Thy Ship can help you go deep, not just far.
Thy Ship is a ministry that helps individuals, families, and groups plan travel rooted in beauty and faith, both locally and abroad. We combine the precision of a professional travel concierge with the heart of a Catholic apostolate to design experiences of authentic encounter.
Whether you’re planning a honeymoon, family vacation, solo retreat, girls’ getaway, or group pilgrimage, we design and manage well-crafted travel with expert care.
But our true mission is to help you go differently.
We believe travel is not an escape, but an awakening—an invitation to rediscover your sacramental nature and encounter the One who loves you most. When body and soul are authentically integrated, travel becomes transformative.
Unlike travel services driven by commissioned partnerships and promos, we prioritize the personal over prepackaged.
Every experience is thoughtfully tailored to your unique vision, season of life, and the personal graces you’re seeking.
How we can help you
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Stillgrimages: our signature short-form, local experiences—like "stay-cation," but make it holy.
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Full-service pilgrimages: comprehensive, end-to-end planning for schools, parishes, families, and groups, including preparation and formation.
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Personal travel planning: intentionally crafted travel plans to help you make the most of your chosen destination. We handle "what/where/when" to help you dive deep into "why."
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Sanctified itinerary briefs: more meaningful honeymoons, anniversaries, and family getaways. We help you find the sacred anywhere, turning a standard vacation into a rich encounter.
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Speaking, retreats, and events: we present with warmth, clarity, and authenticity on a variety of ministry topics
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Formation and resources: custom travel journals and preparation guides designed to help you harvest the graces (they also become deeply special souvenirs).
How it works
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Share your vision with us, whether you're locked into a destination or you’re just dreaming of a vibe.
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Connect: We'll schedule a call to get to know you. Expect a fun conversation where we dive deep into your vision and needs. We don’t just want to know what kind of hotels you like; we want to understand what you’re really seeking.
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Select your service and level of support. Click here for a full menu of our services and rates.
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We curate your personal plan and finalize the details. You’ll receive a fully custom brief, then we'll collaborate to finalize every detail until it’s just right.
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We book and manage all the logistics. You enjoy freedom to be present and go deep.
Because we provide a high level of personal attention for every plan, we accept a limited number of projects each season.
Stillgrimages
Stillgrimages are our signature short-form pilgrimages—like a staycation, but make it holy! We’ll take you to sacred places you’ve driven past a hundred times but never entered, and to others you didn’t know were there. Excellent for families, parishes, schools, staff, teams, or small groups seeking high-impact retreats, field trips, formation, or days of reflection.
Custom, fully guided one-day group stillgrimage includes:
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Personal consultation: An in-depth session to understand your vision, needs, and scope
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Custom itinerary: A thoughtfully designed plan with logistics, pacing, and experiences tailored for your audience and focus
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Spiritual formation: Dynamic talks, presentations, and guided reflection throughout the day
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Seamless logistics: All bookings and reservations, plus dining and transportation recommendations
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Custom Apple or Google Map for easy navigation
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Personalized pilgrimage playlist (Apple Music or Spotify)
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Expert guidance for prayer, preparation, and pilgrim formation
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From $600
Personal travel planning
We do all the research and logistics to craft thoughtful itineraries that help you make the most of your chosen destination. Excellent for honeymoons, anniversaries, family vacations, girls’ trips, bachelorettes, or getaways that you want to plan with deeper intention and impact.
Fully custom, three-day itinerary planning includes:
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Personal consultation: An in-depth session to understand your vision, needs, and intentions
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Custom itinerary: A thoughtfully designed, three-day plan for your destination that details all logistics, pacing, and experiences
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Spiritual formation: Personalized recommendations that integrate sacred sites, local sacramental schedules, and guidance for prayer, preparation, and reflection
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Expert guidance: Recommendations for dining, transportation, and packing
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Custom Apple or Google Map for easy navigation
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Text and call support
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Your custom plan is a ready-to-reserve guide with all relevant links—just click to book and start packing!
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From $300
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We also offer full-service bookings and reservations from $200.
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Additional itinerary days: $50
Full-service pilgrimage planning
Do you dream of sacred travel and walking in the footsteps of the saints? Do you want something personal and tailored, not an overpriced, one-size-fits-all group package? In a frenzy of trendy, hyper-marketed prepackaged pilgrimages, let’s work together to create an unforgettable pilgrimage planned just for your school, parish, group, or family.
