Morgan Velez ’16<\/p>\n
Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n Each year the Diocese of Saginaw takes six to eight buses down to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life.\u00a0 This one-day event on January 22nd is a peaceful march in front of the Capitol building that demonstrates\u00a0an effort\u00a0to overturn the decision that legalized abortion in the 1973 trial, Roe v. Wade.\u00a0 Marchers carry signs, say prayers, and recite chants while many speakers tell their story and share their experiences.\u00a0 Videos on the side of the march reveal the horrors of abortion and though sad, motivate those who stand for life to pursue the cause.<\/p>\n This year, due to inclement weather and large amounts of snow, the Diocese of Saginaw decided not to attend the march.\u00a0 They canceled plans one day before their buses were scheduled to leave and although the decision was disappointing, many believe that it was\u00a0the smart thing to do, especially after hearing reports that many buses had been stranded after the Pennsylvania\u00a0turnpike was closed.\u00a0 Those stranded prayed and sang\u00a0despite the weather\u00a0and also held a mass on the side of the road with an altar built from snow.\u00a0 Read more and see pictures from those events here.<\/a><\/p>\n Nouvel students also recognized the day by holding an all-school prayer in the PAC and then were led by the Spirit Cross out for a brief march in front of the school.\u00a0 Similar to the march in Washington, students chanted, prayed, and carried signs to demonstrate their respect for life.\u00a0 Meals that had been prepared for the diocese travelers were also put to good use when Nouvel sophomores (who were supposed to go on the trip) spent the second half of their day delivering them to charities such as the Rescue Missions in both Saginaw and Bay City, Hidden Harvest, and the East Side Soup Kitchen.\u00a0 Sophomores returned to Nouvel to watch informative videos that they would have viewed on the drive to Washington.\u00a0 For a link to the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw’s Facebook page, and more information on the Nouvel students’ activities that day, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Although Nouvel sophomores were unable to experience the march and witness the massive number of people who support life, a silver lining was found in the mini-march and generosity of the students that day.\u00a0 The spirit of the march and respect for life did not go unnoticed at NCC.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Morgan Velez ’16 Staff Writer Each year the Diocese of Saginaw takes six to eight buses down to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life.\u00a0 This one-day event on January 22nd is a peaceful march in front of the Capitol building that demonstrates\u00a0an effort\u00a0to overturn the decision that legalized abortion in the 1973 trial, Roe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}