St. Mary's and St. Patrick's Church are in the second month of the Adopt-a-Baby program.  It is not to late to pray for an unborn baby and their parents. The program will continue to the end of October, respect for life month.  Each month a new development poster is displayed. Everyone loves the beauty and innocence of a baby. But not all babies who are newly conceived are allowed to be born. More than 4,000 babies lose their lives every day. 

As faithful Catholics we are asked to come together as the body of Christ uniting our prayers promoting life in all its stages. To help stop the anti-life push around the world, the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen encouraged the spiritual adoption of an unborn child. This is done by naming your baby and praying that the one particular but unknown child’s life and their parents 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 nine months. “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the life of [baby’s name] the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion.” - Prayer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

We have the opportunity to make a lasting difference in saving lives and souls for Jesus. Our prayer intercession will be to end all pain, grief and attacks against the family unit and the disregard for human life, from conception to the end of life.