This morning started off at the Formation House in Lacrosse, with Lauds, a Holy Hour, and Breakfast. In 8 minutes, we will be departing for the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalu

After a period of silent prayer at Savior Pastoral Center, Lauds, and loading onto our Bus, the seminarians are off on our pilgrimage with the Archbishop. Thank you to Melanie Norris, our valiant secretary for all her hard work in planning this trip for

Thank you for following the seminarian blog while we were on our pilgrimage at World Youth day. Here are a few pictures from our pilgrimage: (opening ceremony with Pope Benedict) (Catechesis by Archbishop Dolan) (morning catechesis) (waiting for the Stations of the Cross to begin) (seminarian Mass with Pope

The Lord desired that the last leg of our pilgrimage be a time to grow in holiness and patience. We had thought that our trip to Fatima, Portugal was going to be around a 4 hour bus trip, but instead it ended up being a 10 hour bus trip. This left little time for us actually at Fatima before we needed to head to Lisbon, Portugal for a short night stay in a hostel. Since we arrived so late, we only

The last three days were a whirlwind, and unfortunately we were not able to post. On Friday we all went to a catechesis session led by the popular Archishop Dolan of New York. He gave the best catechesis of the week and was realy able to meet us where we were at and draw us closer to Christ from there. He also had some very memorable jokes which had all of us, including our Archbishop, laughing and

We started off the day like normal at the Love and Life center with catechesis done today by a bisgop from Canada. Many in our group fell asleep out of exhaustion, but the talk itself was pretty good. Jason Everett and his wife spoke before him and that was very well received. After catechesis, the KCK group split up with most of the group heading towards the opening ceremony site. We got there around

This year for WYD each group chooses where they want to do their morning catechesis. Our KCK group chose to go to the Love and Life Arena sponsered by the sisters of life and knights of columbus. Cardinal Pell of Sydney, Australia gave the catechesis session, which went over well. He then celebrated Mass and three of our guys had the privilege of serving it. The afternoon was free and so everyone