Lutsen Fall Colors on Lake Superior

From the famous Lutsen ski resort. 

Lake Superior

Breakfast on the beach with a good read.

The Ojibway called it the "Kitchi-Gumi."  The French called it the "Grand Lac."  We call it Lake Superior.

The largest of the five Great Lakes.  Contains 10% of the world's fresh water supply.  The largest body of fresh water in the world by surface area.

One of my favorite childhood memories is cooking breakfast on the beach here.  Now continuing the tradition. 

On Episcopal Gloves

"Amazing how something as simple as custody of the hands can convey a good message."

-John Boyden

Rome Quotes

"Papa loquax, ergo non pax (the pope is talkative, therefore there is no peace.)"

-Jonathan

Jesuit Missionaries in Minnesota

Grand Marais, Minnesota. 

Rediscovering Reverence

http://www.veilsbylily.com/

Giving Your Summer Cottage a Latin Name

Croftville, Minnesota. 

Bumper Sticker Evangelization

It takes guts to have a sticker like this on your car.

During my university years I had a pro-life bumper sticker on my car - one night the back window was smashed in by angry vandals.

As the left gets more radical, we see they are getting more violent.  

Fr. Baraga Cross on Lake Superior in Minnesota

As a boy my parents brought me here.  As an adult they brought me here yet again.

Very powerful to pray here on the shores of Lake Superior.

The great arcana of divine mysteries cannot be known by reason, but only by Revelation.  There is need for such zealous apostles to make known the truths of Revelation - today.

Fr. Baraga, pray for us!

Glory of Catholic Slovenia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Baraga.

"Along the shores of Lake Superior, Indian tribes were visited by missionaries who this time were welcomed.  In August, 1835, Father Baraga, later bishop of Marquette, went to the Chippewa community at Fondulac on the St. Louis River, at the head of navigation on Lake Superior.  He instructed and baptized converts, and no doubt, as was his custom elsewhere, celebrated daily Mass for them.  His co-worker, Father Pierz, went in 1838 to Grand Portage on the North Shore of Lake Superior and ministered in a similar way to the aborigines resident at that important station of the fur trade."

-Thomas J. Shanahan (Ninth National Eucharistic Congress, pp. 10-11).  

Signs for Your Parish

Always helpful in a tourist town.

Always helpful when a church has a tall spire, too!

Grand Marais, Minnesota.