Luke and I have been back for several weeks now.  I to work and he is back to school.  We are working on a power point presentation to share with the churches.  I will be posting more pictures this weekend with some reflective thoughts.

Home

The WiFi was very unreliable the last few days and I was unable to post.  Luke and I arrived safely home last night.  I will be uploading the rest of our pictures and posting daily to catch everyone up.  Thanks for all the understanding and as always ALL the support.  The experience was AMAZING!

Riots

All is well.  For anyone watching the news...
There have been  some riots in the streets and the police force has visibly doubled since we first arrived in Madrid.  We have been no where near them at the time.  We are all safe thus far. We have had some teens ill with fever and some vomiting.  Luke was down for a day but is okay.  Several others have had some similar symptoms.  Please continue to pray for us as we make our way to the Papal site Saturday.  God Bless you all.

Quick update

Just a  quick "hello" and picture update.  We have been in Madrid for 2 days now.  Tonight Pope Benedict XVI arrived to probably between 1-2 million people.  We attended the main event.  He greeted us in several languages.  More to follow...

Re: Lack of time.

Sorry this post is later than I expected.  We are running form event to event in the hot, hot sun each day.  This make for late nights and straight to bed.  We had a slight reprieve tonight by going to early events.  Some of the teens are wiped!  We are now in Madrid and all is well. Last night we attended the Welcoming Mass to the Arch Bishop  of Madrid.  There had to be close to, if not over, 1 million people there.  The streets were packed!    The energy was AWESOME!  Loading picture and will post asap.  Love to you all.

Grotto in Lourdes, France

We spent 1 & 1/2 days in Lourdes, France. Amazing!! Both Luke and I were able to do the Bathes there. What an amazing experence. Mary is in the place where she appeared to St. Bernadette. We attended the English speaking mass there on Saturday morning. WOW! is all I can say.

Barcelona

2am here in Lourdes, France.  Only arrived at midnight.  These are pictures from the Basilica in Barcelona. We had Mass i the Crypt.
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