While on a trip to Lacrosse, Wisconsin, to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, seminarian Patrick Storms heard about a seminarian’s 238-mile pilgrimage from Our Lady of Guadalupe’s shrine to the shrine of Our Lady of Champion. Inspired by this, Storms wanted to do something similar.
A devotion to the Virgin Mary inspired two seminarians in the Twin Cities to share a pilgrimage in body and spirit. They planned to walk more than 150 miles from the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Major cities and country parishes alike are preparing for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage's Marian Route to make its way over the course of eight weeks through the Midwest, from northern Minnesota through Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remained hospitalized for COVID-19 but as of Aug. 21 he was taken off a ventilator that he had been on for some days and taken out of the ICU to be returned to a regular hospital room, according to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse.
We need to think of the life of faith as a journey. When we say “yes” to the Lord, he invites us to follow him, which implies a pilgrimage of discovery and interior growth.
While Pope Benedict XVI delivers his message to the bishops and political leaders of Mexico, the faith of the Mexican people is unlikely to be affected by those conversations.
Two busloads of teens from St. Pius V in Cannon Falls pulled into the parking lot of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wis., the morning of Sept. 11.
