Category Archives: Pilgrimage
A Journey with Jesus: a Pilgrim’s Diary
Palm Sunday, one week to go before we twenty-seven Pilgrims depart for Turkey on a Pilgrimage Journey through the Early Christian World. Today, as we commemorate the entry of Jesus as the Messiah (= the Christ = the Anointed of … Continue reading
A Journey of Faith in Union with Mary: a Pilgrim’s Diary
Two weeks from today, Easter Sunday, April 8, twenty fellow Pilgrims from various parts of southern California will accompany me on Turkish Airlines, Flight TK 10, nonstop service from Los Angeles to Istanbul. Upon arriving late Monday afternoon, after about … Continue reading
This is the link to Angela’s website that I referred to in my homily this weekend: http://holeheartedangel.blogspot.com/. (Click the little triangle on the black bar below if you’d like to hear the homily.) She also refers to several programs that were important … Continue reading
God in a Box?
Decompartmentalizing God. Have you read anything by the “new atheists” lately? You know, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Dawkins, Sam Harris and the like. Aside from their strident, militant and obnoxious anti-religion-in-any-form ideology, I have to say that there’s a lot I agree … Continue reading
Faith Seeking Understanding: Pilgrimage
Ever since my first visit to Turkey in 2000. I have had an intense fascination with and deep love for this land and its people. There is no place on earth where ancient and modern culture and religion come together … Continue reading
