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Long and Theresa Nguyen traveled to Rome in September during the Jubilee Year of Hope and visited many places including…

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Members from St. Vincent de Paul parish in Huntington Beach visited the historic Cologne Cathedral in Germany! The cathedral took…

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The picture was taken at Seitai Hoshikai Chapel, also known as Our Lady of Akita, in Akita, Japan. It is…

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Mark Kreyche visited Bemidji, Minnesota, where the headwaters of the Mississippi River begin at Lake Itasca. —Mark is a parishioner…

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Natalie Tung visited the Basílica del Voto Nacional, located in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador. This monumental 19th-century neo-Gothic…

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We decided to take a family trip to Europe in the summer of 2025 as a sendoff to our son,…

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David and Kathleen Rea, along with their son Nathan, attended Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul…

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MOMENTS IN OUR JOURNEY

This summer, our family made a pilgrimage to Italy for the Jubilee. We passed through all four of the Holy…

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The Tung family visited the Basilica of St. Nicholas in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a copy of OC Catholic. This…

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Donna Gambol is at the ancestral home of the Venerable Lucia de Jesus, where she lived until the age of…