Hello Pro-life Heroes,
I hope you had a Merry Christmas and many blessings in the New Year! As the Luminaries for Life flier inside states, “We still have much work to do here in Michigan and know that even a small flame of light will show the way.”
Several churches will participate in Luminaries for Life on Saturday, January 21 (or an alternate night chosen by your community) in 2023. Many other churches are taking 2023 off following their immense financial and man-hour participation in the fight against Proposal 3 in the fall. The new plan for Luminaries for Life is to solemnly commemorate the victims of abortion, but also to celebrate the number of years after the Dobbs U.S. Supreme Court decision of June 24, 2022, with 2023 representing the 1st anniversary. Speaking of the 1st anniversary, if you are wondering why you have not heard more about the 3rd Annual Motor City Caravan for Life in 2023, it is because it has been moved from the January date of the last two years to Saturday, June 24 to celebrate the First Anniversary of the Dobbs decision overturning the previous erroneous interpretation of a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution.
I also cordially invite everyone to the annual Rose Mass and Ceremony on Wednesday, January 18. The Mass is at 6 pm at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Plymouth. If you have never been, you really must, as it is an extraordinarily prayerful and beautiful source of light in the darkness. Volunteers will carry up 50 roses in honor of all the preborn lives lost to abortion in the past 50 years of legal abortion in Michigan and place them in an empty crib in front of the altar. The language of this Rose Ceremony will be revised this year to more strongly emphasize legal abortion in Michigan, rather than nationally, in the wake of Dobbs and the passage of Proposal 3.
As mentioned previously, many church notes will focus on the evils of euthanasia this winter since so much time in 2022 was dedicated to the horrifying evils of abortion.
Finally, a reminder of our Chapter’s business hours: Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 11:30 am-4:30 pm. If you need to see us at another time, please call the office and we will set up an appointment! We are here to serve you as our wonderful Church Representatives!
In conversations with abortion supporters or the confused, focus on this essential question:
DO ALL HUMAN BEINGS DESERVE EQUAL RIGHTS OR ONLY SOME?
HAVE A JOYFUL & BLESSED NEW YEAR!
Yours in LIFE,
Timothy Pruse
Wayne County Chapter Director
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