Healing After Abortion Retreat

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March 2-4, 2012 Rachel’s Vineyard weekend retreats are a beautiful opportunity for any person who has struggled with the emotional or spiritual pain of an abortion. The retreat is a very specific process designed to help an individual experience the mercy and compassion of God. It is also an opportunity to surface and release repressed feelings of anger, shame, guilt and grief. There are many exercises to help someone grieve the loss of his or her unborn child and to receive and accept … [Read more...]

Halloween Costumes for Needy Children

The Life Abortion Alternative Ministries (LAAM) will be collecting used or new costumes to give out to needy children for Halloween. Collection boxes will be located in the church narthex THIS weekend. … [Read more...]

40 Days for Life

Help saves lives! Take a stand for Life. Pray to end abortion. This Lent, from February 7-March 28, 2010, our parish will hold a special Holy Hour beginning next Saturday, February 20th, and every Saturday thereafter from 8:00am to 9:00 am during the "40 Days for Life" Pro-life Campaign. 40 Days for Life is a focused Pro-life Campaign that consists of: 40 days of prayer and fasting 40 days of peaceful vigil 40 days of community outreach Prayer vigil starts on Ash Wednesday … [Read more...]

Breaking News: Bishops Call for Unprecedented, Massive Catholic Opposition to Abortion in Current Health Care Reform

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'We will raise our voices to protect the unborn and the most vulnerable and to preserve our freedom of conscience' WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) - An E-mail directive has been sent from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life Activities Secretariat mobilizing every parish in the United States of America. It contains an urgent message which is to be distributed in every parish this weekend and announced at every single Mass. This massive and urgent appeal may be … [Read more...]

40days for Life

All are invited to "Kick Off Rally"40days for Life. September 20, 2009 at St Basil Catholic Church at 11:30 Am Mass. Rev. Walter Hoye will be the guest Speaker. He is the founder of Issues4Life. He was jailed for refusing to stop offering help to pregnant women outside an abortion cliniic in Oakland. Short program after the Mass Finger food will be served. All volunteers from St.Vincent, St Basil, St. Catherine, St. Dominic, and first Baptist Church will be together to celebrate this … [Read more...]