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
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 News Release           August 24, 2012                   News Release


 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

2012 National Black Catholic Vigil for Life

 

October 6, 2012

 

15th Annual National Black Catholic Vigil for Life 2012
 

Saturday October 6, 2012 (First Saturday) marks the 15th 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/Neighborhoods 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
 

Faith opens our eyes to human life in all its grandeur and beauty is the theme for
October 7, 2012 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.”

 

For more information on Respect Life Sunday go to:

  Respect Life Program
 

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.

 

 

NBCAL Board of Consultants

 

Most Rev. J. Terry Steib, S.V.D., DD Episcopal Advisor,
 Rev. Fr. James E. Goode, OFM, Ph.D President - NBCAL, Dr. Beverly A. Carroll (USCCB:SCDC),
 Rev. Fr. Fred J. Briers. CR (NBCCC), Ms. Therese Wilson Favors, (NABCA), Very Rev. Glenn D. Parker, CSsR (NBCCC),
Supreme Knight Fredron DeKarlos Blackmon (KPC), Supreme Lady Vertella A. Kenion (KPCLA),
Deacon Paul Richardson  Pres.(NAAACD), Rev. Monsignor Mauricio West, V.G. (NBCCC),  
Deacon Arthur L. Miller, Pres. NABCA (Ex-officio), Sister Roberta Fulton, SSMN, Pres. NBSC (Ex-officio),
Fr.  Anthony Bozeman, SSJ, Pres. NBCCC (Ex-officio)

Partnership: 

 

The Three Historical Black Catholic Communities of Religious Women:

 

The Oblate Sisters of Divine Providence, (Baltimore, MD) established in 1829

The Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, LA) established in 1842

The  Franciscan Handmaids of Mary (Savannah, GA) established in 1915


 
National Black Catholic Congress


Xavier University,

            Institute for Black Catholic Studies