Wednesday, October 15, 2008

In Rome - Celebrating 32 years together!

Rome was our present to ourselves for your 30th wedding anniversary and it was absolutely fantastic!!! We spent 3 glorious days going from one place to the next. We must have walked 50 miles and our poor feet were protesting at the end of each day but in the morning, we went out once again to explore and explore and explore... We went to so many places, I can't think of all of them right now. The highlight of our trip was on Sunday morning when we were able to attend Mass at St.Peter's square. We had just found out the night before that the Pope was going to be there and give Mass and canonize four saints. This is the last step in sainthood and a very big deal for all countries concerned. Another suprise was that one of the saints was from Ecuador. It was pretty emotional to see all those Ecuadorian flags flying in the wind and to hear the Pope mention the saint's name, Narcisa de Jesus, from Ecuador. Bob was very nice and stayed without complaining... much during the whole process which lasted FOUR hours!!! At the end of Mass, the Holy Father went around in the "Pope-mobil" and we ended up feet away from him. I made Bob get up on a chair and take pictures as Pope Benedict XVI came by. I kept telling Bob that I was so happy to be there that my heart felt it was going to explode! Here are a couple of pictures of the morning.
The picture on the left shows the Ecuadorian flags flying as the Priest's procession reaches the main Altar as Mass is about to begin. The picture on the right, shows two of the saints, the left is from India and the right is from Ecuador. India made history as their saint is the first woman from India to reach this step in the canonization process.
This will probably be one of the best moments to remember in our life together. Being in Rome at such a moment in Catholic history was absolutely the greatest way to celebrate our anniversary.
I will put some more posts with more stories of our wonderful trip at a later time.