40 Days for Life Fall Update – Week Three
Contact: Mary Clark
Cincinnati Campaign Leader
513-604-9054/cincy40days@fuse.net
October 10, 2025
Weekly Update – Week Three
Above and Beyond, Number of Workers, Challenge & Midpoint
I tell people all the time that we have wonderful, generous pro-life people in the tri-state area. We are blessed with stalwart prayer warriors who year after year commit to coming to the sidewalk to be the hands and feet of Christ. They publicly witness to the callousness of our laws towards the preborn and the devastation that brings to their families. This is thanks in large part to our church respect life coordinators, many of whom have continued for years reaching out to their veterans pray-ers as well as encouraging new participation.
God bless also the individuals who come to pray on their own or with prayer partners. Some have expressed their desire to get their churches involved also. Say a prayer that their church leadership will eventually encourage and support congregational participation.
It’s also so heartening and humbling when parish leaders who make a commitment to sign up volunteers see that as their parish day approaches there will be coverage gaps so they go above and beyond by filling in a second prayer hour or more. You know who you are and so does God!
As I’ve prayed during the early daytime coverage hours (7-8am or 8-9am), I have been astonished at the number of workers who drive or walk in to Planned Parenthood. One day I counted 17 workers walk in the gates (not enough parking space in their lot for them) and 16 cars. If we could get our priests and pastors to come just once at these hours to witness this, I think it might convict them of the need to encourage their parishioners to join us on the sidewalk.
At our Kick-Off we challenged everyone, those at the site and those who couldn’t make it, to “step up our prayer effort” by praying with a more focused intention, or fasting to strengthen our prayers or perhaps calling on a Saint to intercede. So for this update, we’re tossing out two ideas:
1) So, since it is the month of the Rosary have you added an emphasis on it?
2) USCCB has a beautiful prayer to “St. Joseph, Defender of Life”! Might you add it to your daily meditation and prayer time?
A Prayer to St. Joseph, Defender of Life – Dearest St. Joseph, at the word of an angel, you lovingly took Mary into your home. As God’s humble servant, you guided the Holy Family on the road to Bethlehem, welcomed Jesus as your own son in the shelter of a manger, and fled far from your homeland for the safety of both Mother and Child. We praise God that as their faithful protector, you never hesitated to sacrifice for those entrusted to you. May your example inspire us also to welcome, cherish, and safeguard God’s most precious gift of life. Help us to faithfully commit ourselves to the service and defense of human life —especially where it is vulnerable or threatened. Obtain for us the grace to do the will of God in all things. Amen.
But we’re also asking, how have you challenged yourself to enhance your prayers for the unborn? We’d love to hear from you! so please if you’re answering our challenge tell us what effort have you added? We’d love to hear from you whether is walking at PP or praying from home! Please email me! Have a blest and challenging week (in a good way)!
Tonight – Friday, October 10, from 7 to 8pm at Planned Parenthood, we will hold a group prayer hour designated as the Midpoint Prayer Hour. We will be praying for the continued success of the campaign as we close in on Day 20. We thank God for allowing us to be His hands and feet in bringing about a Culture of Life in our area, state and country.
Continue to go to www.40daysforlife.com/cincinnati and check the calendar to see what hours are still in need of coverage through the rest of the campaign.
Known churches and group affiliations of our participants – Please let me know if your affiliation is not listed (even if you are coming as an individual and not with a church/group).
All Saints, Guilford, IN (Dearborn County Catholic Parishes)
All Saints, Kenwood (St. Paul the Apostle Family)
Archdiocese of Cincinnati Respect Life Office
Blessed Sacrament, Ft. Mitchell, KY
St. Cecilia, Oakley (Eastside Catholic)
Good Shepherd, Montgomery
Guardian Angels, Mt. Washington (St. Gregory the Great Family)
Helpers of God’s Precious Infants (Prolife Mass & Rosary Procession – 1st, 3rd, & 4th Sat.)
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Anderson Twp. (St. Gregory the Great Family)
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Burlington, KY
Mary Queen of Heaven, Erlanger, KY
Mary’s Mantle (Prolife Mass & Rosary Procession – 2nd Sat.)
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West
Old St. Mary’s/Sacred Heart, Cincinnati
Our Lady of Lourdes (Most Holy Eucharist Family)
Our Lady of the Visitation (Divine Mercy Family)
Pregnancy Center Plus
Queen of Apostles Family (Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of the Valley, St. James of the Valley)
St. Aloysius Gonzaga (Most Holy Eucharist Family)
St. Andrew, Milford (St. Mary Magdalene Family)
St. Ann, Groesbeck (Mary Queen of Heaven Family)
St. Anthony, Taylor Mill, KY
St. Antoninus (Most Holy Eucharist Family)
St. Barbara, Erlanger, KY
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Mary Queen of Heaven Family)
St. Catharine of Siena (Most Holy Eucharist Family)
St. Catherine of Siena, Ft. Thomas, KY
St. Columban, Loveland
St. Edmund Campion Academy
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Milford (St. Mary Magdalene Family)
St. Gertrude, Madeira
St. Henry, Erlanger, KY
St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, Monfort Heights
St. James the Greater (Mary Queen of Heaven Family)
St. John Fisher, Newtown (St. Gregory the Great Family)
St. John the Baptist, Dry Ridge Rd., Colerain Twp.
St. John the Evangelist, Deer Park
St. Joseph, Cold Spring, KY
St. Joseph, Crescent Springs, KY
St. Joseph, North Bend (Divine Mercy Family)
St. Jude, Bridgetown (Divine Mercy Family)
St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, IN (Dearborn County Catholic Parishes)
St. Margaret Mary, N. College Hill (Mary Queen of Heaven Family)
St. Margaret of York, Loveland
St. Martin of Tours (Most Holy Eucharist Family)
St. Mary of the Assumption, Alexandria, KY
St. Mary, Aurora, IN (Dearborn County Catholic Parishes)
St. Mary, Hyde Park (Eastside Catholic)
St. Patrick, Taylor Mill, KY
St. Paul, Florence, KY
St. Paul the Apostle Family of Parishes (St. Vincent Ferrer, All Saints, Kenwood)
St. Philip, Melbourne, KY
St. Philip the Apostle, Morrow
St. Pius X, Edgewood, KY
St. Susanna, Mason
St. Teresa, Bright, IN (Dearborn County Catholic Parishes)
St. Thomas More, Withamsville (Stella Maris Family)
St. Thomas, Ft. Thomas, KY
St. Timothy, Union, KY
St. Veronica (St. Mary Magdalene family)
St. Vincent Ferrer, Kenwood (St. Paul the Apostle Family)
The Oratory of St. John Vianney, Madisonville (Eastside Catholic)