by Diana | Apr 22, 2011 | Behind the Scenes, Holy Land, Pilgrimage
On the seventh day of our pilgrimage to the Holy Land, my team had a casualty. David stayed in the hotel that day, because his legs had swollen from the knees down, after having fallen on the Via Dolorosa the previous morning. Our pilgrimage was almost over—we only...
by Diana | Apr 21, 2011 | Behind the Scenes, Holy Land
Since today is Holy Thursday, I thought I’d take an early detour from my sporadic blogging about our pilgrimage and jump to Day 6—the day we visited the Upper Room, where the Last Supper is said to have taken place and where Jesus instituted the Eucharist and the...
by Diana | Apr 16, 2011 | Behind the Scenes, Holy Land
We left the US around midnight on March 25th—the Feast of the Annunciation, the anniversary of our engagement (David and me), and… oddly enough, the day that the ONE RING was unmade in Mordor… yes, I am a Tolkien dork… plus I had been watching The...
by Diana | Jan 1, 2011 | Holy Land, Pilgrimage
Well. Talk about God answering your prayers, and then some. If you’ve been following our blog, you may have been wondering where we’ve been. In brief, since The Faithful Traveler debuted on EWTN in March 2010, we’ve been waiting to see if God would enable us to...