Stations of the Cross for Life 2019

A Good Friday tradition for pro-lifers in Rochester is the Stations of the Cross for Life at McQuaid Jesuit High School.

The stations begin with a prayer service at the school, followed by the Stations and a Divine Mercy Chaplet while processing to the office of a doctor who performs abortions.

The chapel holds about 300 people - and the prayer-service was standing-room only. Fewer people march, (due to illness, disability, not wanting to process with small children, etc.), but we still had about 200 people marching in the occasional drizzle, including priests, deacons, and women religious. That's one of the largest crowds in all the time I've been taking part in the Stations.

The Stations are about more than abortion, though that clearly is the major focus. We pray for women who have had abortions, the elderly, those in prison, euthanasia, refugees, those facing the death penalty, social sins, and so on.

We prayed outside the doctor's office. Hopefully, the pro-choice side will finally listen to science, basic biology, ethics and reason, and we will not have to pray for an end to abortion any more.

Pax et bonum