By request, I’m adding a brief interlude/tangent in the Lourdes trip to address one of the “Don’t let me forget” comments, this one coming from the discussion about the icon of Mary. Continue reading “On Marian faces”
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
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
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
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. 
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