March for Life 2024

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We’re heading to the Capitol!

Join youth and young adults from around the state for a pilgrimage to South Dakota’s State Capitol Rotunda in Pierre to participate in the March for Life on Sunday, January 28, 2024.

Our pilgrimage will kick off the morning of the 28th and end that evening.

Featuring invited guest speaker Governor Kristi Noem, keynote speaker Bishop DeGrood, student pro life essay winners from across the state, and music by The Bruse Family.

The pilgrimage is open to all high school and college-age students.

Cost will include travel fees, meals, and an unforgettable experience witnessing to the sanctity of life.

Program Details and Costs

The program is free to all. Please register using the link below to RSVP for the dinner or traveling with the bus.
All times in Pierre are listed as Central Standard Time Zone

7am MST  – Optional bus ride from Rapid City to Pierre ($35)

12pm CST – CST March at the state capital

2pm CST – Hour of Reflection with SD Right to Life

3-4pm CST – Adoration at St. John the Evangelist in Fort Pierre

4pm CST – Sunday Mass

5pm CST – Dinner hosted by the Fort Pierre Knights of Columbus

6pm CST – Bus riders depart for Rapid City

Register to join the diocesan events!

“In seeking the deepest roots of the struggle between the ‘culture of life’ and the ‘culture of death’, we have to go to the heart of the tragedy being experienced by modern man: the eclipse of the sense of God and of man, typical of a social and cultural climate dominated by secularism, which, with its ubiquitous tentacles, succeeds at times in putting Christian communities themselves to the test. Those who allow themselves to be influenced by this climate easily fall into a sad vicious circle: when the sense of God is lost, there is also a tendency to lose the sense of man, of his dignity and his life; in turn, the systematic violation of the moral law, especially in the serious matter of respect for human life and its dignity, produces a kind of progressive darkening of the capacity to discern God’s living and saving presence.”