Day 3 of our pilgrimage in Mexico City started just as beautiful as yesterday and a chilly 45ish degrees. Considering we left Minnesota and it was 23 or so…we felt fine. Also, we need to build more houses with flat topped roofs in the midwest. Today we spent the day with the Missionaries of Charity […]
Continue ReadingOn Day 2, the Theology II seminarians spend the day with the Sisters of Charity.
Continue ReadingWe started the day at Magdala, the town of Mary Magdalene. Behind Fr Eamon Kelly is a mural of the woman touching the hem of Jesus’s robe. Fr Eamon explains the ecumenical attraction of this holy site. The Church of the Beatitudes, atop the mountain where Jesus preached this famous sermon. Here Fr Carl is celebrating […]
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¡Hola! from Mexico City from the Theology II seminarians. Welcome to the adventures of Day 1.
Continue ReadingWell, not quite front row, but just about as close as it can be! It was fourth row seating for eight of us who were chosen to help prepare the altar and bring communion to concelebrating priests and bishops at the Papal Mass for the Epiphany of Our Lord today. The other five of our […]
Continue ReadingToday we prayed at the Church of the Transfiguration atop Mount Tabor. The three peaks in the roof are meant to evoke the three tents that Peter, James, and John offered to erect for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Andrew Rauenbuehler lectoring at Mass in the Moses Chapel. A group photo after a pilgrim lunch! […]
Continue ReadingHello from the top of Mount Tabor! The last few days have been such a gift. They’ve been filled with lots of walking, shawarma, prayer, and fraternity. We spent a day in prayer at the Basilica of the Annunciation, which was great. The walls of the cloister outside the basilica have beautiful mosaics of Our Lady, […]
Continue ReadingJohn McFadden praying at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. This church was built over the home of Mary, a cave where the Angel Gabriel visited Mary, and where she said, “Let it be to me according to your word.”
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Some of the first words most seminarians learn in Latin are “Roma in Italia est,” the first sentence of Hans Ørberg’s “Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata.” For those several of us members of the class of Theology IV who have never been to Rome before, we can now confirm the truth of the sentence: Rome […]
Continue ReadingWe met up with our guide, Farah, and toured the ruins of Caesarea Maritima. Herod the Great built this city and port in the first century BC. The Muslims destroyed it in the thirteenth century to prevent crusaders from returning and using it again. Farah explains Roman toilets, which are those slits directly behind […]
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