Dear Pro-life friends,
Please take a few minutes to see this short video made 10 years ago that shows the essence of our annual Good Friday Pro-Life Stations of the Cross. You will probably recognize many dedicated pro-lifers who are still actively standing up for the unborn, kids and teens who have grown up, and sadly others who have passed from this world. At that time we were walking on the sidewalk. We now walk in the street.
This year Bishop Ramon Bejarano will be leading the Good Friday Pro-Life Stations of the Cross on April 7, 2022.
Please arrive by 11:45 am at the sidewalk on the east side of St. Joseph’s Cathedral, at 4th and Beech (Note: we do not meet inside the church). We leave at 12:00 pm sharp, walking through the streets to the old Federal Building at Front Street and Broadway. We will line up along the sidewalk and courtyard for the Pro-Life Stations of the Cross and then process back to St. Joseph’s, arriving at about 1:15.
Signs will be provided, or you may bring your own… but no graphics please. Arrive early, and carpool if you can. All parking is metered. This is the largest outdoor, public Stations of the Cross in San Diego. It is a strong public witness for our faith and for the sanctity of life. Please pass this along to your family and friends.
See the photos below from previous years.
God bless,
Roger Lopez
Helpers of God’s Precious Infants San Diego
I didn’t like it when left-leaning Catholics in the Bay Area would celebrate a “nuclear disarmament” Stations of the Cross and drive to Lawrence Livermore Lab to protest. I don’t like it when right-leaning Catholics in San Diego celebrate a “pro-life” Stations of the Cross as a public demonstration.
Keep your politics out of the faith and its devotions and its high holy days.
Attend Good Friday liturgy at a parish. Adore the Cross. Be humble and silent instead of sanctimoniously condescending and in-your-face about whatever your pet political issues are. These sorts of demonstrations are mostly about the participants wanting to feel good about themselves.
By that standard, Catholics should not have voiced any opposition to the brutality of Nazism and Communism. Understood.
It depends on how it is done but it is based on “What you do to the least of My brethren, you do to Me.”
Can’t be as bad as the patriotic rosary.