“Many abortion workers have some faith,” explained ATTWN marketing and communications director Karen Herzog. “Each year, we choose a Christmas card with a Holy Family scene. The nuns write handwritten notes inside, letting the person who opens the cards and hopefully everyone else working there, know that religious sisters are praying for them to choose to leave the abortion industry.”
Pro-Life Nuns Send Christmas Cards To Every Abortion Mill In US
A beautiful, behind-the-scenes project has been taking place during the Christmas season for the past five years.
Religious sisters from convents across the country have been sending Christmas cards to abortion centers, letting the staff there know they are prayed for, and that help is available if they’re interested in finding other work.
Sr. Christina Nazareth, a Capuchin Sister who lives in a Williamsport, Pennsylvania convent, received a letter from And Then There Were None, an organization that helps abortion workers leave the industry. With no computers, website, or email, the letter was the first the five nuns there had heard of the ministry.
The letter was an invitation to participate in a project of mailing Christmas cards to abortion center staff. The order of nuns is contemplative, meaning they don’t leave the convent much, and devote themselves to prayer.
“We thought this would be a great way to reach out, like an extension of our prayer,” Sr. Christina told me.
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Receiving a special hand written note from the sisters is always a Grace! It helps you imagine you are special in a little sort of way!