Sunday, June 19th Morning meeting at Kwik Trip in La Crosse to continue the journey to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mary, Star of the New Evangelization - pray for us! The folks from Discover Wisconsin joined us again! Someone said, "Chris you're famous!" Chris responded "When you're famous, everybody recognizes you, you [...]
Saturday, June 18th Biking into La Crosse. Stopped at Blessed Sacrament for a Holy Hour. Stopping for the night, the team and friends spent time forming the paper chain of prayer petitions gathered on the route, to leave at Mary's fee on Sunday at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. (Pictures, thanks to Jen, [...]
Friday, June 17th Wake up at the Kirchner's. Meet the daily riders at Elroy Sparta trail, a bike trail made where train tracks used to run. Break for lunch in the Black Squirrel capital, Norfolk! Continue on the Sparta, through a few tunnels. Rest in Sparta before heading to Bangor for evening prayer & supper. Stopping for the night in [...]
Thursday, June 16th 8:15am Mass in Reedsburg. Break in Kendall, WI, Arrive in Wilton. Time at the Kirchner's and then Dinner. (Pictures, thanks to Jen, will be posted soon).
Our group continues across the state, starting out their day with breakfast at the Sunrise Cafe in Portage. They stopped for lunch and prayer at Camp Gray & finished their day Reedsburg. At some point the race was on when a wager was set for three of the men bikers: They had to bike one hour at [...]
Tuesday morning June 14th our group woke up in Beaver Dam, attended Mass in the parish hall of a beautiful church and headed on their way. A few old friends had to part ways today, more bikers to join us later this week. Continue to pray for us and with us from wherever you may [...]
Our fearless bikers began their journey from Mary to Mary on Monday, June 13th (The feast of St. Anthony of Padua). They woke up at The Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians, at Holy Hill in Hubertus, WI. They stopped for a Lunch break at Village of Hustisford and ended their day-long [...]
After much planning and packing a group gathered at the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians, at Holy Hill Sunday, June 12th to get organized, share a meal together and rest before the ride began. Thank you to Jen Dunnett for the photos! [slideshow_deploy id='106']