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This is Lily Cuchet - about seeing the Holy father - with wonderful pictures - you can magnify them to see it better.

She shared with us her story - I almost feel envy - she was one of the very few selected to meet with the pope.

Read her story:

Audience with the Pope John Paul II - Handshake with the Holy Father

Wow! Lily, great story! Great pictures! I am glad you showed these photos to us.

Thanks Jaga and Nancy.........

A couple of "fun things" connected to the Papal meeting.

Once we got out of the auditorium - not only was our group of about 50 people waiting and cheering us as we came out the door - but several other people..........everyone wanted to touch my hand..........I don't think I washed my hands for two days..........

Also, when approaching and actually meeting the Holy Father - you could just feel the Holy Spirit in the man, your emotions were so high......you had that feeling of not knowing whether your tears were joy or sorrow.........was just an overwhelming feeling.

This meeting really set our choir up - we were pumped!!!
There was no choir in the world that could possibly sing better than us...........well, at least that's the way it felt............and, in fact, we did a very good job especially when the Vatican choir master pull out the Latin songs and thought that would stop us - as he had four backup singers to cover the bases..............didn't stop us however since most of the members of my choir were women and men who had been trained in the Catholic Church prior to Vatican ll..............we 'nailed' the lyrics.....just like it was yesterday and the Vatican director smiled and was so happy.

All in all - it was an experience of a life time and you can imagine how I felt when I returned to Pope John Paul's hometown and walked through his house - the church - his favorite "creme" bakery - etc........and I thought about our meeting...........was so much more meaningful!

God Bless

lily

Lily,

I almost feel like adding a couple of sentences from what you told us now to the story.

I cannot sometimes contact you by e-mail - it depends on AOL. I was lucky to be able to send you an e-mail yesterday!

This was a real blessing to be able to meet the pope personally. You were so lucky in the fact that you were on the wheelchair just in the right moment <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Lily,
This picture is wonderful. I, how Jagoda I feel envy that You was so close our father.
I dream go Rome , visit Vatican and our pope s grave.
I never was there.