Day for Life 2008

This year’s Day for Life is fast approaching (31 May, Feast of the Visitation). Mental health is the theme and we’ll be focusing on the mental health issues surrounding crisis pregnancy and abortion with our ‘Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones’ campaign. We’ll be posting more in coming days but for now look here to see how you, your class, parish or group can get involved.

Deliveries

With many thanks to Anne who’s letter and parcel arrived today.

For a mother needing your help and encouragement, and a baby needing love.
                                                                With love from Anne

Thank you and God bless you!

Fr Roger Nesbitt at Canmore

We mentioned last week that Sr Roseann was in St Andrews with Fr Roger Nesbitt. Here’s Fr Nesbitt with some of the students of the wonderful Canmore Catholic Society.

Would anyone like..?

Unusually, we’re not scrounging but rather have some things to give away. If you’re in Glasgow and have access to transport we have a knitting machine, an electric cooker and a computer (it’s not broadband-ready, it doesn’t have an ethernet connection) looking for good homes. If you’re interested, email us for more details. Thank you and God bless.

Sr Roseann at the Linacre Ethics Forum

The Linacre Ethics Forum provides an opportunity for junior healthcare professionals and students (medics, nurses, pharmacists etc.) to explore and discuss Catholic healthcare ethics. Each month a senior practitioner or other expert is invited to give a 30 minute presentation, followed by discussion. The aim is to understand the Church’s teaching, and explore ways in which it can be presented sympathetically to patients, colleagues and managers.

Next week (Tuesday 13 May) Sr Roseann will be speaking on crisis pregnancy counselling. The talk is at 6.30pm (for 7pm) take place in Vaughan House, Francis Street, SW1P 1QN (behind Westminster Cathedral, near Victoria tube station). There is Mass at 5.30pm in the Cathedral.

Thank you…

…to Lynne Flatley for the book that she sent some weeks ago, it’s very much appreciated.

Barbies!

We’ve received this letter in response to our Barbie post and felt that we just had to put it up…

Dear Sisters,

We saw on your website that you needed some Barbie clothes. We are not good enough to make them yet, but we are sending some of our Barbie clothes and we hope they will help.

We are glad that sister Andrea is well.

Love and prayers from Maria (age 7) and Margaret-Mary (age 5)

 

Thank you to both girls - that was an incredibly kind and generous thing to do. The clothes are lovely and some of the other little girls we help are going to love them. God bless you both!

Sponsor a Mum for a Month

One of the ways we help some of the women who come to us is to provide a small monthly cash allowance (usually between £60-£100) for the first two years of life, to help pay for things like nappies and toiletries, which are very expensive.

Raising money for this allowance would be a great way to get involved in the work of the Pro-Life Initiative. You or your group for example, could undertake to sponsor a particular mum for the whole or part of the period, or for a month as a one-off .

This would be a great activity for a pro-life group, a school or a parish, or as a sustained commitment for an individual looking to help us in our work. If you’re interested, get in touch and we’ll work out an individual plan to suit you or your group’s needs.

Thank you and God bless.

St Andrews

This evening I’ll be accompanying Fr Roger Nesbitt to St Andrews where he will be giving a talk entitled ‘For me to live is Christ’ at the Canmore Catholic Society. It’s always great to visit Canmore though it’ll be nice to be in the audience this time. I’d imagine that the talk will be well worth listening to - it’ll soon be available on the Society’s podcast page.

Nicola

Nicola is 15 and in the early stages of pregnancy. Though she wants to have her baby, she’s under a great deal of pressure from her family and has an abortion booked for tomorrow. Please pray that she has the strength not to go through with it. Thank you and God bless.