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The Couple Checkup is designed to help you and your
partner build a more satisfying and intimate relationship. Just answering
the questions will stimulate thoughts and attitudes about your relationship.
It is designed to activate dialogue, discovery, and increase the overall
quality of your relationship.
It will help you discover your strengths as a couple. Strengths are what enable you to
enjoy, and to continue developing a healthy relationship. It will also help
you identify issues that are threatening the vitality of your relationship
and may need to be addressed.
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Want to become a parishioner of St. Peter's? Fill out a census
registration form and mail it back to us!
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Visit
Iberia Right to Life on Facebook!
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2013 South Region March for Life
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Pro-Life Corner ~
Life Matters: To the End of Our Days,
Respect Life - Euthanasia
Sadly, many people now believe that it is
permissible to deliberately hasten the death of persons who are
gravely ill. Admittedly, it can be painful and heart wrenching to
watch a loved one slowly die. After all, our intentions seem to be
good: to put someone out of his pain and “needless suffering.”
But where is the sacrificial love and recognition
of a loved one’s value when, for example, a husband smothers his
frail wife with a pillow, or shoots her in the head, or executes
what he terms a suicide pact by poisoning them both with carbon
monoxide in the garage of their luxurious home because she had
arthritis and moderate dementia?
To bring about the death of a person in order to
ease his or her suffering is always wrong. It is “always a serious
violation of the law of God because it is the deliberate and morally
unacceptable killing of a human person” (The Gospel of Life, No.
65).
(To be continued)
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Prayer to Abolish the Death Penalty
God of compassion,
You let your rain fall on the just and unjust.
Expand and deepen our hearts so that we may love you as You love,
Even those among us who have caused the greatest pain by taking life.
For there is in our land a great cry for vengeance as we fill up death rows and kill the killers
In the name of justice, in the name of peace.
Jesus, our brother,
You suffered execution at the hands of the state
But you did not let hatred overcome you.
Help us reach out to victims of violence so that our enduring love may help them heal.
Holy Spirit of God,
You strengthen us in the struggle for justice.
Help us to work tirelessly
For the abolition of state-sanctioned death
And to renew our society in its very heart so that violence will be no more.
Amen. |
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Secretariat for Community Services
1408 Carmel Drive
Lafayette, Louisiana 70501
Telephone: (337) 261-5607
Fax: (337) 261-5560
Office Hours:
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Monday through Thursday
8:30 a.m. - Noon - Friday
Director: Karol Meynard
Secretary: Trista Littell
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Crisis Pregnancy - Abortion Alternatives
Catholic Social Services Adoption Agency (337) 235-5218
Catholic Crises Pregnancy Center (337) 289-9366
Catholic Social Services
Post Adoption Counseling
Catholic Social Services, an adoption and counseling agency, is now offering
post adoption counseling to the community regardless of whether the adoption
was through an attorney or an agency.
This service is available to birth parents, adoptive parents or adult
adoptive persons who want to improve their relationships, expand their
understanding of adoption and its impact, and build on their strengths.
For more information or to make an appointment, please call
Catholic Social Services at 337-261-5654.
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Crisis Pregnancy Hotline
The Gabriel Project/Diocese of Lafayette
(337) 261-5607
Lifeline REF/Lafayette - 1-800-256-7222
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