Making the Rounds – Moving Video of Choir Singing For Holy Innocents in Illinois State Capitol (From 2017)

(LifeSiteNews) — A video of young pro-lifers singing a beautiful lullaby at the Illinois state capitol has resurfaced while state legislators debate current bills that would legalize abortion until the moment of birth.

Members of the choir of St. John Cantius — a parish in the Archdiocese of Chicago that seeks to preserve the beauty of traditional liturgy and sacred music — joined with Crusaders for Life in 2017 to sing the “Coventry Carol,” which stems from a medieval mystery play that depicts the massacre of the Holy Innocents by the soldiers of King Herod, as depicted in the Gospel of St. Matthew. In the video, the young activists are shown wearing yellow shirts and swaying arm in arm in the impressive rotunda of the State House in Springfield, where state legislators meet. Their voices reverberated up and down the space over which soared the cupula of the capitol building.

A spokesperson for St. John Cantius Parish in Chicago affirmed that the video was recorded in 2017 at a rally in support of the dignity of unborn babies. The video was produced by Crusaders for Life, a pro-life group which had its beginnings among young St. John Cantius parishioners and has since expanded elsewhere in Illinois and to Michigan. It was during a Midwest tour in 2017 that the young activists and choristers sang at the Illinois state capitol. The Crusaders have made the 16th-century carol their hallmark.

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h/t In Remembrance