CV NEWS FEED// A Catholic priest who is also a popular author, evangelist, and podcaster has published a book on pilgrimages as “a roadmap for holy pilgrimage destinations.”
According to a press release, Fr. Edward Looney, of the Diocese of Green Bay, published Places of Grace: My Visits to Shrines, Chapels, Graves, and Monasteries, and the Graces I Received in order “to equip visitors to holy places in their awareness of what God wants to do for them in that place and to enter into the moment of grace.”
Fr. Looney has traveled the globe visiting pilgrimage sites and has shared his journeys through social media, including his YouTube series, Fr. Edward Visits.
“These holy visits are now being shared in my latest book and I hope to inspire the faithful and curious alike to encounter God through pilgrimage to these holy places of grace,” he said.
Fr. Looney lamented the way some pilgrims treated their holy destinations, saying that while he was in Canterbury, “people would hurry by the spot of St. Thomas Becket’s martyrdom. They would take their selfie and keep moving. There was no pause to remember the fact that an archbishop died on that spot, and as a saint, now inspires and intercedes for us.”
His book encourages Catholics to receive the graces of their pilgrimages, and his prayer is “that everyone who reads it will be open to the specific grace God has for them.”
