Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a Dominican friar of the province of St Joseph.

I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the Timistic Institute and this is Pine to the Aquinas.

Pilgrimages are often an occasion in which to deepen our conversion,

as we either travel to a holy place or travel with a holy intent

and as we kind of put ourselves through the paces or spiritual exercises, God uses that as a way by watch to heal us and grow us to fix us more firmly in him, even as we ourselves are on the way.

In my own life, pilgrimages have played a big part in my

conversion, in my vocation, in my ongoing formation, and I'm super grateful for

those opportunities. So I thought that I would curate a little list

and give some recommendations as to

sweet pilgrimage places that you might visit.

So here we go. So I have talked on the podcast before about, you know, my family. We took a pilgrimage as a family when I was three years old to Mejigoria and then on the basis of that experience my mom and dad opened a little Catholic book shop in our town, New Town, Pennsylvania, called Salvier Regina Catholic Books and Gifts and

from that shop they then took pilgrimages mostly in Magigoria but to other

Marion shrines in Europe and so my family wasn't a big vacation family, we were more of a pilgrimage family.

And so we went off into Medigoria and that played a big part in my own, you know, ongoing conversion,

vocation and formation.

And I was part of the story of my experiencing a call to the

priesthood and religious life and besides. So when talking about Magigoria

right the church has said that you can go there you can go there as a parish or as a diocese so it's not a

determinative judgment as to this is definitely supernatural now so we speak of the

alleged apparitions at Medigoria, but you know you're free to go or not to go.

But that's just to say it's been a big part of my own formation.

I also think when people talk about pilgrimages, they'll often think of it as something really far away.

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