Goodbye, til early November

Okay friends, I will get to the promised "other stuff" posts. But not for a while.

40 Days for Life has started here in our diocese and I've taken this time to give up blogs as my 'fast'. So that means both reading other people's and posting my own.

Pray for the success of this vigil! Pray for babies to be saved and women to spared the pain of abortion.

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