"Something Beautiful for Mary!"
A big thank you to all who participated in the Respect Life Living Rosary!  Mother Mary was pleased to run with it and make it beautiful. It was especially wonderful to hear all the voices from our different communities and ministries praying together, even children.  The reverence in placing the roses in the vases was powerful.  This speaks to a hunger and need for more events of this kind.  We hope to make this an annual event!

Thank you for taking the time out of your Sunday afternoon and giving it to Mary.
Jane Walker, Sandy Mazza, Karen Lamons, Lisa Thomas, Rose Carroll, George Brown, Ester Cuenco, Biviane Ochoa, Normita Fenn, Joy Maloles Keehn, Cynthia Borcena, Jeanie Dewhurst

Baby Items Drive Thank You 
Bishop Michael Barber, along with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urgently called us to support the nation-wide, year long campaign to help women in unwanted and crisis pregnancies, Walking with Moms in Need - A Year of Service.  Thank you to all those who helped us support Birthright of Concord, and the Gabriel Project of Concord with your generous donations of baby items. 
May God bless you for helping these moms to choose an alternative to abortion.

O Mary,
bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living,
to you do we entrust the cause of life. 
Look down, O Mother,
upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born,
upon the poor whose lives are made difficult,
upon men and women who are victims of brutal violence,
upon those on death row,
upon the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy.

Obtain for them the grace to build,
together with all people of good will,
a civilization of truth and love and a culture of life,
to the praise and glory of God,
the Creator and Author of Life.

Adapted from the Prayer of John Paul II, for the protection of life in all stages.

Please join us for a Respect Life Rosary on the second Sunday of each month.  We meet after 9am Mass, at the Grotto to the Unborn in the church garden behind the church.   For more information please contact Jane Walker at (925) 934-2129.

Reflection: Live the Gospel of Life

Serving Moms in Need

Oakland Diocese Respect Life Resources

U.S. Bishops Pro-Life Activities