This is the Precursor to One HUGE Posting... Next Week.

Dear All:

Well, the narrative on the Papal Election is now complete. Check it out in last week's archives.

I still have pictures from Lourdes, France, to show you all, but those are going to have to wait for now. I am off to southern Germany for the next few days (until Sunday morning). And I'm heading up to Altenstadt, to stay with a beautiful family who I met while in Medjugorje. There, I am going to rent a car, drive the Autobahn, cruise down the Romantic Road, see a few castles, admire the mountains outside Garmish-Partenkirchen, and wind up back in Munich to see-- among other things-- where Benedict XVI was once Archbishop Ratzinger.

I cannot wait to show you my pictures and tell you my stories. Things will be posted on this blog with a little more expedience from here on out, as my internet is back up and running, and I don't have another paper due for a while.

So, until Sunday! Ciao! And please keep me in your prayers!


"Every day that passes I fall more and more in love with the mountains; if it weren't for my studies, I would spend entire days up in the pure mountain air, contemplating the greatness of the Creator."

~Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati