40 Days for Life and the Gospel of Life Our 40 Days for Life Prayer Vigil across the road from the Hardgate Road entrance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital will draw to a close on
Saturday evening 24th March with a
silent candle lit hour from 7pm till 8pm. Candles will be provided. The
Closing Event for our 40 Days for LifeCampaign in support of a Culture of Life here in Scotland and around the world
will take place the following day ,
Palm Sunday, 25th March in George Square at 3pm when Robert Colquhoun International Director of 40 Days for Life will speak to the assembled gathering.
Please come along and support these events in this 50th anniversary year of the implementation of the Abortion Act in the UK. As Catholics we are called by God to defend life, see excerpt from para 2 of the Gospel of Life written by St Pope John Paul 11 below:
Gospel of Life: The incomparable worth of the human person
2. Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God ….
….. life on earth is not an "ultimate" but a "penultimate" reality; even so, it remains a sacred reality entrusted to us, to be preserved with a sense of responsibility and brought to perfection in love and in the gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters....
The Church knows that this Gospel of life, which she has received from her Lord,
1 has a profound and persuasive echo in the heart of every person- believer and non-believer alike- because it marvellously fulfils all the heart's expectations while infinitely surpassing them. Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties, every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can, by the light of reason and the hidden action of grace, come to recognize in the natural law written in the heart (cf. Rom 2:14-15) the sacred value of human life from its very beginning until its end, and can affirm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree. Upon the recognition of this right, every human community and the political community itself are founded.
In a special way, believers in Christ
must defend and promote this right….