We're a voiceless! Support the March organization for Life and Family!

A drop digs a rock.

I might best sum up the brief witness that 1 of our friends from a tiny town in Pomerania shared with us. For years he has been organizing Marches in this town for Life and household and, as he admits, he could have given up long ago.

I frequently compose to you that the Marches are wonderful, joyful events that take place in the household atmosphere. But I gotta admit, there's another side.

As the organizer of this March said, the first marches in his village were alternatively like a run of losers. On the street, about 100 people marching calmly, but not in the midst of joyful singing or pro-family slogans, but... namesakes. There were times erstwhile 1 of the followers threw something into the crowd.

But our Friend did not quit – in the following year he besides organized the March for Life and Family, and despite akin reception next year he did it again.

After a fewer years, the names stopped.

The marches passed through the city surrounded by indifference.

After another fewer years, he noticed that people, seeing the March, began to halt and smile.

This is an crucial reminder for all of us: Marches truly change reality! Although sometimes at first glance we do not see their direct effects, in the years to come they turn out to be changes.

And we request a change.

Today, it is clearer than ever: attack on household and matrimony increasesthe government has repeatedly received signals of attempts to strike this basic community; The demographic situation is catastrophicand young people frequently say that they do not want to have children; information about growing number of abortions and more and more shocking stories showing the brutal fact about this bloody act.

We can't look at this passively!

That's why present – although the first Marches for Life and household are inactive a fewer months distant – I ask for your help!

In many towns, organizational work is already in full swing. From specified places we get many signals about the request for support. In order for the Marches to take place, it takes not only conceptual work and commitment, but specifics: banners, posters promoting the event, gadgets.

Many local leaders study a willingness to act, but at the same time say directly: in order for marches in their towns to take place, they request help.

So I ask you to aid this large work – our common work.

Because I believe it is the Marches for Life and household that will change our reality.

I would like to share with you something that moves me most all year erstwhile we are working on the organisation of the Marches for Life and Family.

It's courage.

It truly takes courage to organize the Marches in 2026. Courage to go beyond the safe 4 walls with a message that is increasingly not only considered out of fashion or "not on time", but is presented as a threat to the freedom of another man. In a planet where a household tries to appear as a form of regulation or even oppression, alternatively than a space of love and security, public speaking on the side of life, matrimony and household becomes an act of opposition to the dominant narrative.

But it's not the only dimension of that courage. It's besides a willingness to quit your own comfort. For many local leaders, it means vulnerability to criticism, mockery, social ostracism, and sometimes even concrete obstacles from local authorities. It's not easy decisions.

And yet – after all – specified people are found.

These are people who work in their tiny Homelands with an different commitment, including not only the organization of the Marches, but besides a number of another activities. They animate the lives of local communities, support marriages and youths, and their lives give remarkable evidence to their sincere commitment to the service of the family.

Last Saturday I had a large honor and a real joy to meet any of them.

This year's work on the Marches began with the invitation of local leaders of the Marches for Life and household to Warsaw.

Several twelve people from all over Poland from Suwałki, Śremu or Niska met to participate together Holy Mass in the chapel of the Presidential Palace chaired by Fr., and then – already on long conversations – sharing experiences, difficulties, but besides the joys of organizing marches in their towns.

These meetings always stay in the heart for a long time. The evidence of people so profoundly active in the march movement is at the same time a large motivation and a very concrete call: to put even more heart, energy and work into our work.

By listening to their voice, we want to respond to the real, social request to take sides in life, matrimony and family.

Because this spark of courage truly works – it ignites more towns.

Last year, marches went through the streets of specified cities and towns as Bielsk Podlaski, Bliżans, Low, Szczekociny, Wadowice or Zyrardów for the first time. We already know that in many of them this event will come back this year.

But for respective towns the upcoming march period will be a full fresh beginning. There is simply a request for intense work, support and presence, so that this common household vacation can be held.

One thing is certain: the marching household is growing.

However, this year we are besides facing a unique challenge and a large opportunity.

As shortly as April, the streets of Warsaw will pass through the National March of Life, being a clear evidence to the defence of life in the heart of our Homeland, but besides to attachment to faith. However, we want this year's Capital March to be more than just a manifestation.

Our dream is to accompany the march Days of Life and Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . We want to show that the defence of life, matrimony and household is not only an opposition to evil, but above all an affirmation of good and love, which are born in our families all day.

