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Hey everybody,
Before we get started, a quick FYI.
Ven. Fulton Sheen will be beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis, Missouri. It will be a singular moment in American Catholic history. It will also be a lot of logistics: hotels booked up fast, the process for getting individual tickets has not yet been announced, and there are a lot of unknowns.
Ed and I are leading a pilgrimage for the occasion. We’ll go to the beatification, we’ll spend some time together, we’ll venerate Sheen’s tomb in Peoria, Illinois. And the best part is this: We (and our pilgrimage partners, actually) will handle all the logistics, the hotel reservations, the tickets, the bus trip. All you have to do is show up. Trust me, for an event like this, that makes a world of difference.
So come with us. You’ll be glad you did.
Ok, with that announcement done, let’s get started:
Hey everybody,
Today’s the Feast of St. John Francis Regis, and you’re reading the Tuesday Pillar Post.
St. John Francis Regis.Regis was a Jesuit missionary, who lived as a priest for only 10 years before he died in 1640 at the age of 44, one year older than me, as it happens.
His story is this: Regis was
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