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Pilgrimage Updates! Exciting Developments – possibly even the Holy Land

1.  Danube River Cruise has only three cabins left! This is our 20th Anniversary extravaganza with our own ship.

2. The amazing and much anticipated “Poland and Her Modern Day Saints” is filling up. We have Divine Mercy Sunday Mass at the Divine Mercy Chapel with the Sisters of Maria Faustina!

3. We are opening up our “Saints & Shrines of France” pilgrimage in Oct 2025. We will emphasize the amazing Catholic heritage. Also D-Day and Omaha Beach. We will also have Mass in the newly restored Notre Dame Cathedral.

4. For the Jubilee Year 2025 our popular “Saints & Shrines of Italy” is filling fast. Only a few seats are left. Starting in Milan in the north, we wind our way through Florence, Assisi, Siena, Loreto, Manoppello, Lanciano, Padre Pio and San Giovanni Rotondo, Rome and much more. Teresa Tomeo joins us in Florence and Assisi.

5. Join us on a Marian trip on one of our most popular pilgrimages is to Lourdes and Fatima, along with Santiago de Compostela, Loyola and more.

6. Also anticipating THE HOLY LAND in March 20-28, 2025 (brochure soon if/as things open up). With Trump elected president things are already changing fast. In talking with our “boots on the ground” in the Holy Land it seems a pilgrimage in March is possible, maybe even likely.

A number of people have contact us ready to go.  We are watching carefully. We will never take people into harm’s way, but we are hopeful this could happen. If you would be interested in being the first ones back to the Land of Our Lord and Lady, contact me at sray@me.com. No lines! No crowds!

Questions and Discussions on Catholic Answers Live – Getting along with Family & Friends during the Holidays

On Monday evening I got a call from Catholic Answers Live, “We lost our guest for the 7 PM slot — can you fill in at the last minute?”

“Sure, I’d love to.”  Our topic was “Loving Witness to Non-Catholic Family & Friends” or “Steve Ray’s 7 Rules for Dealing with Non-Catholic Family and Friends.”

We went through my Seven Rules and answered questions along the way. One guy called in to fight by asking a question totally unrelated to our topic. He asked, “Do Catholics think they get saved by faith or by works?” I had a good time answering him 😉

Questions Covered:

  • 20:45 – My husband is a revert to the Catholic faith. His family has not reverted, they’re non-denominational. How can I as the in-law discuss with them why we need to have time to go to Mass? 
  • 36:14 – How do works play into our salvation? 
  • 47:00 – My high-school-aged son is “Catholic” but he says there’s no God. 
  • 53:20 – I have two sisters and a brother-in-law who have left the Church because of their spouses. What are some strategies to get our siblings to at least think about investigating that as a reason? 

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Pictures then and now (the family picture has 3 members missing, hard to get everyone together these days!)

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On Monday I got a call from Catholic Answers Live, "We lost our guest — can you fill in at the last minute?"

"Sure, I'd love to."  Our topic was "Steve Ray's 7 Rules for Dealing with Non-Catholic Family and Friends."

One guy called in to fight by asking a question totally…

This evening I will be on Catholic Answers Live at 7 PM Eastern. Our topic will be “7 Rules for Dealing with Non-Catholic Family and Friends”.

The show is aimed to help folks better relate to their family and friends over the holidays, whether it’s religion or politics.

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