Monthly Archives: August 2011

We’re here!

The Soccer stadium that became a Coffee House

Proud to be an American

Aerial view of young people filling the streets around Cibeles Square for the opening mass

Tuesday, August 16 The amount of things that has happened today alone seems to equate one day here with a week back at home. This makes the application of the word “brevity” a very difficult task  therefore, I have enlisted … Continue reading →

At last we have arrived. The way here, however, was not the least bit eventless. When we reached London, we met several other groups traveling to Madrid for WYD including a charismatic group from Tampa, FL, a boys and girls … Continue reading →

Hello! My name is Margaret Antonio and for the next few days I will be your window into World Youth Day. I am very grateful to have this opportunity to go to Spain along with my school and friends to … Continue reading →

“True love ‘increasingly seeks the happiness of the other, is concerned more and more with the beloved, bestows itself and wants to ‘be there for’ the other’ (Deus Caritas Est, no. 7) and therefore will always grow in faithfulness, indissolubility … Continue reading →

Though I live in metro-Detroit, this week my heart is in Spain. I feel very close to our Blessed Mother (whose great feast day is August 15, the day before all festivities begin.)  She must be looking down with great … Continue reading →

One of our regular readers, Francois, asked a question a few weeks ago that deserved a careful response from Father John Bartunek, who was on retreat.  He has returned and has offered the following: Q: I don’t know if it is … Continue reading →