The following picture shows our drop in at John Henry Westen`s place. He took in various details about our blog and posted an article about us here
The following shows our march through Sudbury. We were surprised to learn that at the Sudbury hospital 40 abortions happen there every week. We were also interviewed by the local news there shortly after the walk you see in this picture below. The `Sudbury Star` also published a great article about us here
The following pictures show our walk through Barry`s Bay. We were surprised by how Catholic this little town of 1200 was! One Catholic school and 2 Catholic churches, not to mention people on the road that we met that were on the way to adoration just amazed us by how faithful the people of Barry`s Bay are! Three of our group members were from Barry`s Bay and they set up amazing contacts with us which included a stay with one of the professors of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom and a photograph with the local Barry`s Bay paper. The article can be found in the Aug 11th issue here
Our next stop was Madonna House in Combermere. Below is our lady of Combermere, where I will be staying at after this walk.
After this we walked over to Wilno, where one of our group member`s family kindly took us in for the night. Below is her family.
After more walking, we arrived close to Stitsville, Ontario, where one of our group member`s girlfriend lives. Below us is having a hearty breakfast at her family`s house.
We drove down to Hanover, from Ottawa, to do our talks for the weekend. I was surprised to meet another cross country walker here, who walked in 1992 for pro-life from East to West. She gave us a book that she wrote. Below is a picture with Therese Weiler
Below is a meal we are having at Br. Paul`s parents house who live in the area where we were talking and took us in for the weekend.
Below is me posing in front of a beautiful sunset in the Hanover area.
Below is a wonderful big family that we met along the way. I ended up climbing trees, having running races and walking cylindrical barrels to compete with those kids. Man, sometimes I think I have not matured since Grade 5!
Below is our walk through Hanover. We walked through Hanover, MildMay and Walkerton. We had our biggest attendance ever for these city walks with about 25 people joining us for one of the city walks.
As we continued our walk into and past Ottawa, it rained and we got a sight of Gandalf aka Johnathan Baker walking on yet another one of those rainy days!
We made it to Trois Rivers and we drove down to Montreal for this weekends talks. Below is a picture of a Morgenteller clinic in Montreal. It is situated to the left of the gate. About 50 abortions happen in Montreal every day.
We stayed with the president of Quebec Life Coalition. The St. Joseph Oratory is literally in his backyard. Below is a picture of an amazing dinner we had with them.
Below is a picture of us trekking up to the oratory. We went there for several masses. Today we toured the oratory and we visited the Basilica, Br. Andre`s tomb. It was an awesome sight to see the number of people that were cured by praying to St. Joseph or Br. Andre! The Basilica was monstrously huge. It had 2 organs with 40 foot pipes. Unfortunately the music they were playing was very loud and it almost seemed demonic.
The responses in the Churches in Montreal was very generous and they do have some gigantic and wonderful churches here! Now, we just got to get some orthodox priests here!
That brings me up to date with today. Only 1 more week to go. I can`t believe it`s almost over
Michael, lovely picture! I can't believe that your walk is almost over, either! Seems like just the other day you left home. Looks like you have touched many hearts along the way and had some interesting experiences. I'm sure that the sacrifices and prayers made by you and your fellow walkers have helped to open hearts to life. May God's will be done in all things... your baby sister says Hi!
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All of us : )