40 Days for Life Spring Update – Holy Week
Contact: Mary Clark
Cincinnati Campaign Leader
513-604-9054 / cincy40days@fuse.net
Week of March 29, 2026
HOLY WEEK
Final Update of the Spring/Lenten Campaign
Prayer Hour of Thanksgiving
We held out closing “Prayer Hour of Thanksgiving” on Palm Sunday with a procession from Holy Name Church to Planned Parenthood while praying the Way of the Cross for the Victims of Abortion. Thanks to Deacon Dave Shaffer who lead the prayers and gave his remarks. He noted that as we heard in the reading of the Passion of Christ that morning in St. Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus was crucified at Golgotha, which in Aramaic means “Place of the Skull” because the hill resembles a skull with hollow eye sockets. A long-standing Christian tradition claims the skull of Adam was buried at the base of the hill. Jesus’ blood ran down through the cracks in the stone, thus signifying Christ’s victory over death where it first began.
40 Days for Life 365
Between the two yearly 40 day/24 hour prayer campaigns, we are joining with about 60 other cities who are taking part in 40 Days for Life 365. The goal is to eventually have prayer at Planned Parenthood during all of their office hours. We are beginning by asking for help to cover 8am to 5pm (last hour 4-5pm) on Wednesdays with April 8th being the first day.
You can sign up on our website, 
www.40daysforlife.
Finally, our entire 40 Days for Life core team is very grateful to you for sacrificing your time and convenience through COLD, snow, rain, wind and some beautiful days to take part in covering the 960 hours of our Spring/Lenten campaign.
We wish you a Blessed Holy Week and a Happy Easter Season!
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).
Archdiocese of Cincinnati Respect Life Office
Blessed Sacrament, Ft. Mitchell, KY
Dearborn County, Indiana Catholic Churches (St. Mary, Aurora, IN; St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, IN; St. Teresa, Bright, IN; All Saints, Guilford, IN)
Divine Mercy, Belleview, KY
Divine Mercy parish family (Our Lady of the Visitation; St. Joseph, North Bend; St. Jude, Bridgetown)
Eastside Catholics (St. Cecilia; St. Mary, Hyde Park; Oratory of St. John Vianny, Madisonville)
Immaculate Conception, Norwood
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Burlington, KY
Mary Queen of Heaven Parish Family (St. Margaret Mary, N. College Hill; St. Ann, Groesbeck; St. James the Greater, White Oak; St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
Miami University Students for Life, Oxford
Most Holy Eucharist parish family, Cincinnati (St. Antoninus, St. Martin of Tours, St. Catharine of Siena, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Our Lady of Lourdes)
Old Saint Mary’s/Sacred Heart, Cincinnati
Pregnancy Center Plus
Pregnancy Center West
Queen of Apostles parish family (Our Lady of the Valley, Reading; Our Lady of the Rosary, Greenhills; St. James of the Valley)
St. Anthony, Taylor Mill, KY
St. Antoninus, Cincinnati
St. Catherine of Siena, Ft. Thomas, KY
St. Columban, Loveland
St. Edmund Campion Academy
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (St. Mary Magdalene parish family)
St. Francis De Sales, Lebanon
St. Gertrude, Madeira
St. Gregory the Great Parish Family (IHM, Anderson Twp., Guardian Angels, Mt. Washington; St. John Fisher, Newtown)
St. Henry, Erlanger, KY
St. Ignatius of Loyola, Monfort Heights
St. John the Baptist, Dry Ridge Road
St. John the Evangelist, Deer Park
St. Joseph, Cold Spring, KY
St. Joseph, Crescent Springs, KY
St. Margaret of York, Loveland
St. Mary, Arnheim
St. Mary, Oxford
St. Mary of the Assumption, Alexandria, KY
St. Paul, Florence, KY
St. Paul the Apostle parish family (St. Vincent Ferrer and All Saints), Kenwood
St. Philip, Melbourne, KY
St. Pius X, Edgewood, KY
St. Susanna, Mason
St. Thomas, Ft. Thomas, KY
St. Thomas More (Stella Maris parish family)
St. Timothy, Union, KY
Vineyard Northwest