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Crusaders for Life hold Mardi Gras bash
Teresa Mull
Issue date: 9/30/08 Section: News
The celebration of Mardi Gras and the 40 days of prayer and fasting that follow it in anticipation of Easter is a wonderful spiritual experience, and doing it more than once a year can only be a good thing. It was in this frame of mind that members of the Crusaders for Life club gathered on the Cap Bar patio from 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesday night amid colorful balloons and ribbons and surrounding a table laden with cookies, cake, ice cream and all the fixings.
CFL's Fat Tuesday festivities marked the kick-off of 40 Days for Life, a nationwide, ecumenical campaign that stresses prayer, fasting, community outreach and constant vigil for the pro-life effort throughout the 40 days that lead up to the presidential election. 40 Days for Life is a recurring event, and so the motivation behind CFL's Mardi Gras party was to raise campus awareness for the national campaign., "We just want to let people know about it on campus," club president Bridger Allen said. "We hope that ice cream helps it register a little better."
Food must be the best way to a UD student's heart, and it was evident that the enthusiasm for the pro-life mission did not wane as the party went on. Spontaneous shouts of "Yay babies!" could be heard reverberating from the Capp Bar patio well into the night.
Junior Brock Broussard attended the event and, with empty ice cream bowl in hand, shared his plans for attending the peaceful, non-graphic pro-life demonstration to take place on MacArthur Boulevard on Oct. 5. "You see people reacting," he said, "and you know how they feel toward our efforts of spreading the pro-life message."
The life-chain is just one of several events the industrious CFL club has planned for the next 40 days. Diapers are being collected in campus ministry throughout the whole month of October for White Rose, a local crisis pregnancy center. Every Thursday night in the Church of the Incarnation, a pro-life rosary will be said, starting at 8 p.m.
CFL's Fat Tuesday festivities marked the kick-off of 40 Days for Life, a nationwide, ecumenical campaign that stresses prayer, fasting, community outreach and constant vigil for the pro-life effort throughout the 40 days that lead up to the presidential election. 40 Days for Life is a recurring event, and so the motivation behind CFL's Mardi Gras party was to raise campus awareness for the national campaign., "We just want to let people know about it on campus," club president Bridger Allen said. "We hope that ice cream helps it register a little better."
Food must be the best way to a UD student's heart, and it was evident that the enthusiasm for the pro-life mission did not wane as the party went on. Spontaneous shouts of "Yay babies!" could be heard reverberating from the Capp Bar patio well into the night.
Junior Brock Broussard attended the event and, with empty ice cream bowl in hand, shared his plans for attending the peaceful, non-graphic pro-life demonstration to take place on MacArthur Boulevard on Oct. 5. "You see people reacting," he said, "and you know how they feel toward our efforts of spreading the pro-life message."
The life-chain is just one of several events the industrious CFL club has planned for the next 40 days. Diapers are being collected in campus ministry throughout the whole month of October for White Rose, a local crisis pregnancy center. Every Thursday night in the Church of the Incarnation, a pro-life rosary will be said, starting at 8 p.m.
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