reminiscence of a four-day travel to Washington DC

Vans were rented, communications were laid, lunches were packed. The seminarians departed on Wednesday morning, and we set out and drove for hours, through the hills of Kentucky and West Virginia.

On Wednesday night, the seminarians were hosted by the Benedictine sisters of Bristow Virginia. Fr. Godfrey had formerly been their chaplain while doing his doctoral work at CUA.

The seminarians were taken in by families and strangers. On Thursday we marched, we prayed, we testified as one body. What a privilege it was to be in that throng of seminarians moving together.

That is what we must be, one body, the body of Christ witnessing and crying out within the throng of the Church.

The evening of the march we were hosted by families of Our Lady of Mercy parish in Potomac, Maryland.

On Friday, we made a pilgrimage to the shrine of the first American saint, St. Elizabeth Seton.

The pilgrimage went on- we visited the basilica at baltimore and then stayed the rest of the day at a nearby mall for window shops and dinners by groups.

We gladly went back home to our host families in the night. The next day was the day we traveled back to the seminary, exhausted but delighted. The whole experience was memorable and remarkable.