Pro-Life Activities

Sacred Heart promotes and encourages parishioners to get involved in various pro-life activities. Some of these are:

Life Chain of Manassas
On the first Sunday in October we gather with other pro-life supporters and line the road, silently holding uniform pro-life signs in a visual statement of solidarity by the Christian Community.

Annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Each January, we encourage parishioners to participate in the March for Life.
Morning Mass will be at the main church and then afterwards we have a bus going to the March.

Shower for Birthright
The Women of Sacred Heart hold a shower each year in January to gather donations of baby items for Birthright which is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women who feel distressed by unplanned pregnancy.

Diocesan Respect Life Masses
Parishioners are informed of, and encouraged to attend Respect Life Masses, celebrated by Bishop Loverde, which are held at various parishes throughout the year.

The pope "must not proclaim his own ideas, but rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.…That's what Pope John Paul II did, when ... in the face of erroneous interpretations of freedom, he unequivocally stressed the inviolability of the human being, and of human life from the moment of conception until natural death…”
May 7, 2005 Pope Benedict XVI Installation as Bishop of Rome

Children are the present and future of the Church. They play an active role in the evangelization of the world and, with their prayers, help to save and improve it. As I renew my prayers for the small victims of the tsunami in Asia, I cannot forget the children who are victims of hunger and disease, of war and terrorism, nor, in addition, those who are kidnapped, disappear or are exploited by despicable trafficking. May Mary Most Holy, who today presents Christ to the peoples, help us to adore him with a child's heart.
Pope John Paul II, Angelus, January 6, 2005