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           September 30, 2014      News Release


 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
 

This October, we invite you to join us in Faith and Prayer
as we unite in the
“Respect Life Month” campaign.
We ask that you pray for the end of violence during the “Prayer of the Faithful” in your parish community, using the
"National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life Prayer for Life" 
Together we will bring an end to abortion and all violence not just
in our communities but around the world.
Join Sister M. Callista Robinson, OSF, President of the National Black Sisters’ Conference and
Father Kenneth Taylor, President of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus
along with the
National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life Prayer,
as we unite in hope during Respect Life Month.

National Black Catholic
Apostolate for Life
Prayer for Life

God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,
gaze upon our African American community as we pray for
an end to violence and a halt to abortion among us.
Touch our minds and hearts, and fix them on life and love.
Turn us to seek the wisdom of our ancestors.

Jesus the Giver of Life, make us a People for Life.

Bless us, so that we may pass on a legacy of your life 
and grace. Strengthen us to sacrifice ourselves for each other. 
Shower us with your grace and mercy so that we may be sources
of light and hope to those less fortunate among us.

Jesus the Giver of Life, make us a People for Life.

Bless those who are sick, broken, lonely and forgotten.
Bring us all to your everlasting arms at the end of our 
 journey with a clean heart, so that we may rest in praise and
thanksgiving, joined to all who have gone before us. 
We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen! Amen! Hallelujah! Amen!

Jesus the Giver of Life, make us a People for Life.


Composed by James Paul Newson
Therese Wilson Favors & Fr. Glenn D. Parker, CSsR

Imprimatur: J. Terry Steib, SVD, Bishop of Memphis in
Tennessee, May 14, 2007


National Black Catholic Apostolate 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.

 

 

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
(Former, USCB:SAAC, NBCAL Senior Advisor),
 Rev. Monsignor Mauricio West, V.G. (NBCCC), Very Rev. Glenn D. Parker, CSsR (NBCCC),
Ms. Donna Toliver Grimes, (USCCB-SCDC)A.D. AAA,
Sr. M. Callista Robinson, OSF, Pres.NBSC,
Fr. Kenneth Taylor, Pres.NBCCC, Deacon Arthur L. Miller, Pres. NABCA (Ex-officio),
Deacon Joseph Connor,  Pres.(NAAACD),  Rev. Fr. Fred J. Briers. CR (NBCCC),
 Ms. Therese Wilson Favors, (NABCA), Supreme Knight
Fredron DeKarlos Blackmon (KPC),
Supreme Lady Vertella A. Kenion
 (KPCLA),

Partnership: 


 
National Black Catholic Congress
Valerie E. Washington, Exec. Director
www.nbccongress.org

Xavier University,

            Institute for Black Catholic Studies
      Rev. Maurice J. Nutt, CSsR, D.Min 

      Director