Just to give a little background–World Youth Day was my first hardcore pilgrimage experience. Ya know, visiting places as an act of religious devotion, and encountering God through sacred sites, seeing the universal Church, and rejoicing in it all. And World Youth Day very much comprises all those things! I’ve been to two World Youth […]
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Honestly, I struggle a lot with time. My list of things on the To Do list is always over 500 items long! From time to time, I’m in a grad school class, and that puts a lot of things on hold. Not only that, but most of my weekends are spent trying to catch up
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A big struggle for many people going on more pilgrimages is not having the cash monies to support such trips. I get it! Most of the time, pilgrimages are expensive often costing thousands of dollars especially if done as a packaged deal involving a week or more somewhere far like Europe or the Holy Land.
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Happy New Year! Hopefully the festivities didn’t get too lost in hazes of memory, and whatever recovery was necessary went smoothly! But WOW, where did time go? I feel like 2019 just snuck up on me, and 2018 is already in the rear-view mirror! Regardless, 2019 is here! Obviously, with it being a new year,
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I’m excited to bring you this edition of my pilgrimage reports on the St. John Vianney Relic Tour because it’s the first time I’m collaborating with Jason over at Light & Heavy! Just to give you a brief background, I’ve known of Jason since high school, but we’ve only ever really became friends after college
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Going on pilgrimages involve going to sacred sites as part of a religious devotion or goal. Sometimes these sacred sites are also where people can visit relics. Relics and pilgrimages go well hand in hand because major shrines and churches often house significant relics. Relics also connect us to the past or tangibly help us
Howdy, pilgrims! I’m excited to bring you the first-ever guest blog post on Pilgrim for Less! Rachel and I go way back, and I even did a pilgrimage report involving her wedding! Ever since I’ve known her, I know that she and her family have been really involved with the Schoenstatt movement. Thanks to them,
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One of the cool things about being Christian is that there’s a whole menu of religious devotions. Two such devotions, pilgrimages and retreats, are spiritually more involved and often entail something like “go here, and do this religious thing.” But pilgrimages are not exactly the same as a retreat or vice versa. Let’s take a
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If there’s one skill a savvy pilgrim should know, it ought to be… how to quickly find Mass times! Unless you’re on a packaged pilgrimage or tour-style pilgrimage with a set itinerary, then you’re probably not automatically scheduled to go to Mass somewhere. I like to do self-designed or do-it-yourself pilgrimages, and that often requires
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Somewhere in the blur that is Thanksgiving and Black Friday, the mood and aesthetic changes from “gobble, gobble” (both in turkey and $100 65” TV purchasing) to peppermints, the smell of pines, and Christmas music blasting from your carefully crafted Pandora or Spotify playlists. Rightfully so, Christmas is fastly approaching! With Christmas around the corner,
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