Faithful Traveling
Tips, Trips, and Stories From My Faithful Travels
Preparing for the Holy Land
This week, I find myself yet again embarking on a trip/pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This trip is unexpected, I'll be honest. While I have been planning a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for quite some...
Jordan, Israel, and Palestine on my Mind
Update on My Activities Since I gave up social media for Lent, I have felt extremely isolated. Life is very quiet when you work from home, have tons of work to do, and aren't on social media.Add the...
Remembering Professor Charles E. Rice
On Wednesday night, February 25th, my beloved Torts professor and mentor, Charles E. Rice passed away. Since finding out that evening, I have been thinking about and praying for him and his family...
Heroic Suffering
"Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically." --St. Anthony Mary Claret When I moved to New York City, I knew no one--ok,...
Special Guest: Ivelis Fortune and Offering it Up
Today is Tuesday, you know what that means? We're gonna have a special guest! Today's special guest is a friend I met through Facebook and through The Faithful Traveler. Rick and Ivelis (aka Evie)...
Living in Bethlehem, Where it All Began
Did you hear that we're organizing a pilgrimage to the Holy Land this April? It's going to be awesome! As part of the excitement leading up to this trip, I'm speaking with people who have either...
Talking Music and Poetry with Isabel Marcheselli
When I was editing the first episodes of The Faithful Traveler, I made the decision to add music to the series and I asked all of my friends if they knew someone who wrote music. That's how I met...
Do Something: Letting Obstacles Become the Way
Life can be overwhelming. Sometimes, it throws too much good at you. Or bad. Other times, despite what life throws at you, whatever is left inside of you after the last bout of things life threw at...
Remembering the Holocaust at Yad Vashem
On our last visit to the Holy Land, we were fortunate to visit and film at Yad Vashem, the vast and haunting holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Pope St John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis...
Meet Ikey Korin: Your Israeli KEY to the Holy Land
In May of 2014, we were blessed to travel to the Holy Land, as guests of the Israel Ministry of Tourism, to film a production on Pope Francis' pilgrimage. (That special is still in production and...
Being Nazorean: Life in the Holy Land
Readers of my blog and followers of my Facebook page have met my dear friend, Habib Karam many times. I first introduced him shortly after I'd met him in May, and he's guest blogged once before,...
Traveling Under Mary's Mantle with Ceci Triska
Today is Tuesday, you know what that means! We're gonna have a special guest! Ceci Triska runs Journeys of Faith with Ceci, and takes people on pilgrimages as often as she can. Today, she tells us...
Terrorists Will Not Stop Us From Traveling: An Interview with Saliba Danho
Born and raised in the heart of Jerusalem, not far from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Saliba Danho knows the Holy Land better than anyone I have ever met. As President of Voice of Faith Tours,...
Philadelphia’s National Shrine of St John Neumann
Today is the memorial of St John Nepomucene Neumann, Philadelphia’s fourth bishop and our country’s first male saint. In celebration of his memorial, I wrote a post about our shrine here in...
How Pilgrimage Changes You
... from then on, all of those people who had heretofore been complete strangers now shared a bond that only others who had been on the same pilgrimage could understand. They’d go home, I told them,...
Tuesday Guest Star #2: Habib Karam on Nazareth's Basilica of the Annunciation
Today is Tuesday! You know what that means? We're gonna have a special guest! Today's special guest star is Habib Karam, a dear friend whom I was blessed to meet online, and then in person this past...
San Martin de Porres and his Broom
For as long as I've known, my mom has had this statue of St Martin de Porres. She doesn't know who gave it to her, and she's not quite sure why she has it. But he's still there. She took the photo...
All Souls Day and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
All Souls Day is the official day set aside by the Church to commemorate and pray for the dead. Of course, Catholics are always--or should be always--praying for the dead, no matter what day it is....
How Travel Can Help Us Become Saints
It's been almost two weeks since my husband David and I returned from our whirlwind tour of Portugal as we filmed our next series, The Faithful Traveler in Portugal. It was such a spectacular trip,...
Pray for the Dead, the Dead will Pray for You
As the month of October quickly comes to a close, my first thought is WHERE DID IT GO?! Wasn’t it just Summer? Did I pray enough rosaries? Then, I accept the fact that winter is upon us and my...