Category: 2013 May

Walking With Grace Wednesday: A Refuge In The Desert

While visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a photography workshop I wondered into a shop called The Monks Corner. It’s a pleasant little shop with handmade soaps and jam. Books written by spiritual masters line the shelves, gilded icons peer…

The Folded Umbrella

On Friday I received an email, like on most days, from Flickr saying one of my contacts has uploaded a new photo. The photo was the one shown here, taken by a priest who resides in England. It is such…

Saints and Relics: Mother Cabrini Shrine

We Catholics have a corner on the market of relics; that is to say we have exhumed, collected, horded, stolen, traded and bought, (not to mention stashed, hidden, coveted and fought over) the body parts of Saints!Throughout Europe there are…

Making Every Journey A Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage, by definition, is a journey to a sacred place or one made out of devotion. We don’t all have weeks on end to hike the Santiago, devote a week at Medjugorie, or meditate in some distant place to…