There’s a quiet church I’ve never been to—but my heart already knows it. It sits nestled in a small English village, stone walls weathered by time, ivy creeping toward the bell tower, and a wooden door that creaks open like an invitation. I haven’t walked its aisle. I haven’t heard its choir. But in my … Continue reading Pilgrimage: The Sacred in the Small Places
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Pilgrimage: I Don’t Fit in a Box, and Maybe That’s the Point
I used to think I was all over the place when it came to church. Raised Catholic by a dad who didn’t trust the changes after Vatican II, we were what some call “CEO Catholics”—Christmas and Easter Only. I took the sacraments at home, guided by his old Baltimore Catechism, not in a classroom with … Continue reading Pilgrimage: I Don’t Fit in a Box, and Maybe That’s the Point