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Emily Shimota, our Youth Minister at St. Wenceslaus in New Prague and a high school youth from our parish is on pilgrimage with March for Life and the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. She will be blogging about her experience which will be shared here. Please follow this blog for regular updates about this awesome and life changing pilgrimage!The photo below was taken by our youth traveling with Emily while at the National Cathedral!  Sunday, January 26: This morning, we attended Mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Janesville, Wisconsin. It was a beautiful Mass and some of our youth sang in the choir. We went to lunch after, and made the last leg of the trip home. On the way, everyone shared how the pilgrimage affected them and what they were going to do to continue pro-life work when they get home. We arrived at the St. Paul Cathedral Sunday evening and said goodbye to our new friends. This was an incredible journey.  Jaden said he is coming back next yea

Follow our Youth Minister at St. Wenceslaus in New Prague and a high school youth from our parish is on pilgrimage with March for Life and the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. She will be blogging about her experience which will be shared here. Please follow this blog for regular updates about this awesome and life changing pilgrimage!The photo below was taken by our youth traveling with Emily while at the National Cathedral!  Saturday, January 25: This morning, we got up extra early and packed up our buses. We had Mass at our hotel and then headed off to the National Pro-Life Summit, the pro-life conference featuring many prominent speakers and Students for Life of America. We had the option to attend several different sessions; topics included Bioethics, Men and Abortion, Relationships, Apologetics, Sidewalk Counseling, and many more.  I was able to meet Abby Johnson, former Director of Planned Parenthood and current pro-life activist, whom the movie  Unplann

Follow our Youth Minister at St. Wenceslaus in New Prague and a high school youth from our parish is on pilgrimage with March for Life and the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. She will be blogging about her experience which will be shared here. Please follow this blog for regular updates about this awesome and life changing pilgrimage!The photo below was taken by our youth traveling with Emily while at the National Cathedral!  Friday, January 24: Today was the day - the March for Life! We went to Mass in the morning, which our own Bishop Cozzens celebrated and shared a wonderful pro-life testimony, and then went to the Pro-Life Rally, where we heard speakers, including the President of the United States, who was the first President ever to attend the March for Life.  The March for Life started, and we marched with hundreds of thousands of other people from all over the country to stand up for life. We marched for about two hours to the Capitol and ended at the Su

Emily Shimota, our Youth Minister at St. Wenceslaus in New Prague and a high school youth from our parish is on pilgrimage with March for Life and the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. She will be blogging about her experience which will be shared here. Please follow this blog for regular updates about this awesome and life changing pilgrimage!The photo below was taken by our youth traveling with Emily while at the National Cathedral!  Thursday, January 23: Today we went to Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. It was absolutely beautiful, and such an incredible feeling to be with hundreds of young people, parents, youth ministers, priests, nuns and bishops praying for the pro-life movement and the expectant moms and babies. After Mass, we went to pizza place called "We the Pizza." It was delicious!  We then went to the Holocaust Museum. There are no words to describe the horror of what happened during this time and w

Emily Shimota, our Youth Minister at St. Wenceslaus in New Prague and a high school youth from our parish is on pilgrimage with March for Life and the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. She will be blogging about her experience which will be shared here. Please follow this blog for regular updates about this awesome and life changing pilgrimage!The photo below was taken by our youth traveling with Emily while at the National Cathedral!  Greetings all! This is Emily Shimota, your Youth Minister. I, along with one of our youth, am attending the March for Life pilgrimage with the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I will be writing a short daily blog with events and pictures to keep you all informed with what we have been doing on this pilgrimage. Thank you for reading, and please pray for us and for the pro-life movement! All together we have about 270 youth, priests, chaperones and other youth ministers going to stand up for life. On Tuesday evening, we had