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What is the Gabriel House Project?

The Gabriel Project is a ministry of Catholic Charities/Archdiocese of Denver, providing help to pregnant women in need. It also helps new moms and families in need of love, care, spiritual, material and emotional support. It can be described as a good samaritan approach toward helping women and families who have young children or expecting a child. It involves volunteers who fully support the Catholic teachings on life, working to assist women before, during and after pregnancies. A trained volunteer called an Angel, helps each and every mother who visits any one of the Gabriel Houses.

What services do you offer?

Do you have to be Catholic to get help at Gabriel House?

Do you take people into the house?

Where can I get help with food and shelter?

What is the role of the church?

Why is there a need for The Gabriel Project?

How does a church implement the Gabriel Project into their parish?

A new Gabiel House is established when a pastor belives that having a Grabiel House Project working from his parish would meet the needs of many in the community. At that time a meeting with the pastor and the Gabriel House Project Director will be held to review the feasibility of opening a Gabriel House.

It is important that the pastor and the parish/finance council know that the Gabriel Project will not be a financial burden on the parish.

Once the location, funding, volunteers, volunteer training, and supplies have been secured a soft opening will be scheduled. Shortly after, there will be a Blessing of the new Gabriel House.

Catholic Teachings on Life Issues

"Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is public affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death." — Evangelium Vitae no. 18, John Paul II

What does the Catholic church teach about abortion?

"Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning to its end; no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being." (Donum Vitae Intro 5, Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith)

"I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion...do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope...the Father of mercies is ready to give you His forgiveness and His peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation." ( Evangelium Vitae no. 99, John Paul II)

What does the Catholic church teach about chastity?

How does the Catholic church consider sterilization / contraception?

"The Church...teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life. Equally to be condemned...is direct sterilization, whether of the man or of the woman, whether permanent or temporary. Similiarly excluded is any action which either before, at the moment of, or after sexual intercourse, is specifically intended to prevent procreation – whether as an end or as a means." (Humanae Vitae no. 11 and 14, Paul VI)

How about infertility / IVF?

"The suffering of spouses who cannot have children...is a suffering that everyone must understand and properly evaluate. On the part of the spouses, the desire for a child is natural: it expresses the vocation to fatherhood and motherhood inscribed in conjugal love. Nevertheless, marriage does not confer upon the spouses the right to have a child, but only the right to perform those natural acts which are per se ordered to procreation." (Donum Vitae no. 8)

For more information regarding Life Issues, please contact the Respect Life Office of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Denver at RespectLifeDenver.org.

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