Dear Readers
Our names are Dom and Phil. We are currently just over half way on a fundraising pilgrimage for Youth 2000. Youth 2000 is a charity very dear to our hearts for its work in drawing people closer to Christ through the Catholic Church.
We were inspired at the New Year retreat in Balham to undertake a sponsored cycle across Europe in order to raise money for the Youth 2000 summer prayer festival in Walsingham. The cost to Youth 2000 to organise the national retreat is roughly £80,000. It is a donation-only event in order to make it more freely available to anyone and everyone who would like to attend.
Our cycle started in Rome, and we crossed Italy and headed south through Croatia and Bosnia to get to the Marian shrine in Medjugorje. We then took a ferry back to Italy, crossed the Alps through Austria (240 miles of mountains!) and we are currently cycling north through Germany, heading to Walsingham - England's Nazareth.
This event can only be made possible through the generosity and charity of benefactors such as you.
We are keeping an online blog at www.catholicbiketrip.com - there's also a link on our website to sponsor us, and in doing so help to cover the massive costs of the event.
Please do keep us and the festival in your prayers! With best wishes,
Dom & Phil
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