Tomorrow we start the 50-mile Mother Cabrini pilgrimage! There is much to do today for all involved. Many people travel to Colorado from other places to participate. Those who can walk are getting ready to do so; others are preparing the food and other amenities to make the pilgrimage possible. The website is here: Mother Cabrini Pilgrimage.

This picture shows the final climb (at the end of the journey) to the top of Mother Cabrini's mountain last year:

The book, "Travels of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini" that I have been culling quotes from, shows beautifully how she found material for meditation in the beauties of God's creation. As she traveled from hemisphere to hemisphere, crisscrossing oceans, she offered all the little inconveniences (and the big ones) to Almighty God, and always kept her thoughts in the Palm of His Hand.

We hope and pray that all the Colorado pilgrims (including ourselves) can bring down many blessings on themselves and those whom they offer their sacrifices for, by keeping the true spirit of the pilgrimage.

When the sea was calm and the sun was shining down on it, Mother Cabrini wrote:

"We seem to see the portals of Heaven which do not close at the end of the day, because there daytime never ends, for the day up there is eternal and the light which emanates from the Divine Face never fails. There, in that abode, exists no night, no ignorance, no blindness, for everything is seen in God; there, no sorrows exist, no tears, no adversity, no sighs. No, in Heaven there are no clouds to obscure the Divine Sun, the Eternal Sun of Justice."

I love the part about the unfailing light which emanates from the Divine Face! What a poet she was. It reminds me of this picture that I took of the sunrise over Galway Bay, in Ireland, in 2004.

We may see some pretty spectacular skies tomorrow, as the meteorologists predict a heavy thunderstorm!