RL Coordinator Resources October 2025

RL Resources: October 2025

This section is dedicated to providing seasonal resources for Parish Respect Life Coordinators If there is a resource that you believe would be useful to include, please contact us at [email protected].

1 | Word of Life

This month’s WORD OF LIFE features the 2025 Respect Life Month resources that have been developed to assist parishioners to understand and value the gift of human life and become engaged with building a culture that cherishes every human life. As always, there is also a SPANISH version available

2 | Respect Life Month Action Guide

Check out the USCCB RESPECT LIFE MONTH RESOURCE PAGE.  On it you will find the Action Guide which contains sample bulletin announcements leading up to Respect LIfe Sunday, intercessory prayers for all of October, homily helps for your pastor and a sample activity. Also, check out the RESPECT LIFE STORE, where you can download for free or order printed materials as bulletin inserts to utilize throughout the month of October on different topics like Abortion, Capital Punishment and Reproductive Technology.  If you missed it live last month, watch the one-hour WEBINAR to explain how to find all the resources.

3 | Respect Life Fund Collection

Parishes all across our archdiocese will be having a collection for the Respect Life Fund during Respect Life Sunday. First, please remind your pastor of this special annual collection on the weekend of October 5th and 6th. If you have the means at your parish, share or show our RESPECT LIFE FUND VIDEO as well.  This money goes to support the work of pro-life agencies like Pregnancy Care Centers right here in this Archdiocese, as well as our post-abortion ministry. For those who prefer (or for parishes where the collection is not happening) you may also put in your bulletin that you can give online HERE. Thank you for your generosity!

4 | March Training Save the Date, March 7 and 14

The Office for Respect Life Ministries and the Center for New Evangelization are teaming up for a day-long training just for Respect Life Ministry leaders. We will offer various breakout sessions on things like running a Walking with Moms in Need group in your family, pro-life apologetics, or working with pastors and recruiting more volunteers. Details and locations are still being worked out but mark your calendars for Saturday March 7 in Cincinnati and Saturday March 14 in Dayton.