Roermond and Sittard - A Day in Kevelaer

On the morning of August 13th we arose to meet buses at 7:30am to take us on our journey to Kevelaer, Germany. Here we met wth various international groups from places such as Colombia, Germany, Netherlands, and Africa to spend the day together.

It began with a talk by Bishop de Jong and we understood it much better once we set up our transitor radios for the translation from German to English, of course! We celebrated mass in the beautiful shrine church with many priests, including our American ones, and two of our young men had the honor to assist at mass as well. We took a nice walk down the street to wait in line for lunch: rice and curry chicken! Not exactly what one would have expected, but delicious just the same. We enjoyed seeing the sights of Kevelaer and meeting people from all around. The group from Roermond said good-bye to the group from Sittard and headed back to have evening prayer in the Munsterkirk from 7-8pm. Host families joined us for prayer and then escorted us home for dinner and fellowship.

August 14, 2005

Today in Roermond and Sittard is a day to spend with our host families. We will go to mass at the local parish. Some of us will go to a castle and others shopping for sure. Tonight in Roermond will have a BBQ with all of the host families as we spend our last night here in the Netherlands. Tomorrow we will journey to Maastricht to gather with the other groups here in the Netherlands and then travel to Dusseldorf in the evening. We have built friendships and have enjoyed getting to know the people of the Netherlands.