Experience Deeper Union with Christ: Easter Pilgrimage in Italy, 2023
We begin in Assisi: You’ve already started by preparing and coming away from your daily hustle and bustle. Arriving at the Fiumicino Airport, Deborah meets you at the gate as you exit customs with your luggage—you walk right through the “nothing to declare” line. We may have a quick morning [...]
Celebrate Christ’s birth by looking forward to the Resurrection
A unique Easter pilgrimage incorporates prayerful preparation before the feast. December 15, 2022 The Catholic Church designates the entire week before Easter as a “Holy Week.” It is a time to prepare our hearts for the remembrance of Christ’s supreme sacrifice for our salvation, and for the great feast [...]
Italy: Journeying toward the Face of Christ
The “Poor Man of Assisi” can help us fix our gaze upon the Crucified One December 1, 2022 St. Francis of Assisi is one of the most well-known of Catholic saints, founder of one of the largest and oldest religious orders in the world, a figure immediately recognizable in [...]
Italy: Miracles of Mercy
Places where the physical world manifests the spiritual in miraculous ways November 24, 2022 Italy is famous for many spectacular sights – wonders of art, architecture, music, culture and cuisine – in addition to its wonders of nature – majestic mountain ranges, placid lakes, bucolic countrysides and sunny seashores. [...]
Ireland: Saints and Scholars
Ireland is a land of rich history and culture, yes – but also a deeply Catholic spirit November 17, 2022 Ireland...the bucolic Emerald Isle...It has lush, green pastures that rise and fall in gentle hills, and yet it also has a rawness as you look inland, to heathland, bogs, [...]
Discovering Mary in the Heartland: Holy Hill Shrine and Basilica of our Lady Help of Christians (Part 3)
Holy Hill, Hubertus, WI As we Discover Mary in the Heartland along the Wisconsin Way, we will visit the beloved Wisconsin pilgrimage destination, Holy Hill Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, in Hubertus, Wisconsin. Below is an outline of the history of this beautiful [...]