By Brian Jenkins (Quebec Life Coalition) – Photo: goodluz/Adobe Stock
Sherbrooke – I've travelled to this eastern township community to bring the pro-life message for the next forty-days.
This is my fourth foray, having first come here in the fall of 2020 and every fall since and always for forty days.
The principal reason for coming to Sherbrooke is to coordinate the 40-day prayer vigil for the end of abortion. This is a twelve-hour daily activity, from 7am to 7pm, for forty consecutive days. While praying and offering love and support to abortion-bound mothers near one of the two local abortion facilities, those who accompany me also offer an educational facet to men and women who stop to exchange with us on the topic of abortion.
In addition, I have gathered locals over the past years to form Life Chains. This is a one-hour activity held on the first Sunday of October every year, from 2pm to 3pm. The next Life Chain is set for Sunday, October 6, 2024, and so far, 21 separate chains are getting ready to voice support in the public right of way in the province for the protection of unborn life.
Over the years, I have also attended local prayer groups as a participant. Inevitably at these, I get to share and promulgate the pro-life message – that human life begins at the moment of fertilization and demands the same rights as every other human being, especially the right to life.
All this could not be done without the support of many dedicated people in this community that welcomed me, lending a helping hand with various tasks including room and board.
Over the four years, I have been billeted at three separate homes. This time around I have been welcomed by a mother of two and grandmother of one. We five are fortunate to each have our own room and two bathrooms to share amongst us all.
Each host has given me a glimpse of the human experience, of joy and sorrow. The common thread in each is one of our faith journeys, each household deeply committed to following our Lord in his passion, death, and eventual resurrection and eternal life.
Instilled by her maternal grandmother, the faith of my current host has permitted her to endure civil war, the violent deaths of her husband, and son and daughter, the uprootedness of the life of a refuge, and health concerns of her children.
Today, she perseveres and has welcomed me into her home.
With such a blessing, I able to carry on with the pro-life ministry to touch convert hardened hearts that our society does so well to stultify.
I thank you all for your support and prayers.
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