Mission: To unite all Catholic Pro-Life individuals, families, organizations and all lay associations such as: The Knights of Columbus, Holy Name Society, Sodality of Our Lady, Blue Army, Legion of Mary, Marian Cenacles, Secular Third Orders, and all Home School, Christian Youth and College Organizations to participate in Operation Holy Presence, whose expressed goal is to tour the U.S. Capitol Building, visit our elected officials at the U.S. Capitol Complex, and to present them with a signed petition to support the reversal of Roe v. Wade and defend the dignity of all human life from the moment of conception until natural death as another step forward in ending all legalized abortion.

First and foremost, we encourage your support for the annual March for Life. Next, we urge all pro-life supporters (youth should be encouraged regardless of voting age) to participate in Operation Holy Presence by organizing a field trip to Washington, D.C. on another date to visit and tour our beautiful U.S. Capitol Building while Congress is in session as an advocate for life. In addition to experiencing the interior splendor of the Capitol Building through the eyes of faith, these field trips will provide an important and interesting Civics Lesson for future leaders of America, further increasing a pro-life presence in Washington, D.C. on a day-by-day basis. 

All participants in Operation Holy Presence are asked to sign the Visitors Petition (pdf or doc) urging our Congressmen and Senators to support the reversal of Roe v. Wade and defend the dignity of all human life from the moment of conception until natural death.  Participants are also requested to sign an official Pledge Form (pdf or doc) with a respectful understanding that they will remain quiet in an organized Christ-like manner with generosity of heart and a tenderness of spirit either while waiting outside or touring the inside of the Capitol Building. Petitions are to be delivered to the offices of their respective Congressmen and Senators which are located within the Capitol Complex. We suggest that participants in Operation Holy Presence refrain from public prayer or displaying any signs or banners while waiting outside or while touring the inside of the buildings. However, wearing shirts, hats, jackets and badges identifying your group and private prayer is encouraged.

Most importantly, we request that you do not visit any other governing site on this trip, keeping in mind the goal for pro-life supporters to be in and out of the Capitol area in an expedient fashion. However, there are many other wonderful points of interest located in and around our nation's Capital for all to view. We suggest that you set time aside to visit the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for Holy Mass and meals. The telephone number to the National Shrine is 1-202-526-8300.

Congress is in session throughout the year; however recess varies according to holidays, national elections and national emergencies. The telephone number to the Capitol switchboard (1-202-224-3121) will provide tour information, the current Congressional schedule, and specific office locations of your Congressmen and Senators.

A letter from the Pope dated February 20, 1999 to Cardinal William Henry Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore and Chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee for Pro-life activities states, "All pro-life action must be both educational and political. There must be a thorough catechesis on the Gospel of Life at all levels of the Catholic community. Catholics imbibe much of their surrounding culture, and therefore this catechesis needs to challenge the prevailing culture at those points where human dignity and rights are threatened. Such a catechesis has as its goal that shift of perception and a change of heart which accompany true conversion (cf. Eph 4:23). The call to conversion must ring out in your homes, in your parishes and in your schools, with complete confidence that the Church's teaching about the inviolability of life is deeply in tune with both right reason and the deepest longings of the human heart. This educational effort will increasingly open the way for Catholics to exercise a positive public influence as citizens of their country, without false appeals to the separation of Church and State in a way that consigns the Christian vision of human dignity to the realm of private belief. The choice in favour of life is not a private option but a basic demand of a just and moral society."

In addition to the Holy Father, we wish to thank every devoted lay person, priest, deacon and religious and all our faithful pro-life leaders, Cardinals and Bishops involved in earnest in this pious movement to end the unimaginable crimes against human life. God is with us.

Let us collaborate with Our Lady, our Mother and Queen of all virtues in giving glory to God by modeling Christ. And, let us pray always and say the holy rosary with confidence as we work together as a country for the support and the success of Operation Holy Presence as another means of bringing to conclusion the culture of death. 

Let us go now in peace to love and serve the Lord. 

O’Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. 

God Bless America