This past Wednesday I took the long drive over to Our Lady of Snows in Belleville, IL. The route has changed since my last visit. I crossed the new 70 bridge called the Stan Span in local slang. I arrived just after noon. It was cold and felt like very early spring or late winter around these parts.
My goal was to take a walk on the Way of the Cross. It is a half mile all the way around. I went around 3 times making it a mile and a half walk.
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My goal was to take a walk on the Way of the Cross. It is a half mile all the way around. I went around 3 times making it a mile and a half walk.
The church is round. I went to Mass there once when I stayed out there for a retreat.
The playground still has the giant hands of God.
The trees were still very bare.
The Way of the Cross has these little buildings holding the Stations. If you press a button, it will say a meditation for each station as you go around.
This is the road that leads around the Way of the Cross.
A close up of the Station.
As I sat and looked up in the Agony Garden which is at the entrance, I thought maybe I could see the beginning of swelling buds.
Snows is a restful place and it was the mountaintop experience I wanted on this Lenten Spring Break Day.