Another pretty hectic day. Today after daily mass, we joined up with a new member, Jenna. She will be with us till Friday. After mass and breakfast today, we setup to walk towards downtown Calgary. We set out as a team of 7 because we were heading into the big city. Before we set out to walk we went to pray at the abortion mill in Kensington. No sooner than 10 minutes that we gathered beside the abortion mill, we were approached by the cops. They were called in because of a complaint from the clinic. It was a great thing that the cops came because they clarified exactly what the rules were according to a court order. They are very strict with praying and demonstrating outside abortion clinics. People have got arrested for this. We were told the specific areas that we could pray and demonstrate. We noticed atleast 6 people pull in to the abortion clinic in our short stay of 2 hours. It was good to gather in numbers and pray for the unborn. After praying we set out to walk from where we stopped. There was heavy rain. It was cold and there was a lot of wing. But this did not stop in. We walked as a group of 6 down the highways heading into downtown Calgary. We did not meet a single rejection on the highway. There were many honks of approvals and thumbs up which was good to see. In the end, we walked a mere 10 km, but all of us were soaked to the core, and cold! We were scheduled to go to Greg Woodard's family's house for dinner. Now I was told that my former spiritual director Fr. Fernando Mignone was going to be there. However, it was a huge surprise to also see Mr. Turner, my drama teacher from the seminary. It really is a small world. We had a great gathering and talk about travel, religion and art. After a healthy lunch of burritos we are now set for the night walk. We recruited yet another member temporarily - Greg Woodard, who will be walking with us tonight. Should be fun. Got to go for the night walk. Till next time - Pray hard for the unborn!
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Hey Dan! Nice to hear from you.....We prayed beside the childrens park right accross the road from the Kensington clinic. A maximum of four of us were allowed to go up and down the sidewalk beside the park. We were only allowed to walk the length of the park (on the side of the clinic). The length we were allowed to walk was about 25 meters. They told us not to have any signs, but a lady who lived right accross the road said she had been walking with signs before and the cops did not stop her. The rest of us were in the soccer fields (where the picture is taken). We were not allowed to be in the park playing area for fear that we might influence the children (even though there were no children in the park the entire 2 hours that we were there!).
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