Pilgrimages are custom-quoted based on scope and always include:
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End-to-end pilgrimage planning and logistics fully customized for your personal focus, needs, budget, and demographics
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Formation support before, during, and after travel
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Custom schedules, prayer resources, and preparation guides
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Custom pilgrim journals and formation materials
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Ongoing collaboration with group leaders
Because of the depth of care and coordination, pilgrimage projects are limited each season.
Make any place a pilgrimage.
Share your existing trip itinerary and we'll show you how to make any place a pilgrimage from our deep expertise, meticulous destination research, and great connections. Excellent for solo travelers, couples, families, or groups of friends who want to turn travel into transformation.
Fully custom sanctified itinerary for one destination includes:
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Suggested churches and notable pilgrimage sites
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Saints and blesseds associated with the locale
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Local sacramental schedules
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Journal prompts
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Daily Mass readings and feasts for the dates of your trip
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Additional stories, biographies, and other resources
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Your brief is delivered in a beautiful, clickable digital format (digital product; printing also available).
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$100 per destination
Custom formation events, materials, and resources
Pilgrim formation
The most impactful pilgrimages don’t begin at the airport. A day of formation or a few shorter sessions will prepare your group to enter and receive the full grace and fruit of your pilgrimage. Lead your group in setting personal pilgrimage priorities while connecting them with the ancient Catholic practice of pilgrimage.
Formative field trips
Engage your students in experiential learning and connect them with the rich treasures of the Faith in your own community.
High-impact events for your staff, faculty or team
What if your next development event was more impactful, beautiful, and authentically community-building? Get away from the familiar with a mini-pilgrimage that connects your group with each other and the One who loves them most.
Custom travel journals
Do you want your next trip to be even more unforgettable and impactful? Do you want to grow spiritually at the same time you're soaking in the beauty and adventure of another place? Wherever your itinerary brings you, a custom travel journal tailored for your destination will take you deeper into the gift. We include guidance for local sites of sacred interest, places connected saints and faith history, daily Mass readings, and personal journal prompts to help you fully enter the experience, body and soul.
Study and discussion guides
How does Moana illustrate the notion of personal vocation? What can we learn about God's love from popular love songs? Whether you're a classroom teacher, youth minister, catechist, campus ministry director, adult formation leader, young adult outreach coordinator, study group leader, homeschooling parent, or a family trying to raise children to be in the world but not of it—we can create an impactful discussion or study guide for any resource, book, or movie you're using. No project is too big or too small. Culture is often portrayed as a wasteland. We see a crop of entry points for deep spiritual insight. Let's go harvest the good.
Speaking and retreats
What do a zoom sorority retreat, a casual family praise and worship event, a regional conference, a weekend adult's retreat, a training webinar, a campus ministry night, a mother-daughter workshop, a professional development session, a dad's club meeting, and a pilgrimage have in common? They're all opportunities to help people encounter God.
We love to tell stories and share the Good News. We have spoken for groups large and intimate, on platforms both live and streaming, for audiences both faith-based and secular, ranging in age from children and high school to college and professional groups. We strive to speak with warmth, clarity, authenticity, and humor. Connecting audiences with our common experiences and the world around us can open souls to mind-blowing, heart-piercing truths about God. We'd love to serve with you.
Kind words about our services
I traveled with my three best friends. I did not think our bond as besties could get any stronger, but making our trip into something deeper certainly has. The memories will last a lifetime.
C.
I LOVE that our trips was a pilgrimage, not just shopping excursions and touristy places. Yes, those things are important to experience, but to experience where actual saints walked and slept and worshipped brings one’s understanding about our faith to an even higher level.
M.D.
I loved our pilgrimage, but also the all the preparation and formation! I looked forward to our meetings and all the personalized newsletters to get us excited and help us really understand where we were going.
S.
The custom pilgrimage companion is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing your gifts. I feel so thankful and blessed that we get to share this experience.
K.
I was beyond grateful to have Aimee and Colin lead our pilgrimage. They remained calm and patient with us through the entirety, guiding us and opening my eyes to how special traveling can be. I am so eager for another pilgrimage under their leadership.
R.
It's truly hard to put into words the impact this trip had. Seeing the riches of the faith and the saints solidified both in a real way. Thank you, Aimee and Colin, for your yes.