Travel

Day 8 of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage with Steve and Janet Ray from the Footprints of God pilgrimages. Today there was an optional day to visit the Jordan Valley, Jericho and the Dead Sea. We were able to visit a…

Day 7 of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage with Steve and Janet Ray from the Footprints of God pilgrimages. Today our day started with mass at the Garden of Gethsemane at the Basilica of the Agony. On our way into the church…

Day 6 of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage with Steve and Janet Ray from the Footprints of God pilgrimages. Today was an overwhelming, but powerful and grace filled day. Our day started very early with a wake up call of 4:15…

Day 5 of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage with Steve and Janet Ray from the Footprints of God pilgrimages. Today we traveled to Bethlehem. I expected to see the birthplace of Jesus and then visit the cute little town where it…

Day 4 of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage with Steve and Janet Ray from the Footprints of God pilgrimages. Today we started out with a boat ride across the Sea of Galilee. The boat was modeled from a fishing boat used during…

Day 3 of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage with Steve and Janet Ray from the Footprints of God pilgrimages. Today was truly a grace filled day! In the morning we traveled to the location of the Sermon on the Mount. Father…

Day 2 of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage with Steve and Janet Ray from the Footprints of God pilgrimages. Today we rose before sunrise to travel to Mount Tabor, the place where Jesus was transfigured before Peter, James and…

Today is day one of the Catholic Digest Holy Land Pilgrimage! I am very blessed to be on this trip and I will be blogging through out the week to give you a firsthand experience of all the holy sites. All the Catholic Digest pilgrims…

El Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday) Today is the day I finally saw Seville’s Holy Week in action. I had spent 22 hours just traveling here, having gotten up at 4:45 a.m. yesterday on the other side of the Atlantic. Then, after a much-needed…

In the September issue of Catholic Digest, we featured a story on Brother André — the first Canadian-born man to be declared a saint — and St. Joseph’s Oratory, which Brother André founded in 1904. This photo essay includes photos of the…