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CV NEWS FEED// Father Gregory Pine of the podcast “Pints with Aquinas” is set to speak at Life Fest — a new merged event preceding the National March for Life and co-hosted by the Sisters for Life, the Knights of Columbus, and the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia.
Life Fest will take place Jan. 23-24 at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia. Thursday night will feature praise and worship, and Mass will be celebrated Friday morning, with the event ending before the March for Life begins in Washington, D.C.
Musician Matt Maher is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech Jan. 23, with Fr. Pine delivering the keynote speech the next day. Other performances include the bands We are Messengers and Scythian.
The event will also include an opportunity to venerate first-class relics of Pope St. John Paul II, Blessed Carlo Acutis, Blessed Michael McGivney, and the beatified Ulma family, a Polish family that was martyred for sheltering Jews during World War II.
As CatholicVote previously reported, this year’s event is a combination of Life Fest, hosted by the Sisters for Life and Knights of Columbus for the past three years, and the Diocese of Arlington’s Life is Very Good Rally, which the Diocese has hosted for young people for the past 12 years.
“We’re living in a time where the goodness of the human person is questioned,” said Sister Marie Veritas of the Sisters of Life. “Every human heart needs to know: I am good; I am important; I am irreplaceable. Every woman who is pregnant needs to know that she is not alone.”
Those interested can register here.
