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A Pre-Holy Week Pilgrimage

Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer April 6, AD2026 1 Comment

Just before Holy Week I was able to go on pilgrimage with some of the American students I teach in Rome. It was a very

A Jubilee Pilgrimage and Venerable Antonietta Meo

Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer December 27, AD2025 3 Comments

As the Jubilee Year wound down, I was able to make a pilgrimage to Rome with several families from my parish. This is very late

Pilgrimage to Camino de Santiago

Alexandra Greeley October 16, AD2025 No Comments

What is a pilgrimage? Many people may think of a pilgrimage as a journey to some celebrity destination. But for most Catholics, a pilgrimage is

Catholic Pilgrimage Destinations in the U.S.

Genesius January 22, AD2025 1 Comment

In gathering spaces before and after mass, it’s common to find at least one posting for a pilgrimage abroad. Italy and the Holy Land are

Spiritual Transformation as Training

Tom Collingwood December 5, AD2024 2 Comments

Two questions that arise in our RCIA meetings and in impromptu religious discussions are: Why doesn’t God just show himself and explain everything for us?

We Didn’t Know We’d Be Pilgrims

Mary Ennis Meo November 18, AD2023 5 Comments

For our fortieth wedding anniversary, my husband and I traveled to New England. Autumn leaves painted the Berkshires and the Green Mountains like a multicolored

Take Advantage of Travel to Practice Catholic Traditions

Genesius December 23, AD2022 1 Comment

Our modern world has become very mobile. Most of us think nothing of driving to the grocery store to get staples such as eggs, bread,

Lent in the Holy Land

Joe Tevington March 1, AD2022 1 Comment

Ash Wednesday of 2017 fell on March 1. On March 7, my wife and I were on a plane from Newark, New Jersey to Tel

Pilgrimages to the Two Little Towns of Bethlehem

Joe Tevington December 17, AD2021 4 Comments

In the early 2010s, my wife and I frequently drove an hour from Pennsylvania’s Bucks County to the Lehigh Valley, best known to many from

In Transit at the Airport of Life’s Journey

Barbara Padolina January 1, AD2020 No Comments

“The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation. Sometimes the Lord has to do it quickly, as he did with the good thief:

Walking Where Christ Walked in The Holy Land

Marty Dybicz November 29, AD2019 4 Comments

I have just returned from one of the greatest experiences, adventures, and blessings of my life. I went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Medjugorje – Manifestations, Adoration, Expectations, Fruits

Dom Cingoranelli October 19, AD2019 15 Comments

There we were—all 7,000-plus of us—engaged in Eucharistic Adoration at the outdoor altar of St. James, the parish church in Medjugorje. At Benediction, the priest

Our Lady of Good Help – A Preeminent Pilgrimage Site

Dom Cingoranelli September 20, AD2019 3 Comments

“Gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation.” Our Lady of Good Help gave this mission to

Take a Little Trip

Pete Socks June 6, AD2019 1 Comment

What if you could take some time away to do some traveling? Where would you go? Would it be a trip to see historic sites?

Making Summer Travel More Catholic

Marty Dybicz June 1, AD2019 1 Comment

As you make or finalize your plans for summer travel, you could and perhaps should include visiting one or more shrines or sacred places. One

The Camino de Santiago is Life

Trish Irvine July 2, AD2018 2 Comments

On July 2, 2014, I walked into Santiago de Compostela, the Camino de Santiago, completing five hundred miles of pilgrimage with great jubilance and much