Luke uploaded the picture post that he’s been working at for a few days. I hope it gives a good glimpse our day to day life. I thought that it would still be good to give a bit of a recap from the past two days.
Yesterday, while taking a midday rest inside a small town cafe, we saw a man at the counter with a “Catholic University” shirt on. After a second look, Luke and I immediately placed bets on whether he was diocesean or religious, there was no question that he was a seminarian. Somehow, we can just tell. He turned out to be a sem from Texas, studying at CUA in D.C. named Wade. He was going to stop for the day but joined us for the last 6k of our route.
This morning, I left a little earlier to walk with our friend Robert, Sem for Winona, while Luke walked with the rest of our walking group. Robert and I stopped at a Church for a bite to eat and some prayers 10ks into the morning. There we ran into Wade again, and walked the rest of the day with him, stopping at another beautiful Church, Santa Maria Blanca.
We all met up at the Albergue in Carrion de Los Condes. For dinner I cooked up a bit too much rice and veggies, with some sausage. We had some left over and shared with a biker who came in late.
The evening ended with Mass and some card games. It was really cool to attend Mass in a group of four seminarians from the states. The priest was celebrating his 13th aniversary of ordination. He offered a beautiful pilgrims blessing service with the local nuns. It was another awesome experience of the Camino Community that is local and foreign and spands throughout the world.
Know of our continued prayers and please keep us in your daily prayers aswell as we travel the pilgrimage of life together.
-Michael