The Pilgrim’s Journey

A Jordan River baptism on pilgrimage is a renewal, not a repeat. Here is how to prepare your pilgrims, lead the rite at the water, and help them come home by a different way.

Under one roof in Jerusalem stand Calvary and the empty tomb, a few dozen steps apart. What the Catholic pilgrim sees there that the tourist walks past.

Ask a priest what changed after his parish went on pilgrimage and he rarely starts with the sites. He starts with the parish, and the families who now pray together.

Mary walked this ground before it was anyone’s pilgrimage route—a girl in Nazareth, a young mother on the road to Bethlehem, a grieving woman at the foot of the Cross in Jerusalem. To follow the Marian sites in the Holy Land is to trace the

On the last free night of his life, Jesus did not look for a quiet room. He went outside the city wall, crossed the Kidron Valley, and climbed a little way up the Mount of Olives to a grove where olives were crushed for their

The sixth day is often when something gives. The group has settled into bus seats and dining-table groupings. The early-trip courtesies have thinned. Someone has started to grate on someone else. A small grievance from yesterday has fermented overnight, and at breakfast it slips into