St. Thomas the Apostle
Mass Schedule
Mon. - Sat. 8 AM
Saturday 5 PM
Sunday 8 & 11 AM
Holyday Masses
Day Before 5:30 PM
Holyday 8 AM
Confessions
Sat. 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Adoration Chapel
Mon. - Fri.
9 AM - 11 PM
Blessing of expectant mothers and families after Mass on the 1st Sunday of each month.
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| VIDEO - Church on Abortion |  Fr. John Croapi |
The Pro-Life memorial located on the walkway to the Adoration Chapel. It is dedicated to all the unborn children who have given the ultimate sacrifice.
Without the right to life there are no other rights.
Without the freedom to be born there are no other freedoms.
Pray about it.
Blessing of Expectant Families
First weekend of the month after all Masses
March for Life
St. Thomas the Apostle Pro-Life group sponsors a bus trip to Washington for the March for Life every year. The bus leaves our parking area the evening before the March and returns late the next day. Contact the Parish Center for more details.
Mother Teresa and Abortion When Mother Teresa came to the United States in 1994 she said: "If we accepted that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems ... any country that accepts abortion is not teaching people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."
The Catholic Church and involved Catholics were among the first to speak out against the killing that abortion is. In our individual circumstances, all Catholics should strive to protect innocent life by prayer, action, thoughtful voting, or assisting pro-life groups. The Pope has entrusted the Church's effort and our individual efforts in this regard to the Blessed Mother in this prayer
"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.... Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty and love to the people of our time." The Gospel of Life, No 105.
Rachel's Vineyard is a ministry in the Diocese of Rochester that helps women and men whose lives have been impacted by abortion. This is a weekend retreat that provides an opportunity for emotional and spiritual healing. If you or someone you love has had an abortion, please come to the retreat and experience God's love, forgiveness, and mercy. For more information call (888) 972-2435. Everything will be confidential.
From contraception to abortion - a time line
1859- The American Medical Association condemns the practice of abortion.
1860s - This decade marks the beginning of a social and political birth control movement.
1873 - The Comstock Law is passed. The Comstock Law constituted a federal ban on the manufacture, sale or possession of contraceptives and advertisements for them.
1875 - Every state in the United States has adopted laws banning abortion.
1916 - Margaret Sanger forms the Birth Control League (now called Planned Parenthood) to promote contraception and abortion, and she begins her push for churches to accept contraception as morally licit. 1973
1920 -At the Lambeth Conference, Anglican church leaders acknowledge the contraception debate, but respond, "We utter an emphatic warning against the use of unnatural means for the avoidance of conception..."
1930 - At the Lambeth Conference, birth control is now considered morally acceptable under certain circumstances by Protestant churches. This concession constitutes a major victory for Sanger and the culture of death.
1961 - The National Protestant Council of Churches gives its backing to unnatural forms of birth control..
1965 - Griswald v. Connecticut sounds the death knell for all anti-contraception legislation in the U.S. The Supreme Court invents the so-called "right to privacy" to shield the marital bedroom and contraceptives from the reach of legislation.
1967 - Colorado becomes the first state to allow abortion in the cases of rape, incest or threat to the mother's life.
1970 - Fourteen states allow abortion in certain circumstances.
1972 - Eisenstadt v. Baird - The Supreme Court extends the same invented right of privacy from Griswald to unmarried individuals desiring to use contraception.
1973 - Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion on demand using the "right to privacy" from Griswald. The decision strikes down all state laws that had placed restrictions on abortion saying no state had the authority to legislate against abortion for any reason.
1973 - Doe v. Bolton defines the health-of-the-mother exception in ambiguous terms and further secures the right to abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy.
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From the moment of conception, the awesome complexity of a new human life unfolds. - Life is a Miracle - Respect Life Program
Despite what our culture tries to tell us, growing old is an important part of life. And those who have the opportunity to grow old are not cursed, but are blessed with abundance of life! - Cardinal Bevilacqua
Every human being shares the same origin, nature and destiny, but our features and physiques, skills, interests, tastes and habits are astonishingly diverse. - Life is a Miracle - Respect Life Program
In protecting the vulnerable and the weak, the imperfect and the unwanted, you are affirming a culture of life. - President George W. Bush
Cloning is not wrong because cloned human beings lack human dignity - it is wrong because they have human dignity, and deserve to come into the world in ways that respect this dignity. Each child has a right to be conceived and born as the fruit of a loving union between husband and wife, to be loved and accepted as a new and distinct individual. - Richard Doerflinger
