Your baby is making progress developing all of his/her external features and internal organs. At 40 days his/her brain is functioning. Mother can hear his/her heartbeat now on an ultrasonic stethoscope. His/her milk teeth are present at 6 ½ weeks. It has been reported that a two month old baby can suck his/her thumb. From this moment onward, your spiritually adopted baby grows and refines his/her body. But everything he/she needs to survive at birth is present by the end of the 8th week. Keep on praying for your adopted baby.

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Your spiritually adopted baby has been quite active over the past month. Already your baby is 10,000 times bigger than at conception. Your baby has developed the foundation of his brain, spinal cord and nervous system by the 20th day. His/her heart began to beat on the 21st day and is pumping blood through its own circulatory system. The blood type can be different from his mother’s. Your baby is most vulnerable during the next month of being aborted. Pray that the Lord of Life, who developed the same way in Mary’s womb, might move the heart of this baby’s mother to give him/her the most precious gift of all – the gift of life.

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The Respect Life Committee and the Santa Maria Council of the Knights of Columbus thank you for your wonderful participation in the Day of the Unborn Child events on March 24-25. The number of gifts from the baby shower was very gratifying and allowed us to send some gifts to each of the following: A Baby’s Breath and Mary’s House (both crisis pregnancy centers) and to Catholic Social Services of Montgomery County. In addition 147 parishioners each “spiritually adopted” an unborn baby and pledged to say Bishop Sheen’s prayer for an unborn child every day for 9 months-that is until Dec. 25. Thank you all again.

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Please join the Spiritual Adoption program sponsored by St. Genevieve’s Respect Life Committee. Please bring “Baby Shower” items to Mass THIS WEEKEND and place them in the bassinette (which located in St Genevieve’s narthex) or in the basket in the vestibule at Seven Dolors.

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Please join the Spiritual Adoption program sponsored by St. Genevieve’s Respect Life Committee and Santa Maria Council #263 of the Knights of Columbus and pledge to pray regularly for the safety of an abortion-threatened unborn child during the nine months from the Solemnity of the Annunciation on Monday, March 26.

We are combining the ‘Baby Shower” for the 2011 Spiritual Adoption period, which ran from March 25, 2011 to December 25, 2011, with the kick-off of the upcoming nine-month Spiritual Adoption program for 2012. Please bring “Baby Shower” items to Mass on Saturday, March 24 or Sunday, March 25 and place them in the bassinette which will be located in the Parish Hall at St Genevieve’s or in the basket in the vestibule at Seven Dolors.

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Please join the Spiritual Adoption program sponsored by St. Genevieve’s Respect Life Committee and Santa Maria Council #263 of the Knights of Columbus and pledge to pray regularly for the safety of an abortion-threatened unborn child during the nine months from the Solemnity of the Annunciation on Monday, March 26.

At the end of the nine-month gestational period, a closing “Baby Shower” is held to collect donations for a local pro-life pregnancy center.

We are combining the ‘Baby Shower” for the 2011 Spiritual Adoption period, which ran from March 25, 2011 to December 25, 2011, with the kick-off of the upcoming nine-month Spiritual Adoption program for 2012. Please bring “Baby Shower” items to Mass on Saturday, March 24 or Sunday, March 25 and place them in the bassinette which will be located in the Parish Hall at St Genevieve’s or in the basket in the vestibule at Seven Dolors.

The crisis pregnancy center that will receive your shower gifts this time is A Baby’s Breath. Their literature will be available at the "Baby Shower" www.ababysbreath.org.

They are located in Collegeville and Jeffersonville. Their current needs are:

• wipes
• baby wash
• baby shampoo
• baby lotion
• diaper rash cream
• Gift certificates to purchase new Infant Car seats and new Pack & Plays & Cribs. (The new safety guidelines have decimated their supply of used car seats & cribs.)
• diaper bags
• thermometers
• baby monitors
• toddler’s shoes for boys & girls

Pledge slips to hang on the Tree of Life will be available in the Parish Hall and the vestibule at Seven Dolors.

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“Lord, you created man and women in your image and endowed them with your dignity. You call each of us to be agents of your justice and mercy in the world. Help us to build a culture of life – a culture that holds all human life in reverence, from the unborn child and the immigrant, to the poor, the homeless, the infirm and the elderly. Give us the character to live the Gospel not just with our words, but with our hearts and our actions. Make us quick to forgive each other, quick to listen to each other and eager to serve those who are suffering and in need. And finally Lord, in all things, fill us with the courage to follow St. Paul when he urges us to ‘speak the truth in love.’ We ask this trusting in your goodness and in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Amen.”

-Archbishop Charles Chaput

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There are many parishioners who would like to go to DC for the March For Life but family or job obligations prevent them from doing so. On Monday January 23 at 7:00pm the Parish is holding a Holy Hour to enable people who cannot attend the March itself to show solidarity with Archbishop Chaput and all of the marchers. You are invited to attend and witness for Christ and show your opposition to the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade which legalized permissive abortions and drastically restricted the ability of citizens to vote on this issue.

No Rosary on Tuesday night because group will be meeting for the “March for Life” rosary which will be said on Monday.

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There are many parishioners who would like to go to DC for the March For Life but family or job obligations prevent them from doing so. On Monday January 23 at 7:00pm the Parish is holding a Holy Hour to enable people who cannot attend the March itself to show solidarity with Archbishop Chaput and all of the marchers. You are invited to attend and witness for Christ and show your opposition to the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade which legalized permissive abortions and drastically restricted the ability of citizens to vote on this issue.

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You can make the difference – sign up today

Thousands of people from across the country converge on Washington, D.C. in a show of solidarity to pray for an end to legalized abortion in our country. We encourage you to participate in this event. More now than ever your witness is needed. Please sign up today and let Washington hear your voice!

The bus will leave IHM parking lot at 7:00 AM and will return approximately between 8 – 9 PM. There will be a 10:00 AM Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The bus fee is $10.00 and bring $4.50 (exact change- the tickets will not be sold on the bus)for Metro tickets from the Shrine to Washington and return. Bring a brown bag lunch. Dinner is available at the Shrine. Come as a family, bring a friend. To sign up call Ann Marie Beaver 215-483-8204.

“A nation which kills its young has no future.”
Pope John Paul II
-Respect Life Committee

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January 22 marks the 39th anniversary of one of the most destructive Supreme Court decisions in American history, Roe v. Wade. By legalizing permissive abortion and drastically limiting voters’ ability to restrict it in any way, Roe v. Wade set the foundations for an abortion industry that has wounded countless women and resulted in the killing of more than 53 million unborn children.

Please join Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM.cap., if possible in Washington, DC on Monday January 23, 2012 at the annual March for Life. On that he will celebrate Mass for the faithful of the Archdiocese at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington at 10:00 a.m.

Many of you have family and job obligations and would not be able to attend this most important event. But you can join them in spirit through your prayer and fasting. January 23rd has been designated a Particular Day of Prayer and Penance. There will be a Holy Hour at St. Genevieve on Monday, January 23rd for those who cannot attend the March but wish to pray for life.

May Mary, the mother of Jesus guide our hearts and minds as we give witness to the sanctity of all human life, especially the most vulnerable.

If you are interested in going to the March call the Diocesan Respect Life Office at 215-587-3703 for more information.

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