Fortnight for Freedom

Parishes throughout the Archdiocese are hosting educational and prayer events throughout the Fortnight. Please join in these prayer events.

If your parish is planning an event, please let us know (johanna.coughlin@archbalt.org) and we’ll add it to the Archdiocesan calendar!

Prayer cards, advertising poster, bulletin inserts, etc.

A whole range of educational videos from religious figures, professors, commentators, public policy experts, lawyers, etc.

Videos range from 2 minutes to almost 2 hours.

What Can I Do?

Pray!
- Prayer Resources from the USCCB
- Litany for Liberty
Write Letters to the Editor
- So many believe this is just about contraception, but it’s about religious liberty! Check out this published letter written by Sandi Nettina (St. Paul).
- Also, Helen Alvare (Where are the women? Here we are) shared another column written by a man (upon request from the Chicago Tribune because of his consistent letters to the editor on the topic).
Lobby your Legislators
- Email your legislators to Oppose the HHS Mandate and Support the Rights of Conscience Act.

Prayer for Religious Freedom

O GOD OUR CREATOR,

from your provident hand we have received

our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

You have called us as your people and given us

the right and the duty to worship you, the only true God,

and your Son, Jesus Christ.

Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit,

you call us to live out our faith in the midst of the world,

bringing the light and the saving truth of the Gospel

to every corner of society.

We ask you to bless us

in our vigilance for the gift of religious liberty.

Give us the strength of mind and heart

to readily defend our freedoms when they are threatened;
give us courage in making our voices heard

on behalf of the rights of your Church

and the freedom of conscience of all people of faith.
Grant, we pray, O heavenly Father,

a clear and united voice to all your sons and daughters

gathered in your Church

in this decisive hour in the history of our nation,

so that, with every trial withstood

and every danger overcome—

for the sake of our children, our grandchildren,

and all who come after us—

this great land will always be “one nation, under God,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.