40 Days for Life Spring Update – Holy Week

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Contact: Mary Clark
Cincinnati Campaign Leader
513-604-9054 /  cincy40days@fuse.net
Week of March 29, 2026

HOLY WEEK

Final Update of the Spring/Lenten Campaign

Prayer Hour of Thanksgiving

We held out closing “Prayer Hour of Thanksgiving” on Palm Sunday with a procession from Holy Name Church to Planned Parenthood while praying the  Way of the Cross for the Victims of Abortion .  Thanks to Deacon Dave Shaffer who lead the prayers and gave his remarks. He noted that as we heard in the reading of the Passion of Christ that morning in St. Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus was crucified at Golgotha, which in Aramaic means “Place of the Skull” because the hill resembles a skull with hollow eye sockets. A long-standing Christian tradition claims the skull of Adam was buried at the base of the hill. Jesus’ blood ran down through the cracks in the stone, thus signifying Christ’s victory over death where it first began.

40 Days for Life 365

Between the two yearly 40 day/24 hour prayer campaigns, we are joining with about 60 other cities who are taking part in  40 Days for Life 365 . The goal is to eventually have prayer at Planned Parenthood during all of their office hours. We are beginning by asking for help to cover 8am to 5pm (last hour 4-5pm) on Wednesdays with April 8 th  being the first day.

You can sign up on our website,  www.40daysforlife. com/cincinnati, just as during a 40 Days for Life spring or fall campaign. The calendar will only display Planned Parenthood’s office hours as we know them. Weekly prayer commitments are ideal, but whatever you can do will be a blessing. If you can’t make it on Wednesdays, you may sign up for any day and hour displayed. As this is just beginning and there will be gaps in our coverage at first, signs will not be brought to the site. If you would like a sign to keep and bring with you each time you come, please contact me and I can arrange getting a sign to you.

Finally, our entire 40 Days for Life core team is very grateful to you for sacrificing your time and convenience through COLD, snow, rain, wind and some beautiful days to take part in covering the 960 hours of our Spring/Lenten campaign.

We wish you a Blessed Holy Week and a Happy Easter Season!

Known churches and group affiliations of our participants –  Please let me know if your affiliation is not listed (even if you are coming as an individual and not with a church/group).

Archdiocese of Cincinnati Respect Life Office

Blessed Sacrament, Ft. Mitchell, KY

Dearborn County, Indiana Catholic Churches (St. Mary, Aurora, IN; St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, IN; St. Teresa, Bright, IN; All Saints, Guilford, IN)

Divine Mercy, Belleview, KY 

Divine Mercy parish family (Our Lady of the Visitation; St. Joseph, North Bend; St. Jude, Bridgetown)

Eastside Catholics (St. Cecilia; St. Mary, Hyde Park; Oratory of St. John Vianny, Madisonville)

Immaculate Conception, Norwood

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Burlington, KY

Mary Queen of Heaven Parish Family (St. Margaret Mary, N. College Hill; St. Ann, Groesbeck; St. James the Greater, White Oak; St. Bernard of Clairvaux)

Miami University Students for Life, Oxford

Most Holy Eucharist parish family, Cincinnati (St. Antoninus, St. Martin of Tours, St. Catharine of Siena, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Our Lady of Lourdes)

Old Saint Mary’s/Sacred Heart, Cincinnati

Pregnancy Center Plus

Pregnancy Center West

Queen of Apostles parish family (Our Lady of the Valley, Reading; Our Lady of the Rosary, Greenhills; St. James of the Valley)

St. Anthony, Taylor Mill, KY

St. Antoninus, Cincinnati

St. Catherine of Siena, Ft. Thomas, KY

St. Columban, Loveland

St. Edmund Campion Academy

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (St. Mary Magdalene parish family)

St. Francis De Sales, Lebanon

St. Gertrude, Madeira

St. Gregory the Great Parish Family (IHM, Anderson Twp., Guardian Angels, Mt. Washington; St. John Fisher, Newtown)

St. Henry, Erlanger, KY

St. Ignatius of Loyola, Monfort Heights

St. John the Baptist, Dry Ridge Road

St. John the Evangelist, Deer Park

St. Joseph, Cold Spring, KY

St. Joseph, Crescent Springs, KY

St. Margaret of York, Loveland

St. Mary, Arnheim

St. Mary, Oxford

St. Mary of the Assumption, Alexandria, KY

St. Paul, Florence, KY

St. Paul the Apostle parish family (St. Vincent Ferrer and All Saints), Kenwood

St. Philip, Melbourne, KY

St. Pius X, Edgewood, KY

St. Susanna, Mason

St. Thomas, Ft. Thomas, KY

St. Thomas More (Stella Maris parish family)

St. Timothy, Union, KY

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