NH Right to Life's Annual
MARCH  FOR  LIFE
CONCORD,  NH
Saturday
January 17, 2004
(See Complete Schedule Below)


In observance of the 31th anniversary
of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision
which legalized well over 40 million deaths
 by surgical abortion in America ...
... and counting every 20 seconds...

Over 43 Million babies

 
A huge thank-you to all the pro-lifers who joined us at the 2004 March for Life! 

A week-long record-setting icy cold snap ended just in time for us -- we had a 27 deg. "heat-wave"!  

If you have photos of the event, please e-mail them to us via life@nhrtl.org    

 

Click the image below for full-size
NH Sunday News Article

     WEBPAGE ADVERTISEMENT FROM
     PRIOR TO THE MARCH APPEARS BELOW

Why We Haven't Succeeded
in Abolishing Abortion
 

Gerry Matatics, president of Biblical Foundations International, will lead a seminar called  Why We Haven't Succeeded in Abolishing Abortion   after the March and lunch.  Details below.

PLEASE  HELP  US ADVERTISE 
THE  2004 MARCH  FOR  LIFE:

Click here for an Acrobat PDF image of
the flyer you could print and photocopy.

Click here for a JPG image of the flyer
you could print and photocopy.

Please forward this page to your pro-life
friends asking them to help advertise this
observance of the Roe v. Wade decision.

Approximate Schedule:
Concord March for Life Map / Locations

9AM
to
9:30AM


Memorial o
bservance at Concord Landfill (Old Turnpike Road) where aborted babies were dumped.   Read the 1989 poem by US Sen. Gordon Humphrey, and the story of how the babies were dumped there.
 

10AM
to
11AM


Catholic Mass at St. John's the Evangelist, 72 South Main (Route 3), Concord, led by TBD.    (NOTE:  
Not  using Sacred Heart this year!)

Protestant Service at First Baptist Church, 20 North State, Concord,
led by Pastor Bud Woodward of the Park Street Baptist Church in Pittsfield, with music by Randy Miller and company.
 
 

11:00AM to 11:45AM
Sean Mahoney is hosting an open house reception for coffee at the Barley House Restaurant in Concord, right across the street from the gold-domed State House.  A big thank-you to Sean for this warm-up prior to the March for Life.
 
11:45AM
Sharp

Gather at gold-domed NH State House plaza at 107 North Main (Route 3), Concord.   Distribute picket-witness signs.  Bring your own pro-life signs or use one of ours.  Brief Speeches.  Rally for Life.  A proclamation from Gov. Benson is expected.
 
Noon
March leaves State House plaza, goes past Concord abortuary (about 7 city blocks away) and we re-assemble at St. John's Fellowship Hall (72 South Main / Route 3) for light lunch (another 5 blocks)   (Note:  We are NOT using Sacred Heart this year!)
 
1:15pm
Announcements and introductions at St. John's Fellowship Hall, 72 South Main (Route 3), Concord.  Reports on pro-life legislation, the NHRTL Educational Trust, etc.
 

 

 

 


1:30pm
to
2:15pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Why We Haven't Succeeded
in Abolishing Abortion
   

Gerald Christian Matatics is known throughout the English-speaking world as one of the most exciting and intellectually gifted defenders of the Catholic Faith in our time. Formerly an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and a vigorous opponent of Catholicism, he spent three years researching and attempting to refute the Catholic Faith to prevent friend and former seminary classmate Scott Hahn from embracing it. Finally convinced by his studies that Catholicism is the original and authentic form of Christianity, Gerry, together with his wife and children, entered the Catholic Church in 1986. He was the first PCA minister ever to become Roman Catholic; several have since followed him.

Gerry is Founder and President of Biblical Foundations International, a ministry that demonstrates to Catholics and non-Catholics alike the scriptural case for Catholicism. He has held hundreds of seminars, addressed huge audiences of several thousands at major conferences, and publicly debated well-known critics of Catholicism throughout North America, Great Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He has spoken in countless Catholic and Protestant churches and seminaries, colleges and universities (including Oxford University, Boston College, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale). He has offered retreats and training sessions to priests and religious such as Mother Angelica's Missionaries of the Eternal Word. In addition to being a frequent guest on Protestant, Catholic, and secular radio and television worldwide (such as Mother Angelica Live!, Fr. Kenneth Baker's Review of the News, and other shows on EWTN and WEWN shortwave radio), he served for a number of years as a co-host with the late Dr. William Marra of the nation-wide weekly radio program Where Catholics Meet.

Gerry's work has brought him into contact with entertainment superstars such as Mel Gibson, Gloria Estefan, Keanu Reeves, and Rush Limbaugh, royalty such as King Kigeli V of Rwanda and Prince Henri de Bourbon-Parme of France, and noted authors such as Michael Davies and the late Malachi Martin. His work has been praised and endorsed by many bishops and cardinals such as Bishop Myers of Peoria, Cardinal Law of Boston, and the late Cardinal O'Connor of New York, who wrote, "You have not only accepted the gift of faith but now bring it to others in a unique way. Yours is a rare gift and your willingness to give it freely to the service of the Church is both a challenge and inspiration to us all."

Mr. Matatics graduated with distinction as a scholarship student from the prestigious preparatory school Phillips Exeter Academy. At the University of New Hampshire he designed a major in Classical, New Testament, and Patristic Greek and, taking double the normal course load, earned his B.A. in two years instead of four (the only undergraduate ever to do so), graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He received a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, at the time he entered the Church was ABD (all but dissertation) for a Ph.D. in Biblical Interpretation from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, the top-ranked conservative Presbyterian seminary in the world, and has taken graduate courses in Sacred Scripture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Prof. Matatics has taught on the faculties of Westminster Theological Seminary, St. Joseph's University, the University of San Diego, the Notre Dame Pontifical Catechetical Institute, Aquinas College, and Christendom College, and, most recently, served for three years as Professor of Sacred Scripture and Apologetics at Our Lady of Guadalupe International Seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the National Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association of America, and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.

Gerry and his wife Leslie homeschool their eight children.  Learn more about Gerry, his family, his teachings, and his speaking schedule at www.gerrymatatics.org

2:30PM Adjournment

Last year, some 340 marchers joined together to peacefully
insist on restoration of the right to life for all innocent human life.

JOIN  US  THIS  YEAR!   Saturday, Jan.17, 2004 
Get pro-actively PRO-LIFE in 2004 ! !

Fellowship Hall was packed in 2003: click on any image for a closer look