Campus Notes

A professor from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy in Barry’s Bay, Ontario, is joining eight of his former OLSWA students in this summer’s Crossroads walk across Canada, which is being led by one of the students, according to a Life Site News report. 

John Paul Meenan, M.Sc., M.Th., a member of the Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academic Senate, is joining the pro-life walkers who are ”stopping to speak in churches and praying in front of abortion centres along the way to spread the pro-life message to all who will hear.”

From the Life Site News report:

LifeSiteNews will be following Crossroads Canada throughout their walk and we will get to know these 11 apostles for life and what motivates them to sacrifice themselves and their summer for life.

The walkers carry with them a book of prayer intentions and have asked that if there are any prayer intentions for them to ‘carry’ they be sent to walk leader Michael Hayden through LifeSiteNews (click here).

While many can envision the motivations that would drive college youth to undertake a cross-Canada walk for life, what about a professor? Here’s John Paul Meenan’s explanation:

In the midst of our end of year marking, and preparing for graduation at the end of May, I was offered a ride in the Crossroads RV with six other guys (all of them my students) across the U.S. of A.  Well, I thought, I always wanted to see the northern U.S., so I hopped in.  The trip leader, Mike Hayden, also invited me to do part of the walk across Canada once we reached Vancouver, and, I thought again, why not?  More public witness to abortion is needed:  Since the Supreme Court decision of 1988, Canada is the only western nation with no laws governing abortion.  As a grave crime against God and man (particularly the little men and women in the womb), we need to keep abortion in the public eye, at least so people consider the implications of allowing our unborn children to be killed.  The quiet yet visible, joyous yet sacrificial, mission of Crossroads appeals to me, and seems in line with John Paul II’s call for us to witness to the Gospel of Life.  Daily Mass, prayer, rosaries, good discussions, lots of exercise, fresh air, all for the greatest of causes; who would not want to join the walk at some point?  For every little inconvenience, every minute of lost sleep, every tired muscle, every yell of disapproval, we need just recall Our Lord’s promise:  “What you do for the least of these little ones, you do for me.”

…The Canada Crossroads walkers are blogging their adventures here.

Read the rest of this report at Life Site News.

Our Lady seat of Wisdom Academy is included in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College for its strong Catholic identity.  You can read OLSWA’s profile here.