September 2023 – Defenders of the Catholic Faith

Nine Truths about Purgatory: What Catholics Need to Know about Heaven’s Ante-room

Post author:Steve Ray
Post published:September 30, 2023
Post category:Apologetics Theology

Nine Truths about Purgatory: What Catholics need to know about the ‘anteroom of heaven’ By Emily Stimpson - OSV Newsweekly, 9/29/2013 (Steve Ray's article on Purgatory HERE) Some fear it. Others…

Boat Ride, Capernaum, Fish, Visitation to Jerusalem

Post author:Steve Ray
Post published:September 29, 2023
Post category:Pilgrimage

The big transition today from Galilee south to Jerusalem. Three nights in Galilee, and is five nights at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Jerusalem. Both are lovely and hospitable hotels.…

Upper Galilee, Golan Heights, Caesarea Philippi, Tabgha, Primacy…

Post author:Steve Ray
Post published:September 28, 2023
Post category:Pilgrimage

Everyone got a nice full night of sleep last night. Then we took off for Mass at the Mount of Beatitudes before driving north for an hour to Caesarea Philippi,…