We're on summer break, so here's great big round up!

Thy Ship will be on summer break through August 4. We'll resume then with fresh posts for adding joie de vivre to your routines, practical tips, packing lists, saint stories, recommendations, gift-giving, New Orleans, travel, and—most importantly—making every place and day a pilgrimage. Our Friday newsletter will resume August 1. Subscribe here so you don't miss any of our brand-new content. Subscribers also get access to the newsletter archive. You can also subscribe to have new issues of our Friday newsletter delivered directly to your inbox.

While we're out, please enjoy lots of good stuff from our previous posts. Can't wait to see y'all back here soon!

Useful and wonderful things

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

• Favorite things round up (May)

• 34 great gifts for moms, grads, and weddings

• Purple, green, and gold round up

• Favorite things round up (February)

• 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

• Last minute gifts

• Zero-cost gifts

• 12 gifts you can give for almost any occasion

• Why a beautiful toilet brush matters (the case for pretty tools)

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

• Let's geaux shopping: woven handbags

• Favorite things roundup (September)

• Favorite things roundup (August)

• Books that made me a better spouse

• 10 gifts that honor Our Lady

• Everything's roses roundup

• 9 saints books that aren't schmaltzy

• French blues

• Best books about St Thérèse of Lisieux

Food and drink

• 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

• 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

  
  

Make any place a pilgrimage

• 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

• 9 tips for touring churches and holy sites with young people

• 8 non-church vacation places you can contemplate God, plus what to ask

• Saints quotes for traveling

• Still-grimage and pilgrimage with St Maximilian Kolbe

• A sacred layer: Look for Mary

  
  

New Orleans

• 10 things I love about New Orleans in spring

• My favorite romantic places in New Orleans

• 27 random local tips for New Orleans visitors

• My favorite New Orleans parade

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

• 10 things I love about New Orleans in October

• 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 pack a week of colorful outfits into one backpack

• 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

• 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

• 3 secret Catholic sites in Paris

• 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

• 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

Saints

Check out our Saint of the Week series, book recommendations, feast day celebration ideas, and more here. Recent saints include the First Martyrs of Rome, Philip Neri, Kateri Tekakwitha, John Fisher, Maria Goretti, Louis and Zélie Martin, Anthony of Padua, and Joan of Arc.

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