Via Pacis Medjugorje

... to them. They now also have a house for pregnant women who can not stay at home. It is basically self sufficient and run by donations. Next we went to the drug rehab mission that was started by a nun. This is for men and women that are suffering from drug addictions. It is a 3 to 5 years program. Two young men spoke to us and one was from Florida. The men and women work in all ...

... very diverse group. Got up to use the restroom on the plane and stumbled over a prostesis. Have to remember I am a pligrim not a tourist. Rosemary and I are doing well. All is well so far. Not used to time change yet though. Will write more tomorrow.

... a 18 bed hostel. The smallest and the strangest hostel we have been to, however after the welcome cup of tea and coffee with a slice of cake it felt like home. Straight away we booked ourselves on a tour that we had read about in the reviews. <br>The tour is the most fascinating tours we have ever taken told by Majda's brother, Bata, a local Bosnian who fled in 93 during the war and return 5 years later. We learnt so much history all about Bosnia and Hercegovina ...

Today started with breakfast at 8:30, followed by the mile walk into town, through vineyards and a cemetery, to St. James' Church for mass. I stopped at the Risen Christ. It is quite amazing to see the oil flow from solid brass, day after day, hour after hour, never stopping. After Mass, most of the group went to lunch, where the restaurants actually serve "fasting bread" on Wednesdays and Fridays, in accordance with Mary's request to fast on ...

... re made of stone, maybe metal of some sort, though) weighs 300 pounds. The men of the village carried each one up the mountain, while the children, including him, carried buckets of cement and other materials to mount the displays. The members of our group included a number of women in their 70's, including one who is almost 80. Every one of us made it up to the site of the apparition.

... to make a comeback. Just don't call it 'communism', since that's a dirty word. Reagan's dead and so's his 'revolution'. Mostar shows heavy scars from the war with Serbia of 1992 and the racist policy of 'ethnic cleansing'. The irony is that Bosnia and Serbia and Croatia are all the same race, with some notable cultural differences, specifically religion. Most violence is committed within the family, isn't it? Unfortunately you ...

... every summer. I started walking around and the locals again helped me find what I was looking for. It was an interesting walk through more neighborhoods as I saw many more bombed buildings. The ones I saw on this walk were probably the most @impressive@ just because of the amount of bullet holes that @decorated@ the buildings. You could tell that many gun battles took place in this neighborhood. There was a prison across the street ...

... three main religions remain living peacefully together. Well, I must say that I should think "peacefully", thats what I am wanted to think. Anyways, in the city just next to each other there are Minarets, Mosques, Katolic and Orthodox Churces. In mostar the river that goes through the city, keeps the warm air clean and clean. It also splits the city to new and old side. After every hour church bells makes their note of hour and in teh ...

... for the entire time we were here. There were gypsies in Mostar (as there were in Sarajevo) but they were quite polite, moving on if you showed no interest. Weather wide it was a funny day, with sunny periods but rain as well. Towards the end of the day it turned quite cold. We decided to buy some treats for dinner in our apartment rather than go out again. On to Dubrovnik tomorrow.

Bosnia We stayed in Medjugorje, in the region of Herzegovina in Bosnia. It's the most religious town I've even been to, and if it had a word, just one word to describe its essence, it would be devotion. People from all over the world pilgrimage there to walk up Apparition Hill, where in 1981, a beautiful young woman appeared in the sky on a cloud to an eventual total of six children. They later realized it was the Blessed Virgin Mary and she returned to ...