Discipleship Program, Toronto, Canada

Precious Blood Parish

Talk in St Paschal Baylon Church

My second visit to Toronto didn't see as many engagements as my first visit three years ago, but the numbers of people to listen to me were more. I conducted HSI's Discipleship Program in Precious Blood Church and gave a few talks to prayer groups around the city, including one to Toronto's largest—Gethsemane Ministries.

I moved on to Vancouver from there, and though the Discipleship Program wouldn't be conducted until the middle of September, I had enough on my plate to keep me busy. Gave talks to prayer groups in St. Joseph the Worker Church, St. Paul's Church, and Sacred Heart Church, among others. I also gave a talk to residents of Luke 15 House, a half way house for ex-prisoners and recovering addicts.

World Youth Day, Australia

Inaugural Mass at the Telstra Dome, Melbourne

A young(er) pilgrim at Sydney

A wonderful enactment of the Passion

I accompanied Diana Mascarenhas of the ICPE School of Mission to Australia for the World Youth Day as one of their speakers during the first leg of the tour in Melbourne, though I really didn't have to do much by way of preaching. I was glad to have gone, nonetheless, because the experiences I had in Melbourne for the Days of the Diocese program and then, later on in Sydney, for the World Youth Day, would trigger off a desire to work with youth again and put together an HSI team for the next WYD to be held in Madrid, Spain in 2011.