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Musings Suddenly, it was over. Years of dreaming. Months of planning. Twenty eight days and now we are flying back over the Atlantic to the place we call home. This is why they say the days are [...]

Papa, Papa As the Pope’s car approached, I could hear “Papa, Papa” in the midst of prayers, calls, “hello’s” and “look at me’s” in this modest crowd of 50,000 or 60,000 people. Being off-season, [...]

Destroy me, O Lord, and upon my ruins build a monument to your glory. St. Laura of Jesus Musings “Everywhere you turn, something beautiful has been built upon the ruins of something else.” [...]

Musings For the first time in nearly a month, the cafe was waiting for me. Welcome to Rome. I’m sitting at a table outside a little cafe on a cobblestone Roman side street with a Taxi rolling [...]

Musings Today, we begin the final stretch of our journey. Rome, the Eternal City, beckons with its treasures and its mysteries. The last three weeks have flown by but time has caught up and I [...]

Immersion Waking this morning, I feel baptized in the depth of time and distance along a horizon bridging faith and history. The sense of immersion is so complete that it is like a touch on the [...]

Musings I awoke today realizing that I take my health for granted. More specifically, I take good health for granted. In general, I feel pretty good, I move pretty well, and I rarely get sick. [...]

Musings It has been said that home is where the heart is. And yet, we put our “heart” into many things: our work, our family, our hobbies, our faith, our friends, perhaps even our travels. Our [...]

Musings When was the last time you were lost? Since getting to Italy, I’ve been lost a few times, made a few wrong turns, and found myself disoriented, on numerous occasions. The unfamiliar has a [...]

Musings Sitting in Mass in the 1400 year old Basilica di San Marco, I felt swept away in time and faith and reality. The Italian woman who stood up and shuffled to the lectern for the Reading and [...]