The Respect Life Committee prays and works to increase an awareness and respect for all human life from conception to natural death.

Community engagement, advocacy, and prayer are used to strengthen the culture of life among the community of Saint Bridget, the greater Richmond area, and beyond.

Respect Life Resources

Diocese of Richmond- Please see the messasge from Bishop Knestout and information from the Diocese through this link.

Commonwealth Catholic Charities-Pregnancy & Adoption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ate_yVVDjA

Virginia Catholic Conference-Advocacy: https://vacatholic.org/resources/

Respect Life Events

August 24th- 4 pm- Murphy Room- Walking with Moms Meeting

September 12th- Richmond is for Life Breakfast- Staples Mill Baptist Church- spots are limited! RSVP through the link

September 27th- Meet with Jeff Caruso from the Virginia Catholic Conference after all Masses to discuss the Constitutional Amendments on the ballot in November

Pro Life Resources

	Title
	Healing Within Marriage After Abortion	Download
	Saint Bridget Respect Life Committee: Mission Statement	Download

Pro Life Links and Organizations

Virginia Society for Human Life ...
Our role is to educate and inform Virginians on life issues and to lead the way in actions to promote the sanctity of life through legislative change.
Silent No More ...
Silent No More Awareness is a Campaign whereby Christians make the public aware of the devastation abortion brings to women and men. The campaign seeks to expose and heal the secrecy and silence surrounding the emotional and physical pain of abortion.
Sidewalk Advocates for Life ...
Our mission is to train, equip, and support local communities across the United States and the world in “sidewalk advocacy”: to be the hands and feet of Christ, offering loving, life-affirming alternatives to all present at the abortion center, thereby eliminating demand and ending abortion.
Commonwealth Catholic Charities ...
For over 90 years, Commonwealth Catholic Charities has worked to ease human suffering and restore, hope, dignity, and opportunity for Virginians. We provide help to families seeking food and shelter. We offer compassion to seniors and those with disabilities who are isolated and alone. We provide children and teens with loving foster homes. We provide assistance to refugee families fleeing persecution. The mission of Commonwealth Catholic Charities is to provide quality, compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith. The vision of Commonwealth Catholic Charities is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through faith and service.
Virginia Catholic Conference ...
The Virginia Catholic Conference is the public policy advocacy organization representing Virginia's two Catholic Bishops, Francis DiLorenzo, Diocese of Richmond, and Paul Loverde, Diocese of Arlington, and their dioceses in matters before the Virginia General Assembly, the U.S. Congress, and the state and federal administrations and their agencies
The Center for Marriage, Family, and Life ...
Provides access to important resources to all individuals within the Diocesan footprint who seek the physical, spiritual and emotional support to manage through various life transitions and stages. A particular emphasis is placed on providing tools to strengthen and enrich Catholic and interfaith marriages, various family life situations, and to call particular attention to a range of issues pertaining to the dignity of human life.
Dignitas - Pro Life Healthcare
East End Pregnancy Resource Center ...
Enabling Every Woman To Choose Life for the Child in her Womb…. We do this by encouraging our clients to love themselves and their children, educating our clients to live productive lives, and empowering our clients to choose life with the confidence that their lives and their children’s lives have intrinsic value.
Pregnancy Resource Ctr. of Metro Richmond ...
Provides critical information and support for women who are pregnant and considering what options are available.
Rachels Vineyard: Help After Abortion ...
To help women and men who are suffering from the devastating impact of a pregnancy loss, including the loss of a child by abortion. It can form a hole in one's heart, a hole so deep that sometimes it seems nothing can fill the emptiness.
USCCB: Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities ...
The United States College of Catholic Bishops Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities: A Campaign in Support of Life to put forth "a precise and vigorous reaffirmation of the value of human life and its inviolability, and at the same time a pressing appeal addressed to each and every person, in the name of God: respect, protect, love and serve life, every human life" (The Gospel of Life, no. 5).