Day 11
Plymouth to North Liberty - 17.3 miles
Partly Sunny and a high of 70
Potato Creek: As we depart Pretty Lake, now with our 3-day pilgrims in tow, we head north through Marshall County’s dairy farms and bountiful landscape. Watch for wildflowers and songbirds as we approach Potato Creek State Park on a special path created for our pilgrimage. We’ll enjoy lunch in the park with live music and festivities. Mass tonight is celebrated in the new St. Pius X church with an amazing dinner celebration honoring the Congregation of Holy Cross to follow at the historic St. Joe Farm.
Family
View Fr. Ralph Haag’s reflection on Family
As I Begin This Day
“Come, follow me.” It was the Lord Jesus calling us… It was a call that came to us from without, but also one that arose up within us, as from His Spirit.
We asked how we might follow, and we found many footprints on the road. A great band of men had passed this way, men who had made and lived by their vows, men who had walked side by side in their following of the Lord. They beckoned us to fall in step with them. We wanted to be part of the family they formed in order to share in their life and work.
Constitutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross, 1:1, 5
Photography
Holy Family
Coleman-Morse Center
Prayer
God of compassion and love, we seek to know you and to be known by you, just as your apostle Nathanael did. Draw us into the embrace of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Heal any wounds and divisions that keep us apart, and through our journey of faith, unite our hearts to the works of Holy Cross and the family of Notre Dame throughout the world. Amen.
Notre Dame, Our Mother,
PRAY FOR US
Questions for Reflection
- When have I hesitated to follow after the Lord Jesus? What holds me back?
- How have I shared in the life and work of the Holy Cross family? What have been the great things that God has done for me?
- As I begin my pilgrimage today, this is my intention:
Gospel of the Day
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote - Jesus of Nazareth,the son of Joseph.” “Nazareth! Can...
JOHN 1:45-51
The Journey
August 13-26, 2017
In the tradition of Father Sorin’s inspirational journey and intrepid spirit—our Notre Dame spirit—we will retrace his journey from Vincennes to Notre Dame. We will travel those miles in a collective renewal of our determination, to rededicate ourselves to Notre Dame’s mission to seek God, study the world, and serve humanity—to boldly lead the way into the new chapters of our story.