70+ Christendom Students Pray at DC Planned Parenthood
From LifesiteNews:
Sacrificing their precious sleep and leisure time, more than 70 students from Virginia's Christendom College filled the lawns outside a D.C. Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic on Saturday morning to prayerfully battle abortion and support a handful of student sidewalk counselors offering information on crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to women entering and exiting the facility. Saturday's "Mega-Shield" event was the culminating event of the semester for Shield of Roses, a Christendom pro-life group comprised of students who travel about an hour and fifteen minutes each Saturday morning to the nearest PP facility. Most of the students attend a 7am Mass offered on campus before piling into school vans or personal vehicles.
Paul Wilson, the current student head of Shield of Roses, promotes Shield on campus and leads a program of prayer that includes 20 decades of the Rosary, traditional hymns, and the chaplet of Divine Mercy. Members of the college choir also sing beautiful polyphonic pieces that sharply contrast with the insults and profanity sometimes thrown at the group by passers-by.
About two decades ago, a doctor told Wilson's mother that her healthy college sophomore would be born retarded and should thus be aborted. His mother's decision to choose life has given Wilson a special motivation to work on behalf of those threatened by abortion.
"It's painful to watch people go in there [PP]," Wilson told LifeSiteNews.com. "Evil has to be confronted."
Wilson and fellow Shield members' commitment to prayer is rooted in their conviction that it is only "through God that we can do anything at all."
In addition to the many students focused on prayer, a number of students take part in sidewalk counseling. More
Sacrificing their precious sleep and leisure time, more than 70 students from Virginia's Christendom College filled the lawns outside a D.C. Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic on Saturday morning to prayerfully battle abortion and support a handful of student sidewalk counselors offering information on crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) to women entering and exiting the facility. Saturday's "Mega-Shield" event was the culminating event of the semester for Shield of Roses, a Christendom pro-life group comprised of students who travel about an hour and fifteen minutes each Saturday morning to the nearest PP facility. Most of the students attend a 7am Mass offered on campus before piling into school vans or personal vehicles.
Paul Wilson, the current student head of Shield of Roses, promotes Shield on campus and leads a program of prayer that includes 20 decades of the Rosary, traditional hymns, and the chaplet of Divine Mercy. Members of the college choir also sing beautiful polyphonic pieces that sharply contrast with the insults and profanity sometimes thrown at the group by passers-by.
About two decades ago, a doctor told Wilson's mother that her healthy college sophomore would be born retarded and should thus be aborted. His mother's decision to choose life has given Wilson a special motivation to work on behalf of those threatened by abortion.
"It's painful to watch people go in there [PP]," Wilson told LifeSiteNews.com. "Evil has to be confronted."
Wilson and fellow Shield members' commitment to prayer is rooted in their conviction that it is only "through God that we can do anything at all."
In addition to the many students focused on prayer, a number of students take part in sidewalk counseling. More
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