We're on pilgrimage, so here's a great big roundup

Thy Ship will be leading pilgrimages in Rome and Assisi for the next few weeks. From Instagram, I'll be sharing daily photos and spiritual insights as we make our way across holy and historic sites like St Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, the homes of St Francis and St Clare, the Catacombs, an early Christian house church, a skeleton-filled crypt, and the tombs of countless saints. We'll even be biking the Appian Way, climbing the Aqueducts, and splashing around some Italian beaches, so come follow along!

We'll resume June 8 with fresh posts on adding joie de vivre to your daily routines, oodles of practical tips, packing lists, itineraries, travel guides and recommendations, all things New Orleans and France, and—most importantly—going differently and making every place a pilgrimage. While we're out, please enjoy lots of good stuff from our archives.

If you'd like to book your own travel or pilgrimage with us, let's talk. If you haven't joined my free weekly newsletter, A Heroic Moment, I'd love to have you. A Heroic Moment arrives free to your inbox with a weekly saint story and personal reflection essay. You can subscribe and access the archive here.

Ciao!

Useful and wonderful things

• Perfect sandals I've worn to France, Italy, Mexico, and everywhere else

• 34 great gifts for moms, grads, and weddings

• Let's geaux shopping: woven handbags

• Books that changed how I love my husband

• 10 gifts that honor Our Lady

• Five favorites

• Purple, green, and gold round up

• 14 Catholic Valentine's gifts

• The most important rule for gift giving (plus seven no-fail tips)

• 5 rules for giving experience gifts

• Gift guide for women

• Gift guide for men

• Gift guide for young adults

• Gift guide for teens

• Gift guide for middles and littles

• Gift guide for family and friends

• 12 gifts you can give for almost any occasion

• Last minute gifts

• Zero-cost gifts

• Stylish school supplies for grown-ups

• Movie review:Triumph of the Heart (Maxmilian Kolbe story)

• Why a beautiful toilet brush matters: 19 useful and beautiful tools

• French-inspired finds to add a little joie de vivre

• Everything's roses roundup

• 9 saints books that aren't schmaltzy

• French blues

• Best books about St Thérèse of Lisieux

Food and drink

• All about beignets

• Easy jambalaya

• The best snowballs in New Orleans

• Frozen Creole lemonade

• An easy cake that will make you famous

• Satsuma cake

• Bouillabaisse

• Carrot soup a la Normande

• Braised French lentils

• Gaudete popcorn

• Authentic New Orleans king cake recipe

• Cranberry chutney: our favorite recipe

• Budget friendly party food for football games, hoco, and other gatherings

• The most Catholic breakfast

• How to make coffee on a moving bus

• 13 delicious food souvenirs to bring home from New Orleans

• Tomatoes and love

• It smells like God

  
  

Go differently • Make any place a pilgrimage

• An interactive quiz: what kind of pilgrim are you?

• 6 Marian pilgrimage you can make in the United States

• 8 unexpected places to find God on vacation

• 8 spiritual preparations for travel

• 10 apps to make any place a pilgrimage

• A pilgrimage guide to the National Basilica in Washington, D.C.

• A pilgrimage to the movies

• A pilgrimage to St Joseph Abbey

• A one-day pilgrimage to Lisieux

• 5 secret Catholic pilgrimage sites in Paris

• What I'm packing for pilgrimage to Poland

• How to turn your beach trip into a pilgrimage

• Saints quotes for the beach

• How to make a Jubilee pilgrimage wherever you are

• An Irish pilgrimage itinerary in New Orleans

• A New Orleans pilgrimage: Nine Churches Walk

• How to pray the rosary without falling asleep

• Our family pilgrimage to Rome

• A pilgrimage to America's first and oldest Black Catholic parish

• 20 questions to make a museum into a pilgrimage

• What I'm packing for pilgrimage to France

• Saints quotes for the Sacred Heart

• Saints quotes for fathers

• Saints quotes for mothers

• Saints quotes for love letters

• Saints quotes for a fresh start

• Why you should visit cemeteries when you travel

• Saints quotes about gratitude

• Still-grimage and pilgrimage with St Zélie Martin

• A Catholic guide to Disney

• A Catholic travel guide to outer space

• Saints quotes for traveling

• How to make still-grimage and pilgrimage with St Maximilian Kolbe

• A sacred layer: Look for Mary

  
  

New Orleans

• 4 saints you can follow to New Orleans

• 21 things to do in the French Quarter that aren't drinking

• Can't get to Paris? Come to New Orleans instead

• Four great day trips from New Orleans

• A one day pilgrimage to St Louis Cathedral

• How to enjoy Coolinary in New Orleans (plus where not to go)

• What to do in New Orleans in spring

• My favorite romantic places in New Orleans

• 27 random local tips for New Orleans visitors

• New Orleans City Park guide

• My favorite New Orleans parade

• A New Orleans pilgrimage in the footsteps of St Frances Cabrini

• 3 free, no-tour-required cemeteries in New Orleans

• 25 things I always want to eat and drink in New Orleans

• A $35 budget itinerary day in New Orleans

• 13 delicious food souvenirs to bring home from New Orleans

• My favorite coffee shops on Magazine Street

• 3 pilgrimage places for Our Lady in New Orleans

• My New Orleans: the Elmer house

• How not to melt and die in New Orleans in summer

Travel

• How to plan a trip to Europe: 12 practical steps

• How to choose an Airbnb or a hotel in Europe

• What to do your first day in Paris

• Skip the Champs-Elysees: why you should always thrift when you travel

• What to pack for Lourdes

• 9 ways to make a layover or travel delay more meaningful

• Visit Rome's skeleton-filled Capuchin bone chapel

• How to pack a week of colorful outfits into one backpack

• How to get from Paris to Lisieux

• What to do in Dauphin Island

• How to make pilgrimage through France

• How to take a day trip from Paris to Orléans

• How to take a day trip from Rome to Assisi

• What to pack for Rome

• A black and white beach break

• Spring week in a backpack

• What to buy in Poland

• How to pack a week of outfits into one backpack

• Another week in a backpack

• What to do in Ireland

• Ireland packing list

• My favorite travel essentials

• The best shoes for travel

• Is one black top all you need for a trip?

• Dauphin Island guide

• El Paso guide

• Boudreaux's guide to Mardi Gras

• What to bring to a Mardi Gras parade

• How to pack for cold weather trips

• 6 packing tips for Paris in fall and winter

Interesting bits

• The surprising connection between Our Lady of Guadalupe and the New York public library

• The Paris church where Eucharistic adoration has never stopped

• 7 ways to celebrate the feast of St Jeanne d'Arc

• Our budget kitchen makeover

• Our budget dining room makeover

• 5 things that surprised me on my wedding day

• How to gift a sentimental tour

• Black faith matters

• Repeat-read books for cozy weather

• Our house tour

• The story of St Catherine Labouré and the Miraculous Medal

• 12 easy, quick, last-minute costumes

• 6 Catholic connections to the NFL

• 7 wonderful Paris Olympics stories

• Saints quotes for sports and athletes

• The creative love of the Holy Spirit

• Joy is a sweaty walk

• My favorite Stations of the Cross

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