How to Plant Christendom In Your Parish Community Next Year
The pilgrims pray for Christendom, that is to pray for the teaching of the Gospels to inspire our human society, in its legislation, in its culture, practices and customs.
The Pilgrimage for Restoration
There were four altars dedicated one each to the Martyrs of Ossernenon and to St. Kateri Tekakwitha, born of their blood.
Pilgrimage to Częstochowa with the SSPX
Seeing old ladies with tears in their eyes as they watched us pass was rather overwhelming.
The Great Tradition of Christian Pilgrimage
Thus, pilgrimages were bittersweet events, where the thrill of adventure was mixed with the challenges that naturally entailed long journeys.
El Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrimage Story
“In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.” Proverbs 3:6 I’m a walker. I walk all over the place. As a teen, I walked almost two miles to high school every morning. I took up “city hiking” in my twenties, long before it became “urban hiking.” These days, I still walk and…
The German ‘Synodal Path’ and the Road to Emmaus
On January 30, with the first assembly in Frankfurt, the “Synodal Path” of the German Catholic Church reform begins — a “journey” without the observance of canonical regulations that a real synod would require. During the next two years, the 230 members, including 69 bishops and 69 lay persons (progressive) of the Central Committee of…
“Is She Not Our Mother?” – A Story Of Pilgrimage To Our Lady Of Guadalupe
The sun was blinding in a cloudless sky. As I drove the little red Nissan pickup down the barren stretch of desert highway, I noticed something up ahead. A checkpoint. A group of dark-skinned men in military fatigues manned their posts. Sandbags protected machine gun emplacements, and there was at least one Humvee parked near the…
In Search of The Curé: A Small Pilgrimage to Ars
It was the last weekend in October, 1999, and my friends and I were on a four-day break from classes at Franciscan University’s Austrian campus. We had journeyed half-way across Europe to Normandy, France, stopping first in Bayeux on that Thursday to see the magnificent 11th-century cathedral and its eponymous, world-famous “tapestry“. After a night spent trying to…