Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Sponsorship for the Chartres Pilgrimage needed!

Hello! I hope anyone who is reading this is having a wonderful day! My name is Virginia Nolan, and I am a Catholic girl from a large Catholic family. My oldest brother is a priest with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, and my second oldest brother is a seminarian there. We have 13 children in our family, and 4 are adopted. 3 from Ethiopia and 1 from a local agency. I have been on the Chartres Pilgrimage before, and have found it to be one of the most spiritually uplifting experiences, even if I don't notice it while I'm there. Something about it makes me want to go back year after year, even though I know how painful and difficult it is. This year I would like to share this experience with one of my sisters who has never been before. She has always wanted to go, but has never had the opportunity. I have decided to try to give her that opportunity this year. However, as we are both college students and our parents cannot afford to help us out and niether can our parish, I find myself in the situation of asking for sponsorships from strangers. If there is anyone that would like to help sponsor two young Catholic girls to go on a long and difficult walk, who would offer their sufferings up for their sponsors, please let us know! We will be signing up with the Irish chapter if we can get sponsored. You can contact Vicky Nestor at vickynestor@gmail.com to send a donation for our sponsorships. Thank you so much, God Bless!