Peace Love Pilgrimage is an instrument to know God

Peace Love Pilgrimage is a response to the Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel (2013). The words “go out into the streets, not be desk bound” created an undeniable sense of urgency to help others find Jesus.

My immediate response to help others move further on their faith journey was overwhelming. In one advertisement, on one day the maximum number of people registered to travel on a motor coach bus, 580 miles, overnight to celebrate Mass with Pope Francis. The Mass was not in a church rather on a freeway, millions of people gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the World Meeting of Families. 

As a journalist, it is a privilege to share authentic stories of ordinary men and women who found Jesus in extraordinary ways. The individual stories share in the joy of redemptive suffering and are a witness to the greatest gift of Jesus waiting in the tabernacle. 

I describe the relationship between holy and sacred in my graduate school publication titled Evangelization through Sacred Art and the Rite of dedication of an altar.  With local artists commissioned to create seven new liturgical sacred art pieces at Saint Louis de Montfort Catholic Church, in Fishers, Indiana. The new altar was consecrated by the Most Reverend Timothy L. Doherty, Bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana.

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in all things give thanks.” 
 1 Thes. 5:16