Friend of Ruth, Steve Hicks, sends this report from the March for Life in DC.
Jan 24 2011 – Wash DC
It may have well been called the “youth march” for life! I don’t know what the numbers were yet, but I stood and listened to the youth bagpipe band playing on the curb of Constitution Avenue while I watched 4 lanes of mostly teens and young adults pass by for at least a half hour. It was staggering. A tsunami of pro-life youth.
Earlier that morning the VERIZON Center (capacity for basketball game is around 20,000, JRM) was full and 10000 more we at the US Armory attending the morning Youth Mass.
The night before saw The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception packed into the side aisles with youth for a heavenly polyphonic sung Mass, with an endless line of seminarians and priests in a procession that seemed to last forever.
(Buy the DVD on EWTN.com to find out how long for sure!) Then the Crypt of the Basilica hosted an all night vigil for life.
Wow. My bones needed to sleep.
No wonder there was so much young energy on display in defense of the unborn. All manner of chants and high school cheers were shouted with sheer joy.
One group that looked like a hundred kids on the steps alongside Constitution Ave. cheering:
Who do we want!? Babies!?
How do we want them!? Alive!
What do we need to do?! Save their lives!
How are we gonna do it?! Thru prayer and sacrifice!!!
Amen AMDG Steve