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 what we saw at the museum. It relates well to the pro-life movement and what we are fighting for: rights and respect for the dignity of every human person and an end to violence.

We went to the Air and Space Museum after that, and walked around the city. Below is a picture of our group (we were combined with a group from the parish St. Vincent de Paul). Later, we went back to the hotel and had an evening session with everyone else - praying, singing, hearing testimonies from other youth, making signs for tomorrow's March and writing letters to senators and representatives.




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