The Pilgrim’s Journey

A young soldier cut his cloak in two on a freezing night and met Christ in the beggar he clothed. St. Martin of Tours shows first-time pilgrims what to expect on the road.

A Jordan River baptism on pilgrimage is a renewal, not a repeat. Here is how to prepare your pilgrims, lead the rite at the water, and help them come home by a different way.

On the morning of September 20, 1918, a young Capuchin friar knelt in the choir loft of a small stone church in the Gargano hills, making his thanksgiving after Mass. When he rose, his hands, feet, and side bore open wounds that would not close

The boat won’t sail and the basilica is closed. Whether a disruption becomes a wound or a grace depends less on logistics than on the kind of traveler each person believed they were.

Roughly three in ten pilgrims who reach Santiago begin in Sarria, at the last 100 kilometers. Why that stretch still counts, what each stage asks of you, and what the Compostela cannot certify.

Eight minutes at dawn in Lourdes, before pilgrims whose hearts are already open. What Our Lady said at Lourdes and Fatima, and how to preach it so it lasts past the flight home.