NATIONAL BLACK CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE FOR LIFE
WITNESSING THE GOSPEL OF LOVE AND THE GOSPEL OF LIFE IN OUR COMMUNITY
c/o St. Clare Friary
440 West 36th Street New York, N.Y. 10018-6326
Voice: 212.868.1847
email: tnbcalife@aol.com

 News Release           August 16,  2010                        News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

2010 National Black Catholic Vigil for Life

October 2, 2010

13^th Annual National Black Catholic Vigil for life 2010
 

Saturday October 2, 2010 (First Saturday) marks the 13^th year that the
National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life has sponsored the “National Black Catholic Vigil for Life” on the eve of Respect Life Sunday. The Vigil for Life affords us as African American and African Catholics an opportunity to gather in our various Archdioceses/Dioceses to pray for an
end to abortion and all acts of violence that destroys the dignity of human life. 
The National Black Catholic Vigil for Life is also our prayer-preparation time for the
Eucharistic Sacrifice on Respect Life Sunday, stated Father James E. Goode, OFM,
President of the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life.

Respect Life Sunday
 

THE MEASURE OF LOVE IS TO LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE is the theme for October 3, 2010 Respect Life Sunday presented by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops:
Pro-Life Activities Office.
 

Every human being, at every stage and condition, is willed and loved by God. For this reason, every human life is sacred. Because we are created in the image of God, who is Love, our identity and our vocation is to love.
Pope Benedict XVI has called this “the key to our entire existence.”
(USCCB: Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities 2010)
 

   For more information visit:
www. usccb.org/prolife

Archdiocese of New York

Office of Black Ministry – Brother Tyrone A. Davis, CFC, JD
Executive Director
&
The National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life

If you are in the New York area we cordially invite you to join us at
The Lady’s Chapel at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 11: A.M.,
 as we will observe the 13^th Annual National Black Catholic Vigil for Life. 
Our closing prayers will be at the crypt of our
Venerable Pierre Toussaint, a saintly man for life and our
Founding Supporter John Cardinal O’Connor, a Prophetic Shepherd for Life.

www.blackcatholicsforlife.org  

 

The National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life was inaugurated in the fall of 1997, with the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus and the
Franciscan Solid Ground Ministry as sponsors and with the support of the late John Cardinal O'Connor, then Archbishop of New York and the Archdiocesan Office of Black Ministry - Brother Tyrone A. Davis, CFC, Executive Director.  Since then, NBCAL Affiliates
have been established throughout the United States.