The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is promoting a Jan. 22 Mass for Life/Youth Concert to be held in the district’s Verizon Center. They’re expecting 20,000 people, according to archdiocesan communications director Susan Gibbs.
More than 20,000 Catholic teens and young adults from around the United States will pack the Verizon Center for a Youth Concert and Mass for Life on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade:
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Christian recording artists and composers Steve Angrisano, Matt Maher and ValLimar Jansen will get the crowd onto its feet during the concert while nearly 100 priests will hear confessions in the Acela Club Restaurant.
Following the concert, Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl will be joined by cardinals, bishops and hundreds of priests from around the United States as they lead the crowd in Mass. The homilist will be Reverend Scott Woods from Assumption Catholic Church in Southeast Washington, DC.
Following the Mass, many of the bishops and the youth will participate in the National Rally and March for Life, which starts at noon on the National Mall.
Archbishop Wuerl also will participate in the annual Vigil Mass for Life, Sunday, January 21, 8:00 p.m., Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Avenue, NE, Washington, DC.
