St. Michael School opening celebrations

St. Michael School opening celebration today. Went to St. Laurent today to Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine. Yeah it sounds exotic but really it's only 30 mins south of Prince Albert. Actually, that IS what makes it exotic! From the moment we arrived, there was a sense of peace. The kids were great. Mass was great. The choir was amazing. I hope they got my point in my homily. Peace is the theme this year. Peace is found when we humble ourselves and remove all pride. I had the privilege of escorting a couple of groups to the buffalo jump, where the early inhabitants used to run their food off a cliff. It was brutal, but it was an effective means of hunting. They wasted nothing of the buffalo, using all the bones and organs for tools, etc. It makes you appreciate Safeway and Rona

Hike and Pray!

I'm excited about an initiative this summer that the diocese of Saskatoon is providing in June. We are going to do a 16km hike overnight and pray for vocations. Come join us if you love to hike and or pray!

Find the information here

Travelling Van

This is our baby. Ain't she a beaut!

A little bit slower now

I was not planning on blogging during this trip but, despite not having uploaded any pics yet, I think i'm going to make a go of it. Besides, if you are REALLY interested you can see pics on facebook if you go to some of my friends or to the PA WYD group.

We have been on the go since we got off the plane and so I haven't had much time or opportunity to use the internet. We spent 2 nights in Brisbane. Highlight: Australian Zoo where we saw a show by Steve Irwin's wife Terri. Then we travelled south to O'Reilly's, a cold rainforest resort where we did a number of outdoor activities for 2 evenings.

We gladly left the cold mountains, however, and then spent 4 nights in the small town of Taree. Most people loved this as the parish and host families were so welcoming. I think we changed there lives more than they us!! They were so excited to see all these excited Canadians coming to there town! There are 74 of us wearing the same jersey's so ya kind of notice us in the petrol stations!! Haha!

Currently we are in Sydney and WYD was officially began Tuesday night (about midnight Wednesday morning) where everyone is going crazy chanting for love of Country, Jesus, and life. There are about 200,000 pilgrims taking over a city of 5 million. They've blockaded streets, put signs up everywhere, its breathtaking. Typically Aussie's are very hospitable and inviting. However there is some crazy anti-catholic stuff going on like "the pope is the anti-Christ" newspapers as well as handing out condoms. One of our couples got the finger by an Aussie and a few of us got yelled at by a bus driver because basically there were too many of us. I don't remember this in Toronto but generally it is not too bad. Been learning alot as there have been alot of good speakers.

Hope you're watching for me on T.V.!!!

in awe of the power of the Spirit