HICKORY — A group from St. Aloysius Church’s Knights of Columbus Council 6451 spent the morning of Oct. 2 in prayer and witness outside the church’s St. Sebastian Chapel, turning the grassy hill next to the chapel into a memorial for the unborn.
Each of the small white crosses in the outdoor display represents five of the 3,000 innocent lives lost to abortion each day in the United States.
St. Aloysius Church is among many parishes in the Diocese of Charlotte that erect this sobering memorial each October for Respect Life Month.
The Knights of Council 6451, along with others in the Hickory community, have approached this annual event over the past 20 years with a grim sense of the gravity of the situation, but also with the hope coming from the proclamation of the message of the sanctity of life.
During their work to build the memorial, the Knights pray that those in the position of making decisions about abortion will understand the unnecessarily horrific burden of sin being taken on daily in this country.
(During the time it probably took to read this information, three lives were ended, three futures destroyed, and the burden of sin taken on by all involved through abortion.)
— Photos provided by Bryan Clark
