My adult faith had never been lower than the first time I set my big, wide Irish feet on actual Irish soil. My beloved grandmother had passed away a few months before the trip. I’d inherited her rosary, the one on which each bead represented to her one member of her family of nine children … Read More
Our Lady of Silence: A Pilgrimage to Knock
By Erin McCole Cupp “Uncomfortable silence” is a phrase that has taken on multiple meanings of late. We can’t drive without the radio playing. We can’t sit anywhere without the buzzing of this text or that notification. We can’t even let our minds be quiet for more than thirty seconds before we pull out the … Read More
Pope Francis calls to Cardinal Farrell on World Meeting of Families
Pope Francis has written a letter to the organizers of next year’s World Meeting of Families. In the letter addressed to Cardinal Kevin Farrell, head of the new Vatican office for Laity, Family and Life, the Pope says he hopes the Meeting will be a way for families to deepen their reflection on the document … Read More
Are You Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day?
Saint Patrick’s Day is often associated with overindulgence and festive celebrations. With a cry of “Everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!” people flood local pubs and drink Guinness and green beer, eat corned beef and cabbage, watch parades and dye rivers green. These customs are quite different from historical celebrations of this holy day and … Read More
The Town Built on a Miracle – Our Lady of Knock Shrine, Ireland
Our friends and partners at the Catholic Irish Shrine of Our Lady of Knock have asked us to help them promote and raise funds for the final stages of their video documentary about the approved Marian apparition pilgrimage site. So we obliged. Enjoy; and consider making a pilgrimage with us to Ireland and/or donation to … Read More
Cardinal Dolan summarizes Tekton Ministries’ mission and vision at Our Lady of Knock during his Ireland Pilgrimage
Cardinal Dolan posted to his blog: “This comes to you from the Shrine of Knock, in Ireland, on a pilgrimage with 150 others from the archdiocese and elsewhere. It was here, on August 23, 1879, that our Blessed Mother, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist, and the “Lamb of God” appeared to dozens of stunned, … Read More
Cardinal Dolan leads 180 on pilgrimage from New York to Our Lady of Knock, Ireland
(Catholic Herald) Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has led 180 pilgrims from the US city to Ireland’s Knock Shrine. The pilgrimage is the first from New York to the shrine in County Mayo, and the chartered flight is the first transatlantic service to the nearby airport in eight years. Welcoming the cardinal and the … Read More
Annual pilgrimage up Ireland’s Croagh Patrick mountain cancelled for first time in recent history due to treacherous weather
(Catholic Herald) Ireland’s most celebrated annual pilgrimage, the Reek Sunday ascent of Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, was cancelled because of severe weather on Sunday. Local residents could not remember the pilgrimage ever being cancelled. Each year on the last Sunday in July, some 30,000 pilgrims ascend the rocky mountain overlooking Clew Bay in commemoration … Read More
