Community Prayer Vigil and Walk

Join a coalition of public, private and faith-based partners for a one-hour evening prayer vigil on Monday, Dec. 30 to remember the lives lost to homicide this year and plead for an end to violence.

The group will meet at 5:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Monastery Parish at 3801 Old Frederick Road in Baltimore’s Irvington neighborhood, and then walk in prayer by candlelight to My Brother’s Keeper, less than half a mile away. The names of the 202 homicide victims will be read along the 10- to 15-minute walk followed by hot chocolate and fellowship at the Catholic Charities resource center.

The prayer walk is an extension of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Grief Ministry that serves the families of homicide victims in the city through partnerships with the Baltimore Police Department and Roberta’s House, a nonprofit family grief support center. The event is being held in partnership with Health By Southwest, a peacebuilding coalition in Southwest Baltimore that includes the Archdiocese, Catholic Charities, Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital, My Brother’s Keeper, St. Joseph’s Monastery Parish and Mount Saint Joseph High School.