Posted on 01/24/2016 3:30:06 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Stranded on buses overnight by a monster snowstorm that has shut down parts of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, hundreds of Catholic high school students from Nebraska and elsewhere nevertheless seemed to have things relatively in hand this afternoon.
Returning from Washington D.C., where they took part Friday in the annual March for Life, they at least had food and water on board, said Tim McNeil, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Omaha. A nearby maintenance building gave them access to bathrooms.
And while there was nothing resembling a chapel anywhere near the cars, buses and trucks stopped westbound between the Bedford and Somerset exits, the group managed to hold Mass anyway by improvising, creating an altar out of snow, he said.
A photo sent back home by one of those stranded showed them searching for branches along the road so they could be fashioned into a cross.
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FABULOUS!!
FABULOUS!!
God Bless these students, they also went to other stranded cars and gave them food and let people come into their bus(Since it was heated) amazing group of young people God Bless them!
Yes Thank God we have some good, Christian Youths, And Jewish youth also.
March for Life should be ashamed of themselves for not postponing this gathering a mere week and putting people of all ages in danger from this blizzard.
"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
FABULOUS
and a big ditto
They will remember this forever!
And DITTO your DITTO!
That reminds me of one year a bunch of us with my two Italian aunts were driving out to Pittsburgh to visit my brother. Car was absolutely loaded with lasagna, meat, homemade desserts, etc.
There was an accident or something on the PA Turnpike and it was totally shut down at one point. Dead stop.
We coulda made a killing if we went car to car taking orders. :)
Good for them!
If I were stuck in a blizzard, all I would care about is ONE thing, WHERE IS THE BATHROOM!! 14 hours stuck on a highway with no bathroom I think I would explode, actually I KNOW I would explode
What a nice group of young people. We’re lucky we have such wonderful parents to pass on their traditions, as it should be. Wonderful!
Getting permits to do the March for Life takes months. They could not foresee the weather. I know of one pastor who ordered his kids to return on Thursday. They are on a major highway and but for an accident in front of them probably would have made it home. As it is they will just be delayed and have a good story and more publicity from the media than if they had not gotten stranded.
I have a feeling there was somebody watching over them the whole time ;)
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