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…
I did promise to post pictures of my week long silent retreat at the Cistercian (Trappists) Monastery, New Clairvaux, in Northern California. I discovered this remote monastery last year when the New York Times featured an article about their Sacred…
(previously published in The Catholic Voice) Five years ago, my family and I went on a pilgrimage through the south of France to the Grotto of Lourdes where Mary spoke the words — “I am the Immaculate Conception” — words…
I’m leaving Molinaseca with a sense of magic on the Camino de Santiago. I suppose it was always there. But I’m just noticing it now. Last night I had dinner with a group of pilgrims, a young German woman that…
The rain on the plateau of Spain’s Meseta has left the pilgrim’s route a muddy runway cutting through the farm fields . The mud cakes to my shoes, building up on the soles and sides of my feet, adding weight…
Boarding a bus bound for Burgos, the driver opens the luggage compartment and Pilgrims toss bicycles, backpacks and poles into the cavernous space. Locals are piling into the bus, briefcases in hand. It’s Monday morning and day twelve of my…