Even though my stay in Assisi was brief and botched and harried, I still remember it as a high point of my life. Especially because I met St. Francis there.
I just had a great pilgrimage with traditional Latin Masses everyday to the sites honoring Catholic missionaries and the many thousands of fervent laypeople who suffered for their faith, with SacredHeartTours.com. My story wasn't a complaint about a bad tour leader but a memoir with the high of "meeting" St. Francis in Assisi and St. Peter in Rome, . Sometimes you have to take things as they come. And the great memories stay with you.
Thanks Adrienne for the tip. Your experience in Italy with Steve Ray sounds excellent. I did get to go to one of those big public audiences with Pope John Paul II, and a highlight was a tour of the Scavi under St. Peter's where I was thrilled to find myself within 12 feet of St. Peter's bones. I recently got back from a pilgrimage to Japan with Sacred Heart Tours, and it was great. It was led by Japanese Canon Ueda from our San Jose Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory. He is from the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest and we had traditional Latin Masses every day.
Gee, Roseanne, hope you get a better pilgrimage or tour group in future. At least you had that midnight Mass with John Paul II when most of world was Y2K crazy!
Steve Ray does amazing pilgrimages and no stupid rushing. Our 2010 pilgrimage started in Turin Cathedral for the Shroud (shrine to Giorgio Frasatti there plus Don Bosco nearby), went to Assisi, Loreto (Mary’s house), Lanciano (Eucharistic miracle), San Giovanni Rotundo for Padre Pio, the cave of St. Michael, then the miraculous Veil of Manopello, all before three amazing days in Rome with Pope Benedict audience. Special Mass there at Church of Saint Augustine for St Rita on May 22. And daily Mass at all those places. I would return to Manopello for one week, easily. But you don’t need a tour for that. Italy is meant to be slowly savored.
I just had a great pilgrimage with traditional Latin Masses everyday to the sites honoring Catholic missionaries and the many thousands of fervent laypeople who suffered for their faith, with SacredHeartTours.com. My story wasn't a complaint about a bad tour leader but a memoir with the high of "meeting" St. Francis in Assisi and St. Peter in Rome, . Sometimes you have to take things as they come. And the great memories stay with you.
Thanks Adrienne for the tip. Your experience in Italy with Steve Ray sounds excellent. I did get to go to one of those big public audiences with Pope John Paul II, and a highlight was a tour of the Scavi under St. Peter's where I was thrilled to find myself within 12 feet of St. Peter's bones. I recently got back from a pilgrimage to Japan with Sacred Heart Tours, and it was great. It was led by Japanese Canon Ueda from our San Jose Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory. He is from the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest and we had traditional Latin Masses every day.
Gee, Roseanne, hope you get a better pilgrimage or tour group in future. At least you had that midnight Mass with John Paul II when most of world was Y2K crazy!
Steve Ray does amazing pilgrimages and no stupid rushing. Our 2010 pilgrimage started in Turin Cathedral for the Shroud (shrine to Giorgio Frasatti there plus Don Bosco nearby), went to Assisi, Loreto (Mary’s house), Lanciano (Eucharistic miracle), San Giovanni Rotundo for Padre Pio, the cave of St. Michael, then the miraculous Veil of Manopello, all before three amazing days in Rome with Pope Benedict audience. Special Mass there at Church of Saint Augustine for St Rita on May 22. And daily Mass at all those places. I would return to Manopello for one week, easily. But you don’t need a tour for that. Italy is meant to be slowly savored.