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The End of Summer

September 2, 2019 · Filed Under: Places · Tagged With: biking, Boston, summer, training

sunny path

Today would be a beautiful day if it weren’t the end of summer. Labor Day is here, which most of New England uses to mark the end of the warm, leisurely season. It’s a quiet, sunny day. Taking advantage of the empty roads this morning I set off on my bike, trying new paths, bravingContinue reading >>

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Holy Newness

April 15, 2019 · Filed Under: faith, Places · Tagged With: Boston, Cathedral, faith, Holy Week, hope, liturgical calendar, Notre-Dame, Paris

Cathedral Interior

Yesterday I visited the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston on the occasion of its reopening after a two-year renovation. The mood was celebratory as many of us wandered the bright, shiny sanctuary whose cosmetic improvements were matched by structural and safety upgrades to ensure the building’s longevity. On the way home I passedContinue reading >>

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In hac lacrimarum valle

July 31, 2018 · Filed Under: faith, Places · Tagged With: faith, ignatius, Loyola, Mary, pilgrimage, prayer, saints, Salve Regina, Spain, travel

To you we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to you we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Quite close to St Ignatius’s childhood home in Loyola is a shrine to Our Lady of Olatz. He is believed to have visited this shrine as a boy, and again onContinue reading >>

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Ignatius and me in Barcelona: Companionship, reliance and faith

July 19, 2018 · Filed Under: faith, Health, Places · Tagged With: Barcelona, crohn's, family, friends, ignatius, pilgrimage, travel

He was afraid that if he had a companion with him, he would lose some of that supreme trust in God, deflecting it onto his companion. – Pedro de Ribadeneira, writing of Ignatius’s travel from Manresa to Barcelona en route to the Holy Land, in The Life of Ignatius Loyola At a certain point inContinue reading >>

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Restoration

July 7, 2018 · Filed Under: faith, People, Places · Tagged With: faith, grief, ignatius, pilgrimage, prayer, saints, travel

Ignatius's birthplace

Not far from the Sanctuary of Loyola, near St. Ignatius’ family home, pilgrims can visit the Magdalene Chapel. When Ignatius returned to his homeland having fallen ill in Paris in April 1535, he stayed in Azpeitia, a neighboring village, living with the sick and the indigent at the Magdalene hospital and praying at the nearbyContinue reading >>

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