Captions:
1. Seminarians cook the fish and fixings
and serve them, too, at the annual dinner
to defend the unborn.
2. The Dinner for Life filled the gymnasium once again with over four hundred
hungry and generous attendees.
3. The author joins speaker Louis Brown,
lawyer and former political activist. Mr.
Brown now helps to provide health care
options to organizations that are exempt
from the Affordable Health Care Act.
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DINNER DRAWS
HU N D REDS
IN SU PPO RT O F THE UNB OR N
Patrick Setto
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his year marked the seventh annual Dinner for Life
here at Sacred Heart, where over sixty seminarians
came together to plan, cook, and host a dinner to fundraise
for a local pro-life organization. As every year, we asked the
Lord to reveal to us the pro-life organization that was most
in need of help and that he personally wanted us to sponsor.
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Why not mark your calendar
and attend the next Dinner
for Life? It’s always held at the
seminary on the first Friday of
February.
After much prayer and research, we
discovered that there were two locations
of the Imago Dei Pregnancy Center—at
Holy Redeemer and St. Cecelia parishes
in Detroit—that were newer and in need
of financial help. Preparation for the
dinner consisted of a committee of eight
seminarians who met five months in
advance to plan the dinner.
The dinner took place on Friday, February
5, attended by around four hundred guests
who have a heart for the pro-life cause. It
began with a beautiful Mass with Bishop
Michael Byrnes, auxiliary bishop of Detroit
and former vice rector of the seminary, as
the celebrant. The large team of seminarians
who prepared a fish and pasta meal not only
cooked the food but also served it.
The keynote speaker for the dinner,
Louis Brown, director of CURO Catholic
Health Care Ministry and Christ Medicus
Foundation, gave a passionate witness of
his journey of conversion to becoming
the right-to-life advocate that he is today.
He strongly reminded the attendees of the
moral obligation we have as Catholics to
defend the unborn.
The night ended with a raffle in which
many guests walked away with great gifts
such as iPads, golf bags, religious items,
spiritual books, and many other items.
Overall, the attendees of the Dinner for
Life left deeply moved and inspired for the
cause of the unborn.
Patrick Setto is a third-year theologian studying for
the Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle.