Our Pilgrimage

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April 2014 - One day a while ago I had an idea that if I was younger and starting over, one thing I would like to "do over" is to visit all the churches in our Diocese of Green Bay.  I have visited other churches while traveling (although not as many I as I would have liked looking back on things), and I have always enjoyed seeing other parishes and enjoyed Mass as a "stranger". Two memorable visits were to the Cathedral in Colorado Springs back in the 90's and a local Parish in Valley Forge, PA. in 2013.  Both are really good memories. I think perhaps this idea stemmed when I met Bishop Zubick early in his tenure here in Green bay and he said that in his first year here it was his goal to visit every parish in the diocese.  Not sure if he did it, but I would not doubt it.

So back to MY idea of visiting all the parishes of Green Bay. Realistically, there is no way I would do that alone and on my own, so I kinda secretly fantasized that one small thing I would do differently in life, if I had the chance, is I would take my lovely bride and do this over the course of our life. Perhaps a little silly, but it seemed like a nice idea.

In February and March of 2014 Kay and I both attended CEW retreats here at All Saints Parish in Denmark. It was a life changing experience for both of us. God gave us some REALLY incredible gifts as a result, including a renewed love in our marriage. Its awesome and if you are interested, either or both of us would gladly tell you about it!!!

So one thing we realized is that we love spending time together, so one day I mentioned this idea of visiting all the parishes, kinda jokingly, and it wasn't immediately shot down. So I checked it out and right (April of 2014) now we have 167 parishes in the Green Bay Diocese. Considering how many we have already visited, and throwing in some hits and misses, I realized that maybe we WEREN'T too old to get this done in our lifetimes and that by the time we retired (VERY optimistically at 65) we could get this done by visiting one parish a month. God willing of course!

I also read that "any" trip that has a religious basis can be called a pilgrimage...  So I decided to call this "Our Pilgrimage".

So in May of 2014 we started...  Each trip we will document a little about the trip and the parish and church we visit.  Hopefully we will keep a scrap book of sorts to pass on someday along with these webpages...  We'll see... Perhaps, a little selfishly, I'd like Kay and I to be remembered for something interesting and good (in a religious way) when we're gone.

Below the links to each trip I will have an updated list of the parishes in the Green Bay Diocese and which of them we've been to...

Ask us about it someday!  We'd love to share!

Kay and Curt Nelson

~Holy Trinity - New Denmark