September 20, 2025 - Interfaith Prayer March to the Great Lakes Naval Base

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DATE: Saturday, September 20, 2025

TIME: 1 PM

PLEASE REGISTER FOR MEETING LOCATION

Event Schedule:

  • 1 pm — Gather at meeting place, please register for the location

  • 2 PM — March begins

  • 3 PM — Arrive at the Great Lakes Naval Base (901 Martin Luther King Jr Drive)

    We recommend you plan a carpool, or for the METRA: Take the UP-N to Great Lakes. Schedules here.

Continuing the momentum of our People’s Mass for Justice + Peace on Saturday, September 13, we will return to the Great Lakes Naval Base—this time joining with people of many faiths who share our commitment to solidarity and liberation. We invite you to join CSPL and our partners in prayerful, peaceful unity, to stand against ICE and Militarization, and to proclaim liberation!

Please RSVP to receive the exact meeting location.

Message ideas for your signs:

  • Pray. Protest. Protect Immigrants.

  • Holy Fire Melts ICE-y Hearts

  • “God has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly.” - Luke 1:52

  • Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Not the Deporters

  • “You shall love the foreigner as yourself; for you too were once foreigners…” - Leviticus 19:34

  • “Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the resident alien or the poor; do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.” - Zechariah 7:9-10

  • “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me.” - Matthew 25:35

  • Human Rights have no borders

  • The Holy Family were refugees

  • “Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women, and men who leave or are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more.” - Pope Francis

  • “The Church without frontiers, Mother to all, spreads throughout the world a culture of acceptance and solidarity, in which no one is seen as useless, out of place, or disposable.” - Pope Francis

  • Indeed, migrants demonstrate this daily through their resilience and trust in God, as they face adversity while seeking a future in which they glimpse that integral human development and happiness are possible - Pope Leo XIV

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