By: Joe and Connie Micatrotto Earlier, in October 2016, we joined six other Area Councillors and Cardinal Roger Mahony and his family on a wonderful pilgrimage to the Holy Land that put us all on a spiritual whirlwind. We credit Cardinal Mahony and our fellow 27 pilgrims with providing us the impetus to answer the
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By: Joe Micatrotto The old saying “not our first rodeo” would have seemed appropriate for the Catholic Travel Centre’s (CTC) Cardinal Mahony’s Holy Land Pilgrimage of October 4-10, 2014. After all, this was our third trip to the Holy Land in less than six years and we had “already” visited so many sites. Wrong! Oh, do
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It was only a short bus trip down the hill from from Assisi to the beautiful Santa Maria degli Angeli, a beautiful basilica constructed around a house famed to have been built in the 300s AD from relics of the original house where the Assumption of Our Lady took place. It is said this is
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While we all visit Assisi for the town’s notable contribution of the great Saints Francis and Clare, we could have easily spent days atop this old world town and it’s surrounding countryside. This is Italy at its finest: old shops full of icons, keepsakes and unique mementos, side streets of cobblestone, and cafes and eateries
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On Monday, 26 May 2014, Pope Francis delivered a homily from the Upper Room (Jerusalem): The Upper Room speaks to us of service, of Jesus giving the disciples an example by washing their feet. Washing one another’s feet signifies welcoming, accepting, loving and serving one another. It means serving the poor, the sick and the outcast,
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