Category: Part 3: The Pilgrimage of Life
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Excerpts from Catechism of the Catholic Church
About the text: As is the case in any pilgrimage, prayer and penance mark the life of a Christian. Just as it was not enough for the Israelites to pass through the Red Sea, but they needed a time of purification and penance in the desert, so do we need to do penance in addition…
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Pilgrimage: What the Modern Pilgrim Can Learn from Kristin Lavransdatter
About the author: Christina Debusschere is a wife, mother, and cradle Catholic who grew up on a farm in northeastern Alberta. She holds a B.A. in music and a B.Ed. from Concordia University of Edmonton. Between rosaries and sinks of dishes, Christina enjoys reading, making music, educating her children, rational dialogue with her husband, and…
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Inferno: Canto I
About the text: Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321) was the first writer extensively in an Italian dialect and is therefore considered the father of Italian literature and a precursor of the Italian Renaissance. Deeply indebted to his early contemporary Thomas Aquinas both philosophically and theologically, Dante’s Divine Comedy follows in the tradition of Vergil, who serves as his…
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My Convoluted Pilgrimage to the Catholic Church
About the author: Deborah Gyapong’s journalism career included 17 years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where she spent 12 years as a television producer in news and current affairs. For 15 years, she covered national affairs and the Catholic Church for a network of Catholic newspapers across Canada. She retired in 2019. Her novel The Defilers won the…
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Paul Tells of His Conversion: Acts 22:1-21
About the text: St. Paul is well-known for his “Damascus moment,” the sudden revelation that he received from Christ that changed the trajectory of his life. Fittingly, his conversion took place on a journey and was accompanied by a movement from blindness to new life in Christ through baptism. Christ’s identification with the persecuted Church…