Tag: church

Mission Monday: San Antonio de Padua

The California Mission Trail runs North and South through coastal towns and the inland hills. Alto California’s “El Camino Real” or The Royal Road was the King’s highway in Spanish Colonial times. El Camino Real is now part of California’s Hwy 101…

Mission Monday: Mission Bells

As I visited this quiet little mission, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, just a few miles from California’s Highway 101 I heard this song in my head. It is title “The Mission” by The Newsboys.  I could hear the mission…

The Mary Month of May

The other day a friend stopped me in the parking lot and told me her 9-year-old son asked, “Mom, is there really such a thing as sea glass?” And my friend replied “Why yes there is, because Marylea just posted…

Making Spanish Tortilla

Awh, you miss me don’t you? Yes, I know it has been a difficult month for you without all my words of nonsense to read – my sometimes dyslexic attempt to communicate my pilgrim journey on this earth with you….

Mission Monday: Mission Delores Basilica

I leave you with one last post before I head out to serve the pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago – the road to St. James’s tomb in Santiago de Compostela. I will stay in contact via https://www.facebook.com/TheCatholicMuse?ref=hl and post…

Mission Monday: Francis

Yes, he is handsome too. Even the ceiling, windows and doors are handsome. And kind of masculine. He’s pretty old though, older than any other building in all of San Francisco. Even John Paul came to pray with him here….