Even with the normal crowds of half a million or more, the March for Life almost never gets much coverage from the left-leaning media. With a major snow storm predicted to hit DC right at the time of the March, this year’s March was one of the smallest, only a couple hundred thousand (I know… not so small, right?), and thus got almost no coverage again. That is…until… until a bunch of buses on their way home got stuck for 22 hours on the Pennsylvania turnpike.
Not wanting to go a day without the Eucharist, students from these buses got out and…get this… built an altar out of snow and celebrated Mass with several hundred people on the side of the frozen turnpike. Now medial started covering this. Almost in spite of themselves, they had to report that all these people were coming from the March for Life in DC. The March got more coverage this year than any year I can remember.
This is the way God words. He takes what looks like a huge disappointment, and turns it into a great victory. Today’s homily points out some of the many ways that God did this in the past week. May we all take spiritual joy and confidence from these days, knowing that we win in the end despite whatever obstacles Satan thrown in our way.