The Knights of Columbus have announced that the once-annual celebration of the Pro Vita (For Life) Mass will return on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 5 p.m. at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn. The event has not been held in the past several years. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will be the celebrant.
Co-sponsored by the Kings and Queens County Conferences of the Knights of Columbus, it will honor two lay people with the Bishop Thomas V. Daily Pro Vita Award and one priest with the Father Michael J. McGivney Medal for Life.
This is good news.
Light to a darkened world. Light in the dark of winter. Light.
Would it not be wonderful if everyone emerging from the Cathedral had a flashlight and shone it into the night for a time?
If everyone stood quietly shining light into the darkness for a time and saying nothing except as passersby might inquire: Why?
For life, we could say, for the sacredness and blessedness of life, God’s gift.
For a good society in which men do not destroy life, and old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit.
We would recall a time when the founding generation proposed a constitution for themselves and their posterity.