Respect Life Sunday

On Respect Life Sunday, Bishop James F. Checchio, along with parishioners and Immaculata High School students, gathered at Immaculate Conception Parish, Somerville, to give witness to life at the annual Life Chain, a peaceful and prayerful public witness of pro-life individuals standing for 90 minutes praying for the nation and for an end to abortion. Life Chains, at locations across the Diocese, stood as a visual statement of solidarity by participants of all faiths, especially the Christian community, that abortion kills children and that the Church supports the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception until natural death. Since 1987, believers have gathered nationwide on the first Sunday of every October, Respect Life Month, to prayerfully stand for Life.