Dear readers,
I just would like to take a moment to sum up our travel day yesterday, and thank all of you for your prayers for us. There is no doubt in my mind that we would not have fared so well had you not been storming heaven for us.
We got up early yesterday morning and had breakfast at 6:30 am, followed by a 7:20 departure for Madrid's Barajas airport. Our flight to JFK in New York actually landed about 45 minutes early! Everyone got their luggage and we proceeded through passport control and US Customs without difficulty.
As we were awaiting our flight to Boston, we noticed that our seats in the airport were moving - in fact the whole airport was moving! As you know, we were experiencing the 5.8 earthquake that hit Virginia at around 1:50 yesterday afternoon. Although we had some tense moments with flights being delayed as they evacuated and then checked out the control towers, we eventually did take off and landed at Boston at about 4:30 pm. Some families came and picked up their pilgrims directly at Logan, while others still had a couple of hours of transportation until they were reunited with their families.
Before we left Madrid we had a chance to share with one another what the pilgrimage experience meant to us, recognizing that we still hadn't had time to really process it all. The sharing from both young people and adults was truly beautiful. We were really privileged to have a very faithfilled group of young people with us who were open to the work of God in their hearts. The experience touched each of us uniquely - but I think I can say that we all grew in our relationship with Christ, our love for the Church and our Holy Father, and our trust in God's providential care.
God bless all of you!
Joy
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