Day Four began with the themes of the previous day: considering truth, how to find it, and how to carry our hearts along in the process. “As Dominicans, we’re asked to get to reality,” Sister Mary O’Driscoll, OP reminded us the day before....
Day three of the Fanjeaux retreat found us staring at a mountain, contemplating truth. In about 1204, a castle was built on the top of the Château de Montségur, which marks one of the last strongholds of the Cathars in Southern France. The castle became a center of...
Our pilgrimage started in Fanjeaux, Southern France. We stayed at a guesthouse, Le Belvedere, where I had a panoramic view of Fanjeaux from my room. As I looked out and to the left of my balcony, I actually felt I could see Dominic walking up that street with his...
It didn’t take very long for the focus of the Fanjeaux Pilgrimage to shift from Saint Dominic to Saint Thomas Aquinas. By the second day of the pilgrimage, the twenty-three of us found ourselves visiting Saint Thomas Aquinas’s tomb and discussing his life at length....
Saint Dominic is often called “the joyful friar.” That message became clear as twenty-three of us traversed through France over a two-week period, tracing the footsteps that Saint Dominic laid on the land over eight centuries ago. The group, about half sisters...
