Christmas in the Holy Land
I hope you had a Merry Christmas and you have many blessings in 2015!! WARNING: Reading this post could inspire you to make a pilgrimage! As many of you know, this past Christmas break I spent almost two weeks in the Holy Land visiting the sites of many of the Gospel accounts as well as walking in the footsteps of Our Lord. The pilgrimage was an incredibly blessed experience, and I am beyond grateful that the NAC is committed to having a faculty member lead this trip each year, as they realize how beneficial a pilgrimage to the Holy Land is to priestly formation and the spiritual life. The pilgrimage in the footsteps of Christ is definitely going to have an impact on how I read and pray with the Scriptures, as it already has, and the graces from the different Holy sites will be unpacked for a while to come, both in my personal prayer time as well as with my Spiritual Director. I've been contemplating the best way to blog about the pilgrimage---and what I've decid...