40 Days for Life Spring Update – Week One

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Contact: Mary Clark
Cincinnati Campaign Leader
513-604-9054 /  cincy40days@fuse.net
February 20, 2026

Weekly Update – Week One

First week of the Spring/Lenten Campaign Underway

Our Sunday, February 15 Kickoff Rally was one of our best. Our guest speaker was Brian Gibson, 40 Days for Life Leader in St. Paul, Minnesota and Director of Pro-Life Action Ministries (PLAM) there. PLAM has been conducting sidewalk counseling for over forty years and has saved thousands of babies’ lives over that time. Brian believes that PLAM and prayer go hand in hand.

Brian emphasized three key points about the 40 Days for Life campaign:

(1) It is VITAL that everyone who is physically capable signs up to commit to prayer hours (once a week?) throughout the campaign. We should be praying our hearts out and adding sacrificial fasting to that commitment. We MUST be present at the abortion site because prayer is powerful but our presence AND prayer is even more powerful.

(2) Who are we trying to protect? Hold on to the fact that the preborn are human beings. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of that because we can’t see them.

(3) The number one life that is going to be impacted by your public prayer witness is YOU! We experience real spiritual growth when be come out to the sidewalk to pray.

So have you signed up to cover open vigil hours yet? Go to  www.40daysforlife.com/cincinnati  and register if you have not already (you don’t have to re-register each campaign) and help us fill the many open hours in the early days of the campaign. If you need help in signing up, download “ Volunteer Website Tutorial” from the  RESOURCES  list on the right of our webpage, or contact me. – God bless.

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).

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)

Archdiocese of Cincinnati Respect Life Office

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. Columban, Loveland

St. Edmund Campion Academy

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

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. Joseph, Cold Spring, KY

St. Joseph, Crescent Springs, KY

St. Margaret of York, Loveland

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. Pius X, Edgewood, KY

St. Susanna, Mason

St. Thomas More (Stella Maris parish family)

St. Timothy, Union, KY

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