Day 3, Part 2: The Beckoning

Crew: Tom, Brooke, Claire, Margaret (all a beautiful family), and Marlana (adopted family for the day)

Schedule:

  • 0700 Breakfast
  • 0830 Assemble for travel to the Grotto for
  • 0945 Mass at the Grotto
  • 1200 Malades lunch
  • 1500 Assemble for and leave for
  • 1630 Eucharistic procession
  • 1900 Dinner

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Day 3, Part 1: the reckoning

Crew: Tom, Brooke, Claire, Margaret (all a beautiful family), and Marlana (adopted family for the day)

Schedule:

  • 0700 Breakfast
  • 0830 Assemble for travel to the Grotto for
  • 0945 Mass at the Grotto
  • 1200 Malades lunch
  • 1500 Assemble for and leave for
  • 1630 Eucharistic procession
  • 1900 Dinner

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Day 2, Part 3: The scheduley bits.

Crew: Len B, Susan H, Kathleen W, Fr. Fisher

  • Schedule:
  • 0700: Breakfast
  • 0900: The Baths
  • 1200: Lunch
  • 1345: Orientation of Lourdes and team photo
  • 1530: Mass @ St. Bernadette’s
  • 1630: Awarding of Malade medals
  • 1830: dinner
  • 1945: assemble and line up for 2100 Rosary procession

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Wheelchair Stage 2 complete

While we were at Lourdes, with barely any wifi outside the hotel (which is a very good thing, forces focus and that was much needed), I received emails about the wheelchair I bought arriving here in the States.  My sister-in-law’s brother-in-law Jack (you got that?  basically family), a major sponsor and actual builder of my wheelchair build, let me know it arrived here in the states. img_2820.jpg Continue reading “Wheelchair Stage 2 complete”

Day 2, Part 2: the afterbath

Crew: Len B, Susan H, Kathleen W, Fr. Fisher

  • Schedule:
  • 0700: Breakfast
  • 0900: The Baths
  • 1200: Lunch
  • 1345: Orientation of Lourdes and team photo
  • 1530: Mass @ St. Bernadette’s
  • 1630: Awarding of Malade medals
  • 1830: dinner
  • 1945: assemble and line up for 2100 Rosary procession

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