The freshness and wonder, the way that what was there before still exists but is now shot through with newness. The city glitters. Why not? Lent is the season of baptismal preparation as much as penance.
Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J.
Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J., teaches sacramental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is the author of Baptism of Desire and Christian Salvation. (Catholic University of America Press, 2024)
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Why I had to climb Rome’s Holy Stairs (on my knees) to believe them
Before long I had tears in my eyes—and not from the uneven grooves worn into the wood by pilgrims’ knees. Something about the physical discomfort helped me to focus on the much greater pain Jesus had felt on those same stairs.
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What Lenten pilgrims can learn from the martyrs of Rome
The second of Rome’s station churches is dedicated to a soldier-saint, George of Lydda. Soldier-martyrs seem to have left a particular mark on the memory of Roman Christians.
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A Jesuit’s Lenten pilgrimage through the station churches of Rome
If all the church’s worship should be thought of as a journey, Lent involves achieving platinum frequent flyer status.
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Why travel if you aren’t going to get a little lost?
Lessons from a Jesuit road trip to Illinois.