Looking back on 2025, we had a very rich experience of the Year of the Jubilee of Hope. We visited pilgrimage sites in Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington D.C., New Mexico and Italy. The diversity of the Catholic Church was on clear display – the simplicity of the Shrine of Our Lady of Champion is so unlike the experience of walking through the Holy Doors at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The diversity of the lives of the Saints represented at these sites is also striking. As moving as it is to stand in St. Peter’s, experience the grandeur of that place, and pray at the tomb of St. John Paul the Great, it is also encouraging in a very different way to pray at the casket of Blessed Solanus Casey.
Every year, the Bishop Baraga Association sponsors a virtual snowshoe walk in January. The walk is from January 19th until January 30th. If you would like to learn more about this, here’s the link: Bishop Baraga Association Virtual Snowshoe Walk
