Brand new Christians! Dear girls Isabel and Leslie after their baptism at Holy Redeemer Church in June. I was their godmother (madrina, en espanol). I promised them that they and I and their older brother Jose could go on the Cathedral Parish’s Spanish language bus pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians (Holy Hill) later in the summer.
We’ve arrived! Jose, Leslie and Isabel with the amazing basilica church in the background.
The whole group went first to pray the Stations of the Cross. The sculptures for the 14 stations showing the suffering and death of Jesus for our salvation are carved from limestone and placed on a path that winds up the hill. Here Padre Jose Luis (on the right) is about to begin leading the prayers at the first station.