Just the beginning

To give a kind of update of the last few days. I've been to Auschwitz, Wadowice to see JPii's home parish, the Divine Mercy Sanctuary twice, did the pilgrimage of Mercy, got to see the swarm of pilgrims in town center, and got to experience the opening mass to begin World Youth Day. So far it's been incredible and it's hard to believe that we've done all this. Today was another big day. We went to catechesis in the morning to hear the archbishop of Kentucky at an Augustinian church. Celebrated Mass and then we were invited by the archbishop to go out to lunch. Again we had that Italian restaurant and it's still kind of weird to eat there while in Poland but it was very nice and exciting. After a small break in our hotel me and the Georgian(Allen) in our group went to the mercy center really early for the WYD USA gathering. It was good that we did because the rest of the group wasn't able to get in. There was estimated to be over 18,000 people in the stadium. We heard speakers, had a concert with Matt Maher, got to be a part of adoration and hear Bishop Barron talk. Later we found out that Bishop Barron actually wore JPII'S vestments. After Adoration Matt Maher did another concert and we were able to get down to the floor level. Then we met up with the life teen group and when just about everyone was gone except the life teen group they turned to us and were like "hey do you want to go meet Matt Maher?" super casually. And Allen and I looked at each other and were like "yeah!". So I got a pic with Matt Maher. Yeah that was amazing. When we left we got on the tram back home and basically made it on to the party tram. Such an amazing couple of days and I can't believe it all really happened and still can't quite believe that I'm here getting to experience all of this.Read more