Hello Everyone!
Welcome to the Official Blog of Fordham University's 2011 World Youth Day Pilgrimage Team!
With only 10 days until our big departure, we are so very excited to launch this blogsite which we hope will become the central mode of contact and communication between our group and everyone back home in the States. We hope to update often with posts recounting our experiences, pictures, and even videos of all that we are seeing and doing during our time in Spain. We are sure that it will be an incredible pilgrimage filled with many graces and blessings, and we wish to share all of those moments with you!
In the days to come please continue to pray for us as we continue our preparations, as well as for the thousands of other young people around the world who are also readying their minds, bodies, and hearts for this Journey to the Heart of Christ. You can be assured that we will be keeping all of you in our thoughts and prayers too!
Finally, please visit these websites which will provide you with some more detailed information about World Youth Day, the Ignatian MAG+S program, and some of the great people who have spent the past couple of years working very hard to ensure a wonderful 2011 WYD for all of us:
Official World Youth Day Website: http://www.madrid11.com/en/
Official MAGIS Website: http://www.magis2011.org/en
Apostleship of Prayer Website: http://www.apostleshipofprayer.org/worldyouthday.html
"Love and Life" Center Site: http://www.wydenglishsite.org/wyd/index.html
Thanks again for keeping up with our blog! We look forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks to come!
Peace and Many Blessings!
Roxanne De La Torre
FCRH 2009
GSRRE 2011
Fordham WYD Pilgrimage Team
Co-Coordinator
Thirty-Eight Pilgrims from Fordham University in New York, USA are spending three weeks walking in the footsteps of St. Ignatius & journeying to the Heart of Christ in Loyola, Madrid, & Barcelona, Spain for MAG+S and WORLD YOUTH DAY 2011. Join us as we celebrate our Catholic faith, form new friendships, learn more about our Jesuit roots, and grow in our love of Christ and one another. For we are "planted and built up in Jesus Christ, firm in the faith." (Colossians 2:7)