I'm at the March for Life this weekend. Tonight I attended the Vigil Mass for the March for Life. I have good news and bad news: The bad news is that the thing was a fire marshal's nightmare with people clogging every aisle so badly that it was almost impossible to get through. That's also the good news &mdash especially given that I made that assessment an hour and fifteen minutes before the Mass, and this weekend was a snowed-out bitterly cold weekend — but the even better news is that the people taking up all the space were youths! An unbelievable number of youths, many of whom were camping out for the night at the shrine. I am so encouraged by the awe-inspiring number of young people who showed up for the march. I am so psyched!
The Mass was held at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. What a beautiful church. All sorts of chapels and side altars for various nationalities and so forth. I have some photos I intend to post.
The massive turnout at the Mass made me wonder how many people would be at the march, which immediately made me wonder how we'd count them accurately, which reminded me of the fact that the capitol police stopped doing counts due to partisan arguments over them. This made me hope that the pro-life movement has never been responsible for inflating attendance numbers (much less for driving the capitol police to give up counting). This is my whole theme about how we as Christians must be totally fair and objective even concerning ourselves: getting our point across must never supercede truth, fairness, and justice.
I bought some mountaineering socks and hand warmers (which I plan, against instructions, to install in my shoes) to keep my feet warm, since that seems to be an issue with me (not that it isn't with everyone).
