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Heading back to the Holy Land! UPDATE: A message from a priest who returned this year!

by Steve Ray on August 17, 2025


Heading back to the Holy Land. Registrations are coming in Join us over Christmas break, Dec 28-Jan 8.  No crowds, no lines! The local Christians await us.   Providentially, I just received today this message from a priest how took a group of 25 to the Holy Land earlier this year. It is as I knew […]

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Pray for a Friend and Pilgrim Dying Today

by Steve Ray on August 1, 2025


UPDATE: Friday, August 1: Our friend Ron just died on Friday. His family confirmed that he was in the good graces of God, ant peace and ready to go. He was a good man and a good Catholic Christian. ORIGINAL POST: Pray for a friend Ron Beeckman who is breathing his last today in hospice. […]

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Join us for Mass in the Newly Renovated Notre Dame in Paris!

by Steve Ray on July 18, 2025


Notre-Dame Cathedral welcomes more than 6 million visitors since reopening July 14, 2025 Catholic News Agency  An interesting article about the excitement over the newly opened Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. We will be celebrating Mass here this October. Maybe you can join us? We still have some seats open. Also a day in Normandy […]

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What does the word PILGRIM mean?

by Steve Ray on July 12, 2025


What does the word “pilgrim” mean? Each November, we celebrate Thanksgiving to commemorate the Pilgrims who left England to establish a colony in the New World. We call them pilgrims because they left their homes and journeyed into the unknown. The word “pilgrim” means a wayfarer, a traveler, one who journeys especially to a foreign […]

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Saints & Shrines of France – including D-Day and Opening of Notre Dame Cathedral!

by Steve Ray on July 6, 2025


The first time we did this pilgrimage through France it was a huge success and a very blessed time. This trip will be even better! Join us November 30 – December 9, 2024. D-Day, also known as the Normandy Invasion This turning point in World War II occurred on June 6, 1944 — eighty years […]

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Danube 10: 20th Anniversary Celebration and Gala Dinner

by Steve Ray on June 27, 2025


It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since we started leading pilgrimages. With many locations in over 10,000 people it’s a very humbling for Janet and and I. We thank John Hale and Mark Slater of Corporate Travel Services for their unwavering loyalty and operational partnership. To celebrate we had a big Gala Dinner […]

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