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36th Annual March for Life

with the Lay Order of St. Michael

               On Thursday, January 22, 2009, a busload of pilgrims from St Michael's World Apostolate joined the throngs in Washington, D.C. in defense of human life from conception to natural death.

You couldn't ask for a better day in January for a mass demonstration: a clear sunny day with the temperature in the 50s ºF. Rosaries of reparation in abundance were prayed and thousands of Our Lady's messages were distributed and received well.

 

Rosaries and litanies were prayed en route to the March. Maria Castricum of Budd Lake, N.J.

 

Manny Cortes of The Bronx and his mother, Lucy, of Far Rockaway N.Y.

 

As soon as we got off the bus we had to prepare the powerful and mobile loud speaker system so that thousands of people could participate in the rosaries and singing.

 

The bus organizer, Bill Dykes, LOSM

 
Marching up Constitution Ave
 

About 200,000 people attended the March, one of the biggest ever.

 

As we march, Michael Mangan, President of SMWA (c.), makes the offering. Here's what he read six times during the March:

       At this March for Life, we pray for pro-life success this year at both the state and federal levels and offer public reparation for this unspeakable crime of abortion.

       We boldly stand up today in our nation’s capital and with one voice and prayer we speak out for the voiceless and we say, “Stop the killing of the holy innocents.”

       We openly declare complete opposition to the Freedom of Choice Act, a radical and monstrous bill that, if signed into law, would eliminate all restrictions to abortion and nullify every piece of pro-life legislation enacted since Jan. 1973. We pray that this bill is killed and not the babies.

       Although we are saddened by the tragic and lengthy conflict in Iraq in which over 4,000 U.S. soldiers have died in 6 years - May God rest their souls -- a far bigger and greater war is being waged every day in America on Main St. -- the war on the unborn which claims the lives of 4,000 defenseless babies a day! And over 50 million since 1973 and that’s just the U.S.

       We remember President Obama in our intentions, for his conversion on the issue of the right to life and for all lawmakers, legislators and policy-makers that they seriously take to heart the wise words of Pope John Paul II: “The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights . . . is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right . . . is not defended with maximum determination” (The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World, 1988).

       Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers, pray for us.

       St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in our battle for the unborn.

 
 
Here's most of the troops
 

Some television crews were present. We got a few reports from the Baysiders who saw us on EWTN, the worldwide TV network. Our SMWA banner and white and blue berets stood out amongst the multitude.

 
 

Sarah Cameron, videographer from Brooklyn via England, who studied film in college, captured the whole day on tape. Sarah was recently introduced to the Bayside apparitions -- she was particularly impressed by the miraculous photos -- and had asked if she could join us on the bus and film our pro-life pilgrimage.

 

Getting the Message out en masse, Andrew Stewart of Philadelphia, Penn.

 
Wanda Lucci of Brooklyn, N.Y.
 

(l. to r.) Mary Consoli  of Yardley, Penn., Hitomi and Teresa Valle of Kew Gardens, N.Y., and Marisa Consoli of Yardley, Penn. singing the traditional hymns.

 
James Donohue, LOSM and Vice President of SMWA
 
Michael Bauer of Cape Cod, Mass., filming for SMWA
 
Note the Washington Monument
 

Some devotees reaching out with our brochure, Bayside, The Facts Revealed. Here is Peter Frank, LOSM.

 
 
Michael Lucci of Brooklyn, N.Y.
 
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Madeline Colon of Queens, N.Y., leading a rosary en español
 

By the end of the day, we prayed 13 Rosaries, many litanies, the long exorcism of St. Michael and sung an abundance of beautiful traditional hymns, all in reparation for the slaughter of the Holy Innocents.

 
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The Virgin Mary appears in America

This beautiful story of grace, peace and redemption opened publicly on June 18, 1970 when the Mother of God visited Veronica Lueken on the grounds of the old St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside, New York and later at the Vatican Pavilion site (blessed by Pope Paul VI) in Flushing Meadows Park, New York. Beginning in 1968, St. Theresa the Little Flower prepared Veronica for these Heavenly apparitions.

For 25 years, the Virgin Mary and Her Divine Son would appear to this mother of five children during Rosary Vigils on these sacred grounds until her passing in 1995. Our Lady asked that this Shrine be called “Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers” and that a Sunday Holy Hour offered for the Pope and priests be held.

Over 300 comprehensive messages packed with wisdom and guidance for these latter days were transmitted through this seer named by Heaven, Veronica of the Cross.

Our Lady of the Roses Shrine is under the stewardship of the lay Order of St. Michael (est. 1977), a vibrant community of dedicated, celibate men who have been appointed by Heaven to lead this global mission. Our Lady has prophesied that this lay Order will bring forth the full-fledged religious Order of St. Michael, an order founded on tradition, which will also include a cloistered convent.

Our Lady has also stated that curative waters will erupt and a magnificent basilica will be erected at the original site of St. Robert’s.

The Vigils and Holy Hours continue to this day at the Vatican Pavilion inspired by Our Lord’s promise: “We have made Our home upon these grounds.” Cures and conversions abound and for countless pilgrims, faith and hope have been restored. We invite you to join us.

For a free rose petal blessed by Jesus and Mary with the power of cure and conversion, a Rosary Vigil calendar, and for more information, contact:

St Michael’s World Apostolate
P.O. Box 514 • Bayside, NY 11361
718-359-3908
1-800-345-MARY
toll free orderline 1-888-830-SMWA
http://www.smwa.org

smwa@smwa.org