We want the days preceding the National March of Life to be a peculiar time of prayer for unborn children and for Polish families. We firmly believe that the defence of these values is inextricably linked to the spiritual struggle, and that is why we request concrete prayer activities: many Holy Masses, Rosaries, the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and commemorative services.

The Days of Life and household are besides to be a place of formation and testimony.

That is why we want the voices of experts and people active in defending life and household – through lectures, meetings and talks – to be heard during this event. We want this to be a time in which we can not only celebrate, but besides deepen the knowing of the value of human life, the sense of matrimony and the beauty of family.

We want it to be a celebration of communities and organisations active in pro-life and pro-family matters. Therefore, on our initiative, in close cooperation with the Warsaw curia, meetings have been taking place for a long time, which will co-create this event.

We especially want the Days of Life and household to be an open and attractive place for young people. I have no uncertainty that if we do not invitation a young generation to this conversation today, if we do not show them that the pro-life attitude is something alive, joyful and profoundly human – tomorrow, those who will be willing to carry this banner further may miss it.

I believe that the fruits of this event will scope far beyond 1 day and 1 city.

But I besides know that without the support of people who have the same values at heart, it will not be possible. Therefore, at the Center of Life and household with large hope and responsibility, we begin preparing for this unique work.

At this phase of preparation, however, I must say with full sincerity: We want to act very much – but without your support we simply cannot do it.

As all year, March organizers from all over Poland come to us for aid – material, conceptual, organizational, but besides material. Each march requires posters, banners, promotional materials, gadgets for children. It is thanks to them that marches are visible in public space, scope families, attract people and build a community.

This year, however, the situation is highly difficult.

Our warehouse is empty.

Because last year we distributed and distributed everything – the production of promotional materials we gotta start from fundamentally zero. At the same time, we are besides affected by the yearly costs of specified services.

What was inactive a challenge late is becoming a real barrier today.

And yet we have not only dozens of Marches for Life and household all over Poland, but besides a immense undertaking to be Days of Life and household in Warsaw. We want this event to be a high-level event – worthy of the substance it serves. An event that stays in the participants' hearts for a long time.

We estimation that for cities organising Marches for Life and household this year we will gotta print 50 banners, over 10,000 posters and leaflets. If we want to support each March at least PLN 1000 to prepare these gadgets, it will cost us according to preliminary calculations at least PLN 60,000.

Some organizers, especially those who have organised the Marches for years, are highly enterprising people and do not request specified help, but we already know that this year the Marches will pass through towns that have not yet gone or gone for many years. It is the organizers of these events that we must aid in a peculiar way!

As I mentioned, the final plan of the Days of Life and household is being developed in cooperation with our partners, but I know that we want to seriously participate in the preparation of this time as well as the National March of Life itself, which will consume hundreds more, if not thousands of zlotys.

Therefore, present I am asking you to support the organisation and coordination of the Marches for Life and household in Poland with a voluntary contribution of PLN 50 or PLN 100, PLN 200 or PLN 500, and if you have the opportunity, it is even higher amount.

You know that life hates vacuum. If we neglect to bring back to the public awareness of the image of the family, which is the support and origin of happiness, parenthood, which is simply a gift, we will not leave void.

This space of social debate will immediately be filled with a communicative that is increasingly challenging the sense of family, the value of matrimony and the dignity of human life.

I repeat: already present Poland is facing a dramatic demographic disaster. less and less young people choose to have children. More and more we hear that lasting relationships are impossible, that matrimony is forgone, and work for another man is simply a burden, not a value.

In parallel, attempts to weaken matrimony are constantly being made – by promoting partnerships, introducing express divorces and redefining the basic concepts on which social stableness has been built for generations.

In addition, there are expanding ideological, cultural and civilizational threats that disassemble our intellectual resilience, the ability to build relationships and a sense of sense. This is peculiarly painful for young people.

In the Marches for Life and Family, I see – and I hope that you besides see this – a real chance for change. These events, on the streets of our cities and towns, are a visible sign of opposition to demolition and at the same time an invitation to rebuild Poland based on the foundation of strong, unchangeable families. They are a place where we can witness – calm, joyful, but unambiguous – about the value of life from conception, about the beauty of matrimony and about the sense of family.

Marches are a community of people who not only intellectually agree with the values of life, matrimony and family, but who have been moved by them internally. This is where the power of the Marches and the power of the witness comes from.

Today, specified an authentic voice in defence of life, matrimony and household is more needed than ever. And it is up to us to decide whether it sounds loud or silent.

I so number on your support and commitment

Marcin Perłowski

Director of the Centre for Life and Family