The Ministry seeks to promote the sacredness of life from conception to natural death within our parishes and our community. Members sponsor and arrange education on various issues and promote grassroots action by parishioners in cooperation with the Pregnancy Care Center, the Knights of Columbus, the Massachusetts Citizens for Life, and the Archdiocesan Pro-Life Dicastery.  The ministry regularly conducts a January Baby Bottle Drive in support of the Pregnancy Care Center, and the St. Agnes Walk For Life in June, and has recently hosted Archdiocesan-sponsored talks on palliative care. Contact for more information:  Jonathan Nauman

phone:  978-922-7015 or email:   jonnauman@hotmail.com

WHEN:  Sunday, November 10, 7PM-8:30PM
WHERE:  St. Agnes Parish Center, 186 Woburn Street, Reading

While initiatives in favor of doctor-prescribed suicide have been and will continue to be important topics for political debate, the real questions behind these issues are moral and human, the challenges all of us must face in the actual process of dying, especially when this happens to include the dependency, the helplessness, and the pain that so often accompany terminal illnesses. How are we able to see even this aspect of humanity as an opportunity to cherish God's gift of life? What are the directives that our Church offers?
Presented by M.C. Sullivan, JD, MTS, RN, and Chief Healthcare Ethicist, Archdiocese of Boston, Initiative for Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning.
Sponsored by Sanctity of Life Ministry.