40 Days for Life begins next week on Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026. Please join us for one or more of the opening opening prayer vigils starting tomorrow.
Saturday Feb. 14 at 9:00 AM, gather to pray on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood COLLEGE AVENUE, which is located at 4575 College Ave, San Diego, CA 92115. For more details, see the link to the website for the Chula Vista campaign below.
Saturday Feb. 14 at 11:30 AM, Prayers led by Fr. Elmer Mandac, Pastor of Good Shepherd Parish, on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood MIRA MESA, which is located at 10717 Camino Ruiz, San Diego 92126. Meet on the sidewalk near the grass in front of Carls Jr. For more details, see the link to the website for the Mira Mesa campaign below.
Sunday Feb. 15 at 2:30 PM, Planned Parenthood CHULA VISTA. Meet at the corner of Broadway and Palomar (1295 Broadway) in Chula Vista. Following prayers, there will be a potluck and movie at St. Pius X parish. For more details, see the link to the website for the Chula Vista campaign below.
Monday Feb. 16 at 6:00 PM, Planned Parenthood EL CAJON, which is located at 1685 East Main St, El Cajon. Meet in front of the Planned Parenthood, there will be no procession to the facility.
Wednesday Feb 18 at 7:30 AM, Pray the Rosary in front of Planned Parenthood DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO, which is located at 2017 First Avenue (First and Grape). This is the main surgical center for all of San Diego.
Links to the 8 locations are below. Check for more information and updates on the websites for each location below.
1. Chula Vista Planned Parenthood
2. Downtown San Diego Planned Parenthood
3. Mira Mesa Planned Parenthood
4. College Area Planned Parenthood
6. El Cajon Planned Parenthood
8. Escondido
Please join the prayerful effort to end abortion where we live by participating in 40 Days for Life.
Helpers of Gods Precious Infants San Diego | PO Box 19245 | San Diego, CA 92159 US
I don’t agree with this coopting of Lent for their political cause. Lent is about personal spiritual discipline, not political activism. The left does it too. There was an article on a lefty Catholic site about how protesting against ICE can be considered a form of Lenten spiritual practice. When politics is your religion, you try to bring politics into religious practices. Both sides are guilty.
Working to save babies and their mothers from the violence of abortion is not political. There are some on the left, in addition to most, but not all, conservatives, who work to protect life. Abortion is not a matter of prudential judgement. It is an intrinsic evil. As Pope Francis said, it’s like hiring a hit man to kill a baby. That said, I do understand your legitimate concern about politics inappropriately using religion and, yes, “both sides” (of the political aisle) have been guilty of that. Yet, 40 Days for Life is not political activism. Have you ever participated? It’s about prayer, helping women and girls (as well as babies) and hopefully persuading other to act on behalf of life (which is a human act, not a political one). I encourage you and others to (re-)read Saint John Paul II’s Gospel of Life. It’s not political. Below is a summary of Evangelium Vitae from the US Bishops. You’ll see that neither document is a political one:
https://www.usccb.org/resources/wwmin-evangelium-vitae-summary.pdf
Am I to believe that saving babies from being murdered has nothing to do with almsgiving?
Reply to co-opting Lent: There is nothing political about praying at an abortion clinic to try to stop the scourge of abortion in California and across America. About 1 million unborn baby children are slaughtered in America each year. This must stop or face the judgement of Almighty God! End Abortion Now! Adoption is the Option.
California, poisoned and led to its destruction by the Democrats, desperately needs all of us to pray and work hard to overturn the Devil’s deadly grip, held by Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic Party. Newsom just signed into law a bill giving $90 million in one-time emergency funding, to Planned Parenthood and other “reproductive health services” clinics, as the Trump Administration pulled federal funding for abortiions. $90 million to slay millions of helpless, innocent, beautiful unborrn children, who will never be loved, hugged and kissed in the welcoming arms of their mothers. And they will all never be given a “second chance” at life– with state-funded adoption services to loving homes. They will all just be violently killed. “Good riddance.” Like pest control. Please pray for the success of 40 Days for Life and similar endeavors.
The Deacon said it better than me.