40 Days for Life begins next week!

From Pro-Life Wisconsin. If you're in the Madison area, don't miss the kickoff (see final item.)

The fall 40 Days for Life campaign officially begins Wednesday, September 28. PLW and our affiliates will once again be organizing and participating in 40 Days for Life, which will be observed this fall in Appleton, Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, Wausau and across the border in Rockford, Ill.

There have now been eight coordinated 40 Days for Life campaigns since 2007, mobilizing people of faith and conscience in 337 cities across all 50 of the United States plus communities in Canada, Australia, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Denmark, Georgia, Armenia and Belize.

During these unified efforts, participants witnessed countless blessings from God:

- 1,332 individual campaigns have taken place in 387 cities;

- More than 400,000 have joined together in an historic display of unity to pray and fast for an end to abortion;

- More than 13,000 church congregations have participated in the 40 Days for Life campaig

ns;

- Reports document 4,313 lives that have been spared from abortion — and those are just the ones we know about;

- 53 abortion workers have quit their jobs and walked away from the abortion industry;

- 14 abortion facilities completely shut down following local 40 Days for Life campaigns.

To get involved, call PLW toll-free at (877) 463-7945 or email info@prolifewisconsin.org.

Madison's 40 Days for Life Kickoff will be held Tuesday, September 27 at St. Peter Church in Madison (5001 N. Sherman Avenue). We'll gather between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., and the program starts at 6 sharp. It will be a potluck dinner (main course will be provided).

Dr. Nancy Fredericks will be the guest speaker. Dr. Fredricks is the whistleblower who exposed the University of Wisconsin's secret plans to perform late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center, leading to the massive, successful statewide pro-life uprising that led to the cancellation of those plans and the hasty departure of the abortionist. Without her courageous stance, the MSC would likely be performing late-term abortions. Still, Dr. Fredericks has graciously thanked Vigil for Life, Pro-Life Wisconsin and the 40 Days for Life effort for their roles in stopping the treacherous plan. Come join us for her first ever public speaking engagement on the Madison Surgery Center saga.

Photo: The line of pro-aborts screaming at pro-lifers praying during a Madison Surgery Center rally on the UW campus on February 6, 2010.

Our Lady of La Salette, ora pro nobis!

Our Lady of La Salette, London, UK

Mélanie and Maximin, the two children privileged to see Mary in 1846, came from the town of Corps near Grenoble, in a poor part of south-eastern France. Maximin Giraud was eleven years old at the time and Mélanie Calvat fourteen. On Saturday 19 September, they were looking after their employer's cattle, high up on the pasture above La Salette, a village near Corps, when they saw a wonderful apparition of Mary.

A globe of light opened to reveal a resplendent woman seated on a stone with her head in her hands. The children later described her as very tall and beautiful, wearing a long, white, pearl studded, sleeved dress, and a white shawl, with some sort of tiara or crown on her head. Hanging from her neck was a large crucifix adorned with a small hammer and pincers, with a brilliantly shining figure of Christ on it. The whole effect was as if she was made of light.

Speaking tearfully she told them that unless people repented she would be forced to let go the arm of her son because it had become so heavy. Mary went on to complain that she had to pray ceaselessly to her son for them, but the people still worked on Sundays and blasphemed. She also spoke of coming punishments for these sins, including crop blights and famine. She confided a secret to each of the children, which they were not to divulge, although eventually these secrets were made known to Pope Pius IX

Finally she asked the children to spread her message before disappearing. When the children returned home they told their story, an account of which was taken down in writing the next day. They faced much opposition in making known Mary's message, but they maintained their story with resolution. The local Bishop too faced quite a degree of opposition in investigating the apparition, and it was only after four years, and having set up two commissions of enquiry, that Mgr de Bruillard, as bishop of Grenoble, approved of devotion to Our Lady of Salette, in the following terms.

"We declare that the apparition of the Blessed Virgin to two shepherds, on September 19, 1846, on a mountain in the Alps in the parish of La Salette, bears in itself all the marks of truth and that the faithful are justified in believing without question in its truth. And so, to mark our lively gratitude to God and the glorious Virgin Mary, we authorise the cult of Our Lady of La Salette."

Theotokos

National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette
Confradia De la Inmaculada Concepcion Intramuros Grand Marian Procession
Intramuros, Manila