Sunday brought us to St. Peter’s Basilica. The magnificence of St. Peter’s is a powerful, palpable thing. Here, 25 years previous, on Trinity Sunday, our pastor was ordained. When Father Tom joined us to celebrate Mass, he was radiant. We could feel his joy and were witness to his serenity. Mass was said in the Chapel of St. Sebastian at the tomb of St. John Paul II, who had ordained Father Tom. We all felt especially blessed. A year of hoping, planning, anticipating had come to fruition.

Through Saint Faustina, Jesus revealed special ways to live out the response to His mercy–one of which is the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, as both a novena and a prayer for the three o’clock hour–the hour of His death. Join Magnificat Travel in praying this novena beginning on Good Friday.

Katherine Comeaux, an 11th grade student at Hanson Memorial High School of Franklin, La., traveled with Magnificat Travel to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life on Jan. 25, 2013. Stepping off the airplane into the cold Baltimore weather, I knew this trip would be a great one. The day of the Pro Life March […]