Sunday in Rome is far from dead but from the pilgrimage angle is a nit of a lost day. It is impossible to go to any of the sanctuaries on a Sunday and in fact a lot of the group were still in jet lag and were glad of another quiet day. Sundays cant be avoided altogether obviously, and the pilgrimages are fixed according to the same dates every year. So here we were on Sunday!
We had a leisurely start with Mass at Tra Noi. There was a muddle with the booking so an elderly priest and his small group had a Mass standing round the altar in a chapel built for a couple of hundred and we, 28 of us, had Mass in the small prayer room and filled every seat! But it was a lovely Mass, people are coming back to life and almost half of the group are FMDM sisters and had come from Ireland or UK so were not in jet lag anyway. After Mass they had a lecture at 10.00 though I cant seem to remember what it was about nor can I find the sheet of paper which would tell me all. Sorry. They then went down to St Peter's for the midday Angelus with Pope Francis and were back in time for pranzo and a siesta. Sunday was very hot again, upper 80s and some are minding it more than others. The humidity is also high which makes it feel hotter but the two sisters from Singapore said that for this it was a lovely sort of day, ot too hot not too humid. It clearly depends on what you are used to!
Towards the end of the afternoon there were two lectures, one on Francis and the papacy and one on Clare and the papacy, star turns, Murray and self! Nobody is hanging aroiund in the evenings I notice, and they always have a lot of reading to do for the next day, as well as keeping journals and keeping emails etc up to date, so they have more to do than just visit places with lecture interruptions! That is all I can remember about Sunday though I think we had a staff meeting and Andre is also a bit jetlagged still. Love to you all ft
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