We're on retreat

This weekend we had the opportunity to go on retreat together and bond further as a pilgrim group.

We had an opportunity to learn more about mercy, the theme of the upcoming World Youth Day, in different practical ways.  In the afternoon we drove out to Precious Blood Parish for reconciliation and prayer time.  Later in the evening we had fun playing board games and karaoke.  On Sunday after Mass on the way back to Vancouver, we stopped by the quaint little village of Fort Langley.

Thank you to Henry and his parents for hosting us for the weekend, and cooking such delicious food for us!

Joy all around

First of all, we'd like to extend our thanks to all our supporters who came out to our fundraising dinner tonight.  In addition we'd like to thank all the kitchen staff, additional servers, performers and everyone else who helped to make this night a success.

Tonight was an opportunity to get to know you, our supporters, and for you to get to know us.  We had a pleasure serving everyone including our family, friends and all our supporters.

We will be bringing the prayer intentions that you have written in the envelopes to Poland with us and will be keeping you in our prayers throughout our preparation and journey to Kraków.  We hope that you will be praying for us through this time as well.

We also had a special guest at the dinner, Pope Francis!  Well actually just a cardboard cutout of him.

But we hope to see the Pope in person when we are at World Youth Day in Kraków, Poland.