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b"**Listen to the show:**\\n\\n[Subscribe for free in iTunes](http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-catholic-life/id425362545)\\n\\n**Today's host(s):** Scot Landry\\n\\n**Today's guest(s):** Fr. Roger Landry, Domenico Bettinelli, and George Martell\\n\\n* [WYDMadridBoston.com](http://www.wydmadridboston.com)\\n* [Flickr.com/BostonCatholic](http://www.flickr.com/bostoncatholic)\\n* [Pope Benedict's Address to Young People during Saturday night vigil](http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2011/august/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20110820_veglia-madrid_en.html)\\n* [Welcoming Words and Homily from World Youth Day Mass on Sunday](http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20110821_xxvi-gmg-madrid_en.html)\\n* [Sunday Angelus Message](http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/angelus/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20110821_xxvi-gmg-madrid_en.html)\\n\\n**Today's topics:** World Youth Day wrap-up\\n\\n**Summary of today's show:** Fr. Roger Landry, Dom Bettinelli, and George Martell wrap up coverage of World Youth Day with reflections on their experience of the dramatic Saturday night vigil, including the wild weather, and Mass with Pope Benedict XVI and 1.5 million people on Sunday.\\n\\n**1st segment:** Scot welcomed everyone to the show. Last week, we spent a lot of time talking about World Youth Day, but the most important activities happened on Saturday and Sunday during the Vigil and Mass with Pope Benedict. Dom and George are in studio and Fr. Roger Landry, who took more than 30 people from his parish to Portugal and Spain.\\n\\nScot asked Fr. Roger about his pilgrimage's route. They started in Lisbon, because so many in his parish have Portuguese ancestry, they had Mass at the birthplace of St. Anthony of Padua, the patron of their saint. They then went to Fatima where they spent parts of three days. He had his young people prepare talks of 10 minutes each because they were missing the catecheses of World Youth Day. The youths were blown away by how poor Francisco, Lucia, and Jacinta were. The kids said they came to know how much the Blessed Mother intercedes for them. Participating in a candlelight procession of the Stations of the Cross was very moving for them.\\n\\nThey then went to Santiago de Compestela, where St. James the Greater, the apostle, is buried. Most of the kids said the best part of the pilgrimage was visiting the tomb of an apostle and celebrate Mass there. Fr. Roger made an analogy between the thickness of the pillars of Santiago the church with how sturdy and deeply rooted their faith should be.\\n\\n* [Santiago de Compestela](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela)\\n\\nFr. Roger explained why Santiago de Compestela became a big pilgrimage spot in the Middle Ages, and why people still walk the way of the pilgrimage for up to 500 miles. It's still a place of enormous graces for the pilgrims.\\n\\nAfterward, they saw the Cathedral of Leon, Spain and stayed in the city of Vallodalid. They visited Segovia and the tomb of St. John of the Cross. He's had a big impact on Fr. Roger. He considers St. John to be the greatest teacher in the Church after Christ. He charted the interior life, how God takes on a journey of prayer. Three stages of prayer are the purgative, the illuminative, and the unitive.\\n\\n* [The Three Ways of the Interior Life](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14254a.htm)\\n\\nThey then went to [Valles en los caidos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Ca%C3%ADdos), the Valley of the Fallen. Francisco Franco, the Spanish leader during the Spanish Civil War, built a church inside a mountain that is the longest in the world.\\n\\nThey went to El Escorial, where Pope Benedict spoke to young religious. They visited Avila, where St. Theresa of Avila is from. They visited to Toledo and the last three days they spent in Madrid.\\n\\n**2nd segment:** *A complete transcript of today's show will be available on Thursday morning*"