I sometimes wonder why I keep doing this. At about 7:45 AM tomorrow, I will load my pickup with a backpack and three other people so that we can make our way to Rapid City to join around thirty-five other people who, after Mass, will load a bus and head for Denver. On Thursday morning, we will fly, via New York, to Brazil (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) for World Youth Day with our Pope.
This will be my fifth such trip. Previous World Youth Day events have occurred in Canada, Germany, Australia, and Spain. Each, to date, has been hard, exhausting, at least occasionally wet, and physically demanding. Each time before leaving, I wonder what possessed me to sign up yet again. Then I come home and find that I cannot stop thinking about what I experienced, how great the other people were, and when I might see them again. World Youth Day is too hard to communicate in a single post. As a result, I will be blogging about the event as we go. i have purchased an international data plan that will allow me to do so, so I hope to provide an update every day. You can follow our South American Adventures here:
riopilgrimage.blogspot.com
Pray for us. Pray for the other young people of the world gathering there. Pray for the Pope. Pray for Brazil.
We will be back in the US on August 31.
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