Good afternoon. I went to say a very special thank you for the incredible music i literally cannot see the end of you out there. Thank you i am honored to be the president of the march for life you are an easy crowd and on behalf of the board and the whole march for life team and would like to welcome you to the 45th annual march for life spee17 you are part of the biggest human rights demonstration in the world we will begin as we welcome to the stage to lead us in the pledge of allegiance just from the knights of columbus from the Catholic University of america. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much now i am delighted to introduce you to mechanic who is a ninth Grade Student traveling from massachusetts lead us in the National Anthem tee5 great job and i cannot each year we are grateful for the witness of the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States and continuing in this i am happy to welcome to the podium leading a delegation representing the assembly of the order and or the orthodox bishops of the United States. Joining by many other orthodox and Roman Catholic bishops to offer the opening prayer [applause] i dont come here to represent an ideology but to put forth a new thought. I am not here to disclose a new insight i dont even come here to speak for myself but to speak out the gospel for the one who died for the light of the world all our communion here today and so together with my brothers join me to offer a prayer to the one who died for the life of the world. Oh Lord Jesus Christ we know all things of all people to share a kinship and oneness that surpasses our understanding to have one life and one life only for everything that breeze and exist when you came into the world you didnt just became human you check on this one life to clothe yourself in it making seamless as all violence of any kind that will take place many forms execution and wars genocide oppression, slavery and hatred of any kind but it is all of one in the same and that is selflove. To understand violence that all violence of all kinds is a sin but every human being is in your image and they find infinite value in you regardless of our sins. Lord show us there is only one source and one victory to the sacrificial love. We will contradict the persecuted persecute not. Be crucified but crucify not be wrong but wrong not be slandered. Have clemency. Justice does not belong to the christian way of life weep with them and rebuke no man revile no man my brothers and sisters be prolife and with christ dying for the whole world and anything that injures life under any circumstances. Let us be prolife that to undo any injury done to any creature to the glory of almighty god