Day 5

Friday, July 24 (St. Charbel Makhlouf)

Holy Hill to Holy Resurrection Monastery,  69 miles

6:00 a.m.:        Mass at Holy Hill

7:00 a.m:         Breakfast, Dignitas Infinita ¶53-54

8-4:30:            Pedal to Holy Resurrection Monastery

4:50 p.m.:       Vespers with Monastery brothers

6:15 p.m.:       Supper at Monastery

8:00 p.m.:       Rosary, with focus intentions

9:00 p.m.:       Compline

Culture of Life focus: Marginalization of the Disabled,
Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide

Prayer intentions:

  • For brothers and sisters with disabilities, who have been excluded from family life, the life of society, and from the church.
  • For all who live with the pain of abandonment:  the disabled, the elderly, the children of the streets, the homeless, the prisoner, the lonely.
  • For all who have lost hope for life, that they may encounter a new source of hope in genuine friendships.
  • For all who have embraced the demonic idea that humane care and treatment can include the administration of death.

For reflection:  what choices can we make in solidarity with those who live with disabilities, and for those who have lost all hope and the will to live?