Archive for January, 2014
Women Need Support not Abortion
**taken from IonaInstitute** Women seeking abortions in the UK are six times more likely to have experienced domestic abuse than women seeking antenatal care, suggests a new study published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The study was carried out on a sample of 274 women looking for an abortion and 233 women seeking […]
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The Gift of Life
Our life is not an invention. It is a gift from God. He had the courage to trust in us so much that he placed the gift of life, the gift of existence, into our hands life, existence, and gave us the necessary tools to live it well. Perhaps we never considered life as […]
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Listen to the Beat!
Every time I give a talk on the methods of abortion the utter barbarity of our apparantly civilised world is brought home to me when I describe a D&C abortion where the unborn baby is cut into pieces and extracted from the womb. The reality of it is given a face in this moving video […]
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Over the last weekend, the US prolife movement demonstrated another magnificant show of support for unborn babies and their mothers, through the March for Life in Washington. For us in Britain it can help to encourage us; spur us on to see what level of support can be achieved to change the law on abortion. […]
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When a Child is given..
“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!” ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living
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The Baby Box
This is a moving story about a man trying to do something practical about unwanted babies in South Korea. Of course he has his critics, but if everyone did one small or large action to help the prolife movement in whatever way they could the world would be a more welcoming place for babies who […]
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Fiddlers Rally
LIFE is holding a Fiddlers Rally in Glasgow City Chambers on February 14 2014 at 7.30pm. Tickets £10.00 with light refreshments on sale. For tickets; Robert Graham 01505 335571 or on sale at the door.
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Prolife Mass
Advance notice of next month’s prolife mass. The date for your diary is 19th February 2014. Holy Hour starts at 6pm, followed by the rosary at 7pm, with holy mass at 7pm celebrated this month by Fr Andrew Garden. As usual it is all held in Our Lady of Consolation, Govanhill, Glasgow. Tea & coffee […]
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St Vincent
Vincent, a deacon in Saragossa, died a martyr in Valencia, Spain, with his bishop Valerius, after having undergone torture c. AD 304. Like Saint Lawrence of Rome, Vincent offered a perfect model of service in the Church. As he was the bishop’s minister in offering sacrifice and in governing the community, this deacon also accompanied […]
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St Agnes
Almost nothing is known of this saint except that she was very young—12 or 13—when she was martyred in the last half of the third century. Various modes of death have been suggested—beheading, burning, strangling. Legend has it that Agnes was a beautiful girl whom many young men wanted to marry. Among those she refused, […]
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