My Final Day

So today was our final day here. Looking back on this day, it was more of a really fun day than anything else. With yesterday probably being my spiritual high point, I used today to wrap up and process in my mind fully what happened to me over this weekend.

Today I had a few cool experiencs. Well today it started off great today because there was breakfast even when we thought there wasn't going to be. First, I went to a roundtable with a Bishop, Bishop Johnston. It was really cool hearing about how a man so devout to his faith struggles in his own faith. He told us that even the Pope goes to confession, something that makes sense but something i never really thought about.

After that i planned to go to a seminar on taking my faith to collegee life and moving on after high school. We were there for half of the seminar when me, Range, and Joe got a great great text from Kate. The text asked if we would want to dress up in animal costumes and dance on the stage during a Popple set...there was no hesitation in our minds.

With over 3,000 people in the audience, Joe (in a blow up bull costume), Rangeley (in a kitten headress/hat thingy), and me (in a blow up deer costume) went up and ran/bounced/danced around on stage behind Popple during their renditions of the Cotton Eye Joe and The Lion King theme song. It was so much fun and a good time i will never forget.

Dinner was great and then we went to general session. Nothing major happened at general session other than the awesome mass. Seeins so many Bishops, Priests, Seminarians, and Deacons all residing over that mass while over 20,000 people went to the same mass at the smae time was amazong. There is no better ending than that. Mass was the kiln to the clay that was molded throughout the weekend. The mass solidified our ties and solidified all we did while we were here.

I've learned a lot, and we as Catholics need to continue learning. The sad things that someone in our group was asked "are there even catholics in MA?". That shows that we need to keep growing strong as a group and make the mark on this world that we can. There is a new evangelization in the works, we are all gears, we are all instruments in the movement, and we need to work together for this movement to work. God is in all that we are, the good and the bad. God is in our hopes, dreams, wants, fears, loves. God pushes out every tear we cry, while at the same time he pulls the strings that lift our mouths into smiles. When you wake up in the morning, God brightens up the world with the sun, then helps you ease into sleep with the moon. We were made in his image, and we all have that joy hidden in us somewhere that God is waiting to pull out of us. God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.

Thank you all for reading these blogs. Thank you to all who made this possible, you've truly changed lives. Love you all!

Love you and God Bless,

Connor Wilkins