Die Buchwalds

We had a send-off Mass for WYD with our amazing awesome Bishop tonight! The whole thing was just fantastic! Our group got to sit in the first two pews so we had a really great view of everything that goes on when the Bishop says Mass :) I just can’t say enough how wonderful it was to be at that particular celebration of the Eucharist.

Bishop Zubik gave us some *very* interesting statistics during his homily. Apparently, other than the dioceses in Australia, Pittsburgh is sending more people (roughly 600) to WYD this year than any other diocese in the WORLD! This is largely thanks to the amazing generosity of our sponsors, Youthtowne, and its founders. There are 475 in the Youthtowne group alone, then there are some other parishes that organized their own trips separately.

After Mass, the Bishop hung around & took pictures with people & autographed our booklets. He even let a few people (Matt included) from our little group hold his staff :)

We just got back because 14 of us stopped to get something to eat on the way home… for those of you familiar with the Pittsburgh area, we went to King’s and ordered an Angry Mob (12 Frownie Brownies and 12 scoops of ice cream). Wasn’t hard to eat because of how many we had in our group but it was FUN! And we have posters. I said we need to laminate one & mount it on a pole of some sort to carry around at WYD so we can easily identify where our group should be ;)

Two weeks from today, we’ll be in Sydney, Australia!!

Posted in WYD 2008 | By Amy at 12:02 am | Comments(1)