Bologna and Cheese, Two Seas, Our Family Trees (And, Of Course, The "Usual" Saints and Eucharistic Miracles!) Dear Reader, This is #2 in our series of travelogues all around Italy,…
Dear Reader, This is #1 in our series of travelogues all around Italy, the UK, and Ireland from October 2024 through June 2025. This opening one largely lets the pictures…
Michelangelo, St. Luke, and the World's Longest Portico Saint Luke's Madonna, Painted by the Evanglist. Bologna is world-renowned for its food, home to ragu, lasagne, and pink-hued mortadella. We arrived with…
The premiere of The Pendragon Cycle (January 22, 2026) takes us back to the "Dark Ages" of Britain. Unlike the polished knights of later medieval tales, this series draws from…
Candlemas: The Feast of Light As the last of the Christmas decorations have been packed away (for most of us), and the austere Lent is appearing on the horizon, many…
How to Turn Your Threshold into a Sacramental for 2026, where everyone that enters will be blessed.
“San Gennaro, protettore di Napoli!” The elderly women, called parenti, had been zealously and faithfully chanting all day, right up to that fateful moment when the chapel erupted in cheers…
York: A Pilgrimage Through Catholic England York was a pleasant surprise; we were not expecting a rich Catholic experience there. Instead, my mind was on Yorkshire pudding and cask-conditioned ales…
Background and the Bubble After our pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe, followed by our practical guide, and book review of Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy, we received questions…
The Flower World Prophecy "In the land of heaven, birds sing flowers, Their music unfolds petals of light, My song gathers the divine bouquet." -excerpt of Nahua paradise flower song…