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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
VANCOUVER, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The third Canadian Crossroads walk for life got off to a wet start on Monday May 24. The 6 walkers - 4 seminarians from Christ the King in Vancouver B.C., and 2 students from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom in Barry’s Bay, Ontario - went to Mass and then drove in the rain out to the very edge of Vancouver, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. They dipped their hands and feet in the ocean, then turned their faces toward Ottawa and began their 5,000-kilometer trek.
Crossroads was founded in 1994 by Steve Sanborn, a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville. The initiative was a response to John Paul II’s call to take an active role in the pro-life movement in order to establish a Culture of Life. The U.S. walk covers three different routes (North, Central, and South), starting from Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and converges in Washington D.C. for a closing rally. The Canadian and American walks start and end on the same dates.
Brother Paul, a seminarian and the Canadian walk leader, has prepared the group well for the trials and challenges they will face, telling them in the pre-walk briefing that it was going to be hard. “Yet, we will do all in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and this knowledge will make all suffering bearable, even joyous, for we will be uniting our suffering to that of Christ on the cross for the saving of the unborn and the conversion of our country. How could we possibly spend a better summer?”
Jonathan Baker, one of the student walkers, remarked that there are 2 Michaels, 2 Jonathans, and 2 Pauls in the group. “You can’t help but think that there must be some reason for this,” he said.
The six walkers are split into two groups, with one Paul, one Jonathan, and one Michael in each. “We didn’t plan it this way,” Baker noted. “Again, a sign of God’s providence, I’m sure.”
The group will have walkers on the road 24 hours a day, with 3 people on the day shift and 3 on the night. “Since there are only six of us each crew will have to walk a minimum of fifty kilometers a day, and as a whole we will cover approximately one hundred kilometers every 24 hours.”
Each day begins with Mass after which the day crew start their walk.
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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
VANCOUVER, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The third Canadian Crossroads walk for life got off to a wet start on Monday May 24. The 6 walkers - 4 seminarians from Christ the King in Vancouver B.C., and 2 students from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom in Barry’s Bay, Ontario - went to Mass and then drove in the rain out to the very edge of Vancouver, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. They dipped their hands and feet in the ocean, then turned their faces toward Ottawa and began their 5,000-kilometer trek.
Crossroads was founded in 1994 by Steve Sanborn, a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville. The initiative was a response to John Paul II’s call to take an active role in the pro-life movement in order to establish a Culture of Life. The U.S. walk covers three different routes (North, Central, and South), starting from Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and converges in Washington D.C. for a closing rally. The Canadian and American walks start and end on the same dates.
Brother Paul, a seminarian and the Canadian walk leader, has prepared the group well for the trials and challenges they will face, telling them in the pre-walk briefing that it was going to be hard. “Yet, we will do all in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and this knowledge will make all suffering bearable, even joyous, for we will be uniting our suffering to that of Christ on the cross for the saving of the unborn and the conversion of our country. How could we possibly spend a better summer?”
Jonathan Baker, one of the student walkers, remarked that there are 2 Michaels, 2 Jonathans, and 2 Pauls in the group. “You can’t help but think that there must be some reason for this,” he said.
The six walkers are split into two groups, with one Paul, one Jonathan, and one Michael in each. “We didn’t plan it this way,” Baker noted. “Again, a sign of God’s providence, I’m sure.”
The group will have walkers on the road 24 hours a day, with 3 people on the day shift and 3 on the night. “Since there are only six of us each crew will have to walk a minimum of fifty kilometers a day, and as a whole we will cover approximately one hundred kilometers every 24 hours.”
Each day begins with Mass after which the day crew start their walk.
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jun/10060907.html