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• Year of Mercy
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1. Prayer!

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3. Explore the TOOLKIT & find the topic(s) that sparks your passion

4. If your parish doesn't have a Respect Life Coordinator, consider speaking to your pastor 

5. Contact the Respect Life Office for assistance... 504-286-1119 or email

From Evangelium Vitae (96):

"The first and fundamental step towards this cultural transformation consists in forming consciences with regard to the incomparable and inviolable worth of every human life. It is of the greatest importance to re-establish the essential connection between life and freedom. These are inseparable goods: where one is violated, the other also ends up being violated. There is no true freedom where life is not welcomed and loved; and there is no fullness of life except in freedom."

First, we recognize our own call to holiness…we are called to be saints, each & every one of us, and so out of this calling, building a culture of life starts with each of us.  We must cultivate our own relationship with God in a sacramental life & a life of prayer — we must know Him before we can love Him & serve Him.  Then, we recall that every single human being is made from Love, by Love, out of Love — every single human being is wanted & loved by God, & He desires to spend eternity with each one  — all of us!  And we are called to imitate Christ.  A genuine life in Christ leads others to Him & to their own holiness.  Living that love fulfills the greatest commandment — "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.  The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Mt. 22:37-39).