Wisconsin Wonder: Wayside chapels and everyday pilgrims

Faith Full Catholic Podcast

This episode is the third connected to The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion, WI. This is the first and only Church-approved Marian Apparition site in the United States. Faith Full is a Catholic podcast hosted by Tony Ganzer.

This episode talks about needing to take mini-pilgrimages in our everyday life, and not just wait for big trips. You can stop for a moment of prayer anywhere, anytime. This episode features again Fr. Edward Looney, Fr. John Broussard, Fr. Carlos Esparza, and Fr. Stephen Dominