Pascagoula Students Back from March for Life

It’s back to the books for the group of Catholic high school students from Pascagoula after traveling to Washington D.C. to take part in Friday’s National March for Life event.
A blizzard stopped them last year, but this year Resurrection Catholic High School Ministry Director Edgar Hernandez succeeded in bringing nearly 50 students to the National March for Life Rally in Washington, D.C. “It was amazing to see about 500,000 people get together and stand up and march for life.”
It was a twenty hour bus ride to Washington, D.C. and twenty hours on the bus back to the Coast, 40 hours of travel was well worth it.
The students are back in class at Resurrection High School in Pascagoula. It was high school junior Shadderian Litt’s first time at the national march. Litt was amazed at all the marchers of different religions coming together. “It was a great experience to see a group of people gathered together to stand up for one thing.”
That one thing was life. One student said,“Life is important and we need to stand up for what we believe in.”
The students joined hundreds of thousands of those marching against 1973’s law legalizing abortion. Hernandez says they weren’t there to condemn anyone who thought differently. “We also prayed for healing for those who have decided to choose to have an abortion.”
Students say they took what they learned in school and what they were taught in mass all the way to Washington. They also leaned some new things while they were there. One student said, “I learned that you should always stand up for what you believe in no matter what the costs are.”
“I learned that people are always going to doubt you and people are always going to stop you by saying negative things to stop you from what you believe in.”
And no matter what: “Nothing should stop you from giving the right message out.”