One main reason to make this pilgrimage trip was to offer up all the difficulties of the trip, and to be with our Lord and Mother, as a very little act of love, and very little act of courtesy towards Our Mother and Our Lord Who have the desire to meet his people at this site, and to welcome Them where ever the place They choose to be with their people. So prior to the trip we got all kind of difficulties and problems to cancel the pilgrimage, there was the hand of darkness trying to void all the graces that we will receive from God, but we persevere in our plans, finally when I finish my work at 4.30 P.M. and we all get ready and just started the trip on the road, our car start to make a loud noise and a huge cloud of smoke came under the hood of the engine, our belt and our compressor of the air conditioning system just burnt, we manage to get down-town to a auto-parts store and get a belt, on the parking lot when I was installing the belt, suddenly start lightning and rain broke up, we got the car running again but without a/c, the storm got very bad we could not see the road and the trucks were very close to us, and making very difficult to see the road, so my wife beg to pull aside until the storm pass or calm a little bit, but I said to my wife that if we stop, we will be late and chances could be that we will loose our hotel reservation, and that the storm will never pass and will stay with us so that we could not make this pilgrimage trip; and something like that did happened, the storm did follow us all the way up of the trip, and stood with us the all next day ( took around nine hours or more to get in the "hotel") When we enter in the room of the hotel, the roaches start running all over the floor and the walls, the bathroom door was out of service and had a big whole under it, the bed sheets were very dark color I could say dark gray (originally white) and there was attached to the beds a machine coin to make the beds to shake.
Lord have mercy !! Again I got almost a riot in the family, complains every where, but there was nothing that I could do, where you will go at 2.00 A.M. to find a room when the near available hotel was 200 miles from the site? So I said to them: " When Our Lord came to earth, there was no room at the hotel and They got a cave with a cow and mule and all kind of roaches and flies and no beds but a manger where the beast eat, and we got at least a room, with roof and walls, we have water, bathroom and two dirty beds, and even we complain for that, They didn't !!!, so offer up to God, He will bless us for these sufferings, remember that we are in a pilgrimage trip and not in a vacation trip. Offer up all these sufferings that God permit that happened to us, for the conversion of sinners or the end of abortion !! finally we stay but my wife and daughter sit at the sofa all night long. No body could sleep so around 6.30 A.M. we all were inside of the apparitions house and at the center of the room, there was not many people at that hour maybe 10 to 15, so everybody start to pray the Five Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, when we finished my little son Michael-Angel ask me if we are going to have breakfast, my answer was that if we move we will loose our place at the apparition room, and at that moment was already full, so I said to him offer up that sacrifice, later we will have breakfast, and we start to pray the Five Sorrowful Mysteries, it was around 8.30 A.M. when we finished with the Sorrowful Mysteries, a volunteer name Vincent, said to all of us in the room, that Our Lord appreciate all our prayer and devotion, but we must understand that out of the room were thousands of pilgrims that some had been driving 14 hours to get at the apparition site, and they would like to share the room for at least a minute, this means that no body can stay permanently at the room so we have to make a moving lane to obtain that every body could share the room. When we got outside of course was raining, and Michael-Angel ask again if we can have now breakfast, and I said what we are going to have is a free schedule, if you want to have breakfast, you can have it, if you want to pray the Rosary you can do it, if you want a walk around you can do it, but I'm not going to be wander around, and doing nothing, do you all see that man with yellow shirt and yellow flag directing the traffic, I going to help him out !! And that it is what we all did, everybody got in their own agenda, so I did ask the volunteer person if I could help, and his answer was: God bless your heart !!, grab one yellow shirt and flag, and start directing the cars to park at the wet grass and up hill, but be careful because some drivers will run over you!! In no time was people every where, cars, busses, handicaps, my Lord what a chaos!! There was no more room to park cars, so they decide to shutdown the parking lot with signs directing people out of the apparition site, and I was told to stay at the entrance and tell to the pilgrims to turn around and find parking in some place else,..... Lord Have Mercy !!! Busses could not turn around and just download pilgrims, chairs, tables, umbrellas, freezers, radios...,. at the middle of the road blocking the traffic like we were at a picnic area. The pilgrims walking at the street and the cars trying to move was a picture of no patience in no where !! When I said to the first car to turn around because the lot was full and close due to that there is no more room to park, the driver answer: Oh... Yea !! That is you !!..... Because Our Mother will never due that to us !! I requested: 'What you mean ? He explained:" I have a handicap tag as you can see, and my handicap relative is seating at the back seat of the car as you also can see, we had been driving for 14 hours to get here !!, and now that we got to the entrance, you..... !!!! Tell us that the lot is close because there is no more room to park...., and that is you...!! Because Our Mother will never said that to us !! For a moment I could not said nothing, just the sound of :.. Hum !!! So putting myself in his situation I said to him: Our Mother will never do that to you.. !! ... so neither do I !!! We can't block the entrance of the apparition site !!! do you see the ditch at the side of the driveway? I want you to throw your car in the ditch if it is necessary, you may park there, but don't block the drive way !! About 14 more handicaps drove in, one after the other, they probably were being sent because they were the only ones driving in. Finally the apparition driveway site ditch at both sides were full, so I turn around and looking to heaven I said:

The next day Sunday was a beautiful day and another pilgrim give us a little crucifix bent, replica of the crucifix that the Vicar of Christ carry.

Pilgrim means person who goes on a journey, and we are all pilgrim's because we all are suppose to be on a journey to heaven, others to hell, but we all are together on a journey!!!. Every day by day, we should get closer and closer to heaven, and farther and farther of hell, but there is people that knowingly and unknowingly want to live in hell and that is the only reason why hell exist, because people by their on will, want to live in hell. Therefore God that knows every thing said:

Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven,
he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Holy Bible @ Saint MATTHEW 7. 21

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