In the humble lot at the edge of Notre Dame’s campus lie the quiet, gentle rows of those crosses.

Today’s Arabic hymn may sound foreign to our ears, but its lyrics are the familiar words of Psalm 51: “Have mercy on me, O God”

Our hymn today is an ancient Jewish hymn of mourning and repentance. As we listen, let us reflect on how to open our hearts to God this Lent.

In our Baptism, Christ calls us to our ultimate identity and vocation: to become part of Christ’s life in God.

What tears are you bringing to God today? In moments of desolation, do you believe that God’s promise to comfort you in your sorrow?

Our first day of our video pilgrimage through the Holy Land follows Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.

Journey back with us to Christ the King’s humble origins in Bethlehem.

Join our FaithND pilgrims in walking in Peter’s footsteps from Mt. Tabor to Holy Week.

This “Spy Wednesday,” join the FaithND pilgrims in praying with Christ, our betrayed Savior.

Follow the FaithND pilgrimage to the Upper Room where Christ instituted the first Eucharist.

Journey with the FaithND pilgrims down Christ’s Via Dolorosa to Calvary.

As we wait for Christ’s Resurrection, join us in pondering the mysteries of Salvation with Mary.

Christ is Risen! Visit the site of Jesus’ Resurrection.

John August Swanson’s “The Procession” celebrates the Church as a communion of pilgrim people in heaven and on earth.

Today’s art, a traditional Orthodox Icon of the Theophany, commemorates Christ’s Baptism in the Jordan River

As we contemplate the Christian’s journey through Lent, we reflect today upon the Lenten practice of almsgiving through Van Gogh’s stirring image of the the Good Samaritan.

Caravaggio’s painting of pilgrims reaching Mary, our heavenly mother, encourages us on our earthly pilgrimage to reach our heavenly home.

The vision of the glowing ocean and the seemingly infinite pin-points of light dotting the dark sky has become a sign of God’s promise to me.

There is something scary about water, and it’s not just modern man’s fear that it will ruin his iPhone XS-Max132GB.

I want the desert to answer my doubts. I want the landscape to share my loneliness. I want to take off my clothes and climb up to one of those ancient caves and become a hermit, to escape the to-be-washed dishes cluttering the sink and my spiritual horizon.

Imprinted on me in that brief conversation was the notion that when this man found himself all alone in life, he became a pilgrim. And as he hiked the Camino, he was anything but alone.

We are only touched
By the beams, brief
Before the light goes
Before it pilgrims away to the other place

She says: the candle flickers

But will not flicker out.

The light is always more than yesterday.

Or even worse, she might become aware
Of the wounded world, that all of us
One day pass on. That I, too, will be a name,

Breathed out among names, on a Tuesday afternoon.