This run is a prayer of nine days. The runners run 365 miles to represent each day of the year. It is very difficult to run through traffic in all kinds of weather. They begin their run in Homestead, Florida.
People all along the path are made aware of the need to aid Maternity Homes and emergency lines along the route. Funds are raised by pledges, banquets and Masses celebrated along the route. The whole state benefits from this event.
You are invited to witness the closing at the Great Cross. There will be an arch of swords of the 4th Degree of Knights in their colorful attire.
The Knights who are the runners will arrive at 12:00pm. There will be a brief outdoor ceremony followed by a Mass at “Prince of Peace Mission” at 12:30pm. Then, Lunch at Bishop Baker Hall at 2:00pm. |
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“Cemetery of the Unborn” Four thousand five hundred crosses will be placed on the grounds of Prince of Peace Church. This year will be the 18th year the crosses will bring the people together. Hundreds of teenagers, College students and Youth Ministers of all faiths came to install the crosses last year. We hope to have 4,000 teenagers this year. All it would take is one person to ask another. Bring a hammer, a lunch and music.
Love and Prayer can move the mountain.
During this time many women change their minds about abortion. |
Forty five thousand five hundred mothers and forty five thousand five hundred babies’ totals ninety thousand people. Thanks to the Staff, Volunteers, Board Members, Businesses, Churches and YOU who have made this possible. The miracle of St. Gerard Campus is the thousands of people involved in the ministry.
Our mothers at the Campus were so blessed at Christmas with gifts of a practical sense. Such as clothing, diapers and baby clothes. Prior to Christmas we sent blankets & hats to the Hospital for the newborns.
I have my most profound statement to make to you. WE ARE IN A WAR! If the news broadcasted “Four thousand soldiers were killed today in war!” What would you do? As a young man you would stop this killing. As a young woman you would say I can not bear to hear this news. Please end this war. As a nation, we must help by putting out a loving hand in prayer and action.
You have made a big step by being on our list and donating. Now take one more step to be at the Cross on March 4, 2006.
Teach your young men to love and respect women by example.
Let’s see thousands of teenage men standing for life in St. Augustine. I challenge all Churches and Organizations to compete. Who will have the most teens?
Caroline A. Wolff
Director/Founder |
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TWENTY FOUR HOURS AT THE ST. GERARD CAMPUS
It all began on a Friday morning. I received a call from a nurse in the hospital, as a young couple lost their little baby. They were devastated and so was the rest of the family. We were needed to help with the Cemetery of the Innocents. All the little babies are buried with love and care. That night after our day in school another call came in and a young mother who was placing her baby for adoption was in labor. The adoptive couple called. We went to the hospital to be there to love and support all their families. I also visited a student on the maternity floor from our class who was tenderly nursing her baby.
I stopped in to say hello. We were supposed to be in Hastings on that Saturday to present our program. This never happened as other mothers went into labor. A call came in at 12:30am, a mother was in the hospital shaking and crying, afraid of birth, I didn’t return home until 3:00am. She had a safe and healthy delivery the next morning with the support of her family. They all just needed a little coaching and re-assurance. Two other students needed attention. They needed to be taken to the hospital to be checked one in Jacksonville and one in St. Augustine.
TWENTY FOUR HOURS AT THE ST. GERARD CAMPUS…
Caroline A. Wolff
Director/Founder
IN PSALM 128:2, 3, a happy family is described. “You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.”
Since the words “Oh, no, not another baby!” are still fresh in my memory, I look for the shrine in an expectant parent’s eyes and try to add to it with words such as: “How wonderful. You’ll have both work and joy, but the happiness will wipe away the labors.” |
