churches
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Santa Maria Maggiore
On my first trip to Italy, I only had time to see three of the four major basilicas. I knew that when I’d one day return, St. Mary Major (or, in Italiano, Santa Maria Maggiore) would be my first stop. I promise that when we planned this year’s pilgrimage I didn’t know it was a… Continue reading
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St. Anthony of Padua
We were in Butler to pick up a Blessed Mother statue. I’d like to say it’s a strange story, but it’s not that weird—she needed a new home, and I’ve been wanting to have one. We planned our trip around the Mass times at St. Anthony of Padua, the parish down the street. I loved… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6