40 days for life is a community-based campaign that takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families.  It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion.  It draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program:
 
Prayer and Fasting
Constant Vigil
Community Outreach​​​

See https://40daysforlife.com/ for more information.  Also see Father Janoch for a book of prayers and reflections for these forty days which started on 9/23.  ​

​On September 15th, at St. Charles Borromeo Church, a Holy Hour was held in honor of our Patroness of Council #16137:  Mother of Sorrows.  Our Chaplain Father Edward J. Janoch presided in what was a beautiful hour of prayer and reflection.  Besides being our Council’s Patroness, the Mother of Sorrows was also a devotion that was held by parishioners of St. Charles Borromeo Parish starting with World War II and ending around the time of the Second Vatican Council.  The Mother of Sorrows was invoked to guide the many parishioners who were thrown into sorrow by the injuries, death and destruction that is cause by war and by the uncertainties that war brings.

The Holy Hour began with the 7:00 p.m. Mass that was well attended by not only the Knights, but also by a number of parishioners.  The Rosary of the Seven Sorrows was led by Father Janoch and prayed by the congregation.  The Litany of Loreto was also prayed.  The Holy Hour was concluded by the traditional Eucharistic Benediction.