Invierno Esta Veniendo

Three Years Further on

At the abrazos

Wishing all readers a Blessed Feast of Santiago this Holy Year, as we continue our pilgrimage to our heavenly homeland.

Sunday. Santiago. Holy Year.

Feast of St. Benedict

Though for most, falling as it does on Passion Sunday, the feast of the father of Western monasticism is an uncelebrated memorial, for the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest it is celebrated on March 22 as a first class feast.

Three years ago, my wife and I were privileged to celebrate our patronal feast at the Institute’s motherhouse and seminary in Gricigliano, Italy.

Thankful for that and for all other graces granted by Our loving Father, I wish all of you, particularly those members of the Institute who read this, a blessed Feast day tomorrow.

St. Benedict of Nursia, pray for us!

Tres Años

Para abrazos

el apóstol

Three Years Ago

Ferrol, Spain, on the North Atlantic Coast— the beginning of the Camino Inglés

Today, three years ago, I started my only Camino de Santiago to date, in an all too brief period on the way to visit our son in Venice. I pray to get back, but am sanguine as to the possibilities. Even that one Camino Ingles changed my life forever. To join an 800+ year company of peregrinos is something that makes a difference in a fundamental way. There isn’t a day that goes by without my reflecting on being a pilgrim and this current state of pilgrimage-wherever I happen to be.

To anyone reading this, I cannot urge you strongly enough to make pilgrimage. Buen Camino!

Photo credit: Our Boat Leaves the Harbor