Lying down for life
July 29, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.
A bell would ring throughout the school every 15 minutes, and another black-clad Trenton Catholic Academy student would appear, sitting in class and moving through the hallways without making a sound. For five hours the bells tolled, until finally the 20 participating students gathered in a hallway outside the school chapel. There they lay motionless on the floor underneath crosses reading RIP.
The activity held Feb. 2 in TCA’s Upper School demonstrated the numbers of aborted babies in America. Each student represented 70 babies aborted ever 15 minutes, totaling 1,400 over the course of the five-hour activity. Many of the same students also joined in the March for Life rallies in Washington, D.C. and at the State House in Trenton on Jan. 23.
“I participated because I don’t agree with abortion,” said junior Rebecca Healy. “Students were really curious about what was going on. When they found out, they wished that they had been able to participate. Having 20 students be silent in a small school has a huge impact on classes.
“The whole activity was very stark and unsettling,” Healy continued, “which was exactly the point that we were trying to make.”
The “Right-to-Life activity was just one of many in TCA’s Upper School during Catholic Schools Week. Others included a Mass celebrated by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M.; a prayer service; a “Mr. TCA” contest, and a dress-down day.
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A bell would ring throughout the school every 15 minutes, and another black-clad Trenton Catholic Academy student would appear, sitting in class and moving through the hallways without making a sound. For five hours the bells tolled, until finally the 20 participating students gathered in a hallway outside the school chapel. There they lay motionless on the floor underneath crosses reading RIP.
The activity held Feb. 2 in TCA’s Upper School demonstrated the numbers of aborted babies in America. Each student represented 70 babies aborted ever 15 minutes, totaling 1,400 over the course of the five-hour activity. Many of the same students also joined in the March for Life rallies in Washington, D.C. and at the State House in Trenton on Jan. 23.
“I participated because I don’t agree with abortion,” said junior Rebecca Healy. “Students were really curious about what was going on. When they found out, they wished that they had been able to participate. Having 20 students be silent in a small school has a huge impact on classes.
“The whole activity was very stark and unsettling,” Healy continued, “which was exactly the point that we were trying to make.”
The “Right-to-Life activity was just one of many in TCA’s Upper School during Catholic Schools Week. Others included a Mass celebrated by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M.; a prayer service; a “Mr. TCA” contest, and a dress-down day.
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