March for Life 2013 Recap

Well over half a million people showed up this year for the 40th annual March for Life in Washington D.C. last Friday.  No violence occurred, nor hate speech uttered. It was not primarily a march against abortion (although it is intrinsically against abortion in all circumstances), but even more so a march for life.  The media was no where to be found beside one or two local stations and a handful of Catholic networks.  It always amazes me how the media can go to such great measures to avoid mentioning over a half of a million people peacefully protesting in the capitol and yet they do year after year after year.  It hardly matters since this march has always from the beginning been a grassroots movement.

I heard a comment from someone in DC saying that they didn't like the March for Life, not because of the issue itself, but mainly because of how it disrupted the daily routine within the nation's capitol.  That is the march's purpose, to disrupt everyone's relatively comfortable lives and confront them with the reality that of abortion.  This is the greatest civil rights issue of our day and the most basic dealing with the right of every person to be born.  It is for the over 55 million who were denied that right since 1972.  

Pax et bonum,

Mike

Youth Rally and Mass before the march in the Verizon Center.

A Nation Rises - March for Life

A short film that came out recently promoting the annual March for Life in Washington D.C.  The march will be taking place on January 25.  More people are expected to take part in this   March for Life than attend Obama's second inauguration.   

Pax et Bonum,

Mike

January is Pro-Life Month

The 40th March for Life will be on January 25, 2013.  Where will you be?

To The Wonder - Official Trailer

Just saw this trailer, looks good...
Mike

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

"We may ask ourselves: what is the basis, the origin, the root of peace? How can we experience that peace within ourselves, in spite of problems, darkness and anxieties? The reply is given to us by the readings of today’s liturgy. The biblical texts, especially the one just read from the Gospel of Luke, ask us to contemplate the interior peace of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. During the days in which “she gave birth to her first-born son” (Lk 2:7), many unexpected things occurred: not only the birth of the Son but, even before, the tiring journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, not finding room at the inn, the search for a chance place to stay for the night; then the song of the angels and the unexpected visit of the shepherds. In all this, however, Mary remains even tempered, she does not get agitated, she is not overcome by events greater than herself; in silence she considers what happens, keeping it in her mind and heart, and pondering it calmly and serenely. This is the interior peace which we ought to have amid the sometimes tumultuous and confusing events of history, events whose meaning we often do not grasp and which disconcert us."

-Benedict XVI, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

1-1-2013

Just came across this video by Fr. Robert Barron at www.wordonfire.org.  Powerful.
Pax et bonum,
Mike