Welcome

Hopefully, this summer will be the last free time of our lives.

Although we are both from Wisconsin, Michael and I became friends when we entered the seminary and started our studies at the Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University. I didn’t know Michael prior to entering the seminary, but we quickly became friends. Both of us are studying to become Catholic priests in our home Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin. In our eight years of studying for the priesthood, four will be spent in college and four will be spent in major seminary where we will be stationed in parishes for the summers, leaving the summer of 2016 our last free summer.

Having worked as counselors at a catholic camp (Camp Gray) for the last two summers, we knew we wanted to spend this summer traveling abroad.  Coincidently, this summer is also World Youth Day, which is a large gathering of young Catholics across the world.  With careful planning and ample time we have decided to trek across Europe on a pilgrimage.

The main objectives are to visit Notre Dame in Paris, Lourdes, in south of France, walk the entire Camino de Santiago, rest our weary legs in Fatima, Portugal, and finally, fly to Poland to celebrate World Youth Day.

This blog will cover our travels and give you unique insights not only into our day to day travels but also our path of discernment to the priesthood.  We hope to keep you posted every other day; however, this will be dictated by the availability of Wi-Fi.  Michael and I will alternate posts so that you may get to know both of us better from our points of view.  Feel free to comment or add questions to posts, which we will answer when we can.

Please pray for us, and be assured that we will be praying for all of you.

-Luke