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Going on a Spiritual Pilgrimage trip 12 days before Christmas??!
Great Idea ?! (I thought so)
My husband didn’t!!
On Sunday morning, December 13 th, seven PAPA prayer warriors loaded up in a 15 person van and headed to Dallas! We were blessed to have Denise drive the van – she has a license to drive a bus!!
Father Michael was waiting and preparing to celebrate mass for us at the St John Neumann Monastery in Dallas. Fr. Michael also taught us a beautiful Jewish Folk Song “Evenu Shalom” ! What fun we had singing with Fr. Michael!
We girls then headed to our 5 bedroom AirBnb which was very clean and spacious. We unpacked and decided we were hungry! I had made a meatless Hearty Vegetable Soup and Broccoli cornbread
for dinner. While we were getting everything ready for dinner, Denise went to pick up Fr. Michael from the Monastery.
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After dinner, Fr. Michael provided dessert -“ a wonderful teaching on “How to Think Catholic” - Think
Critically.” - an end to a beautiful day!
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