Faith, Travel, and the Call to Walk in Christ's Footsteps
The Journey to Christmas
It was late when my plane touched down in Tel Aviv, but after years of anticipation, I had finally made it – I was in...
Once a Pilgrim, Ordinary Time is Never Ordinary Again
Every pilgrim knows that once you’ve been to the Holy Land, “Ordinary Time” is never ordinary again. You can’t walk in the footsteps of Our...
From the Nativity to Calvary: Mary’s Faithful Journey
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that the whole world should be enrolled. So, all went to be enrolled, each to...
Immovable Ladder – The Ladder That Hasn’t Moved in Hundreds of Years
For 250 years, a ladder has stood almost unmoved, a symbol of division and the aspiration for healing....
St. John the Baptist: Cousin, Outcast, Commencer
The Man A distant cousin of Jesus, John makes his first appearance in the Gospels when the angel Gabriel first announces his conception to Elizabeth...
Simon “The Rock” Peter – The Stones that Symbolize the First Papacy
Found in Tabgha along the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee, not far from where the multiplication of the loaves and fishes took place, is...