how well I know it. You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion! You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your Book!
~ Psalm 139:13-16Click here for some wonderful prayer resources provided by the USCCB.
