After our first full, good nights sleep, everyone was in high spirits. Our lady of Knock is really not an apparition of Our Lady, per se, but a Eucharistic apparition. It featured John the evangelist, Saint Joseph, are assumed lady and the Lamb of God standing on an altar with a cross surrounded by angels.
It was raining so I gave a very abbreviated version of my talk on the bus to explain how this apparition is straight from the Book of Revelation and how profound the meaning really is. ( A copy of my full talk last time is below on YouTube.) I have not seen it written anywhere so it was fun for me to research all of this and share it.
After Mass and tour (and confession) we went to Galway for free time to explore this famous city, find great places for lunch pubs and restaurants and then back to our lovely coastal city of Westport for a free evening.
On this second full day of the trip we tried to give people some free time after their long flights and full first day.