He arrives...

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 2:30 and the pope wasn't scheduled to arrive until 8, and so we waited in the massive crowds and worked our way as close to the stage as we could. We were amazingly very successful, but it wasn't easy. We ended up being just to the right of the monument in front of the stage. We waved the Kansas flag proudly in the sea of flags from all around the world. The day was amazingly hot too, but thankfully they handed out a lot of water.

There was great joy when the Holy Father finally arrived, and I'm not sure what exactly he said in his Spanish homily but it sounded good and was undoubtedly probably very profound. The event ended up being pretty short itself and afterwards we hiked a very long distance back to the ranch for food and rest.

It was another successful day in Spain.