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FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, August 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - College students are not exactly renowned for their ability to wake up at the crack of dawn, especially on Saturday mornings, when they typically catch up on a week's lost sleep and recover from a hard night of partying the night before. Yet, at one small college in Virginia, for almost three decades now, students have woken up as early as 6:30am every single Saturday morning when school is in session, to attend 7:00 Mass and then travel the hour and fifteen minutes to the Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington D.C. Rain, shine, snow, sleet, or hail, dozens of students from Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia are found at the Clinic by 9:00 Saturday morning, praying and counseling women who have appointments to abort their unborn children. Only in the most extreme weather, when it has been absolutely impossible to make the trip into D.C., have the students canceled this weekly love effort.
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And indeed, said Kujawski, Shield of Roses has, by all accounts, saved more than a few lives. In the last several years alone, due to the direct efforts of the group's counselors, at least several women have turned away from Planned Parenthood, and decided not to have abortions. And while the students may never know the unseen successes of their efforts, they are confident that they are there, their hidden victories.
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Longtime members of Shield have a host of stories about "saves," and about some of the more dramatic moments in the lives of Shield members, including a trip that many of the members took to Florida to the hospice where Terri Schiavo was living. The students made the 16-hour trip, each way, in a single weekend, to join other Terri supporters in the weeks leading up to her court-ordered execution. "That was an incredible weekend," says Bodoh. "We had to skip classes and push back midterms to go, but just the chance to be there and to do something, even if it was only praying, was something that we could not pass up."
When did those students stand in front of Woodside in Pinellas Park with a banner no less?
#153 — 8mm - This is awesome!! I will remember them when I am out there at PP praying every morning, M-F. It will help me know I am not alone. I will also remember them when I am sieging PP on Saturdays with BOUND4LIFE from 11-1! HOW COOL! Thanks for sharing it. WOOOHOOOOO Christendom College students!!