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Byzantines at the March for Life in Washington, DC

WASHINGTON, DC - Byzantine Catholic faithful from across the United States joined in the annual 400,000 strong March for Life on Friday, January 22nd to protest the 1973 Supreme Court decision allowing the murder of children in the womb via abortion. We pray that the merciful Lord will touch the hearts of our political leaders with respect for life from conception to natural death.

Here are a few photos:

March for Life 2010

ByzanTEENs for Life and the seminarians from SS Cyril & Methodius Seminary in Pittsburgh. In the foreground (gray hair, light blue scarf and purple hat) is His Grace, Bishop JOHN of Parma.

March for Life 2010 Seminarians from St. Josaphat Ukrainian Greek Catholic Seminary in Washington, DC were not far away.

March for Life 2010 400,000 witnesses for life!
A pdf with texts for a Divine Liturgy for Life can be found at this link.

Wisdom from the Church Fathers

For to despise the present age, not to love transitory things, unreservedly to stretch out the mind in humility to God and our neighbor, to preserve patience against offered insults and, with patience guarded, to repel the pain of malice from the heart, to give one's property to the poor, not to covet that of others, to esteem the friend in God, on God's account to love even those who are hostile, to mourn at the affliction of a neighbor, not to exult in the death of one who is an enemy, this is the new creature whom the Master of the nations seeks with watchful eye amid the other disciples, saying:"If, then, any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new" (2 Cor. 5:17). 

St. Gregory the Great
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