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General Help & Information
Whether it is the first week in your role as Respect Life Coordinator or you have been coordinator for many years, the Respect Life Office is here to help YOU!
- planning in your parish
- meeting planning
- event planning
- presentations on life topics
- networking
- learning more about life issues
Be sure to explore the "Toolkit" link above for lots of great information!
Join us every month for our Respect Life Gatherings throughout the archdiocese.
Join us at the annual Jazzed for Life -- Day for Respect Life Coordinators & Volunteers
Respect Life Coordinators, email the Respect Life Office for your Respect Life Coordinators' HandbookRespect Life Topics Speakers' Bureau...includes speakers for all Respect Life topics
Respect Life Novenas...prayers for all Respect Life topics
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USCCB 2017-2018 Respect Life Program
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USCCB Monthly Help for Your Ministry
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Respect Life Office Prayer Cards
The Respect Life Office now has prayer cards with Prayer for All Life available to those who are sick & homebound in your parish.
Please invite the sick & homebound of your parish to join your Respect Life group...share a prayer card, ask them to pray for the Respect Life work you will be doing.
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Month-by-Month Respect Life Topic Focus
- January -- The Unborn
- February -- Human Trafficking
- March -- Disabilities
- April -- Fertility/Infertility Awareness
- May -- Healing after Abortion
- June — End of Life Issues
- July — Conscience Protection
- August — Mercy behind Bars/Capital Punishment
- September — Stem Cell & Human Cloning Awareness
- October -- USCCB Respect Life Program
- November -- Adoption
- December — Peace on Earth/End Violence
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2018 Respect Life Gatherings
May - Healing after Abortion - hosted by St. Alphonsus in New Orleans
June - End of Life Issues/Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia - hosted by St. Jane de Chantel in Abita Springs
July - Conscience Protection - hosted by Most Holy Trinity in Covington
August - Death Penalty/Mercy behind Bars - hosted by St. Edward the Confessor in Metairie
September - Jazzed for Life - hosted by University of Holy Cross
October - Stem Cell/Human Cloning Awareness - hosted by Our Lady of the Rosary in New Orleans
November - Adoption - hosted by St. Francis Xavier in Metairie
December - No gathering this month
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2019 Respect Life Gatherings
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December - No gathering
If you would like to host a 2019 Respect Life Gathering, please email the Respect Life Office -
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Need help with your parish’s meetings? Are you interested in having another Deanery Respect Life Coordinator gathering? Email the Respect Life Office to get started with planning!
Have you seen new folks in the pews at Sunday Mass? Introduce yourself to them, welcome them to your parish, & let them know about the Respect Life efforts you carry out…make the feel welcome & ask them to be a part of what you do!
Invite the Youth & Young Adults in your parish...they are engerized for life!