Pre-March for Life Youth Rally Life Fest in Washington, DC Expects Thousands of Pro-Lifers with the Theme "Because Love is the Answer"
Their December 21 press release the Sisters of Life and Knights of Columbus shared that on January 19, 2024, they will host a morning rally in conjunction with the National March for Life, in “response to an increased need to support vulnerable women and form hearts in receiving every human life as a gift.”
The rally will be at the D.C. Armory, which holds 10,000 seats. Life Fest will feature testimonies and “dynamic speakers,” music from Damascus Worship and Sarah Kroher, and a Eucharistic healing procession, according to the release.
Join the Sisters of Life and Knights of Columbus for Life Fest 2024:
WHAT: Morning rally featuring dynamic speakers, music, Mass, and more!
WATCH the LIVE Stream LIFE FEST below:
WHEN: 7:30-10:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, right before the March for Life
WHERE: D.C. Armory, Washington, D.C.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: www.lifefestrally.com
During the last Life Fest, more than 4,000 young people and other pro-life advocates filled the D.C. Entertainment and Sports Arena before the March for Life on Jan. 20 for Life Fest, an event co-sponsored by the Sisters of Life and the Knights of Columbus.
Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori celebrated Mass for a crowd consisting primarily of high school and college students from as far as Arizona, Kansas and Massachusetts, who also spent time in eucharistic adoration and had the opportunity to receive the sacrament of reconciliation. Before Mass, Sister Bethany Madonna of the Sisters of Life emceed a lineup of speakers and musical performances that included testimonies about adoption, healing and forgiveness after abortion, and the dignity of every human person.
Knights of Columbus Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore will again celebrate Mass at Life Fest, along with Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston and Monsignor James Shea, president of the University of Mary in Bismark, North Dakota.
According to the press release, Life Fest will also give attendees “the opportunity to venerate first-class relics of the recently beatified Ulma family, whose lives exemplify what it means to value the dignity of every human person.”
“On March 24, 1944, Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, one of whom was still in the womb, were killed by Nazis in Markowa, Poland, for hiding members of two Jewish families,” the press release added. “The Ulma family bears special significance to the pro-life movement, as the relics include the first unborn child to be beatified.”
Patrick Kelly, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, said in the press release,
Since our founding over 140 years ago, the Knights of Columbus has been supporting vulnerable mothers and their children, and we’ve been involved in the pro-life movement since it began in the 1970s.
We’re honored to continue with this important mission by partnering once again with the Sisters of Life at the 2024 Life Fest. Together, we will work to inspire a new generation to restore a culture of life and march with courage and compassion until abortion is unthinkable.
Sister Mary Grace, SV, shared in the press release, “I’ll never forget the first time I attended a rally before the March for Life when I was a teenager. I knew the pro-life movement was important, but standing in a packed stadium, listening to stories and seeing countless other youth celebrate the gift of life, changed the trajectory of mine.”
“I marched differently. It was no longer simply another cause — it became for me a whole new way of looking at the world we live in,” she continued:
None of us are here by mistake; every single person is wanted and necessary. I left the rally with a fresh conviction that every single human person is precious, and your value is worth cherishing again every year.
The press release noted that in honor of the Ulma family’s 80th anniversary of martyrdom, there will be a display of “relics and a special exhibition titled ‘The Good Samaritans of Markowa: The Sacrificial Love of the Ulma Family’ will be on display at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., until at least March 24, 2024.”
Sister Marie Veritas, SV, said in the press release,
The human person is made for love. And creating a culture of love and life needs a proclamation and celebration of the fact that it is good that you exist. Every human person needs to know that they are important in God’s eyes, that they can’t be replaced.
Every woman needs to know that she is not alone, that we are with her and for her. Everyone who has suffered abortion deserves to know that healing is possible, that there is no sin or darkness bigger than the mercy of Jesus Christ. So we come together to celebrate, to proclaim the goodness of life.
WHEN: 7:30-10:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, right before the March for Life
WHERE: D.C. Armory, Washington, D.C.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: www.lifefestrally.com
During the last Life Fest, more than 4,000 young people and other pro-life advocates filled the D.C. Entertainment and Sports Arena before the March for Life on Jan. 20 for Life Fest, an event co-sponsored by the Sisters of Life and the Knights of Columbus.
Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori celebrated Mass for a crowd consisting primarily of high school and college students from as far as Arizona, Kansas and Massachusetts, who also spent time in eucharistic adoration and had the opportunity to receive the sacrament of reconciliation. Before Mass, Sister Bethany Madonna of the Sisters of Life emceed a lineup of speakers and musical performances that included testimonies about adoption, healing and forgiveness after abortion, and the dignity of every human person.
Knights of Columbus Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore will again celebrate Mass at Life Fest, along with Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley of the Archdiocese of Boston and Monsignor James Shea, president of the University of Mary in Bismark, North Dakota.
According to the press release, Life Fest will also give attendees “the opportunity to venerate first-class relics of the recently beatified Ulma family, whose lives exemplify what it means to value the dignity of every human person.”
“On March 24, 1944, Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children, one of whom was still in the womb, were killed by Nazis in Markowa, Poland, for hiding members of two Jewish families,” the press release added. “The Ulma family bears special significance to the pro-life movement, as the relics include the first unborn child to be beatified.”
Patrick Kelly, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, said in the press release,
Since our founding over 140 years ago, the Knights of Columbus has been supporting vulnerable mothers and their children, and we’ve been involved in the pro-life movement since it began in the 1970s.
We’re honored to continue with this important mission by partnering once again with the Sisters of Life at the 2024 Life Fest. Together, we will work to inspire a new generation to restore a culture of life and march with courage and compassion until abortion is unthinkable.
Sister Mary Grace, SV, shared in the press release, “I’ll never forget the first time I attended a rally before the March for Life when I was a teenager. I knew the pro-life movement was important, but standing in a packed stadium, listening to stories and seeing countless other youth celebrate the gift of life, changed the trajectory of mine.”
“I marched differently. It was no longer simply another cause — it became for me a whole new way of looking at the world we live in,” she continued:
None of us are here by mistake; every single person is wanted and necessary. I left the rally with a fresh conviction that every single human person is precious, and your value is worth cherishing again every year.
The press release noted that in honor of the Ulma family’s 80th anniversary of martyrdom, there will be a display of “relics and a special exhibition titled ‘The Good Samaritans of Markowa: The Sacrificial Love of the Ulma Family’ will be on display at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., until at least March 24, 2024.”
Sister Marie Veritas, SV, said in the press release,
The human person is made for love. And creating a culture of love and life needs a proclamation and celebration of the fact that it is good that you exist. Every human person needs to know that they are important in God’s eyes, that they can’t be replaced.
Every woman needs to know that she is not alone, that we are with her and for her. Everyone who has suffered abortion deserves to know that healing is possible, that there is no sin or darkness bigger than the mercy of Jesus Christ. So we come together to celebrate, to proclaim the goodness of life.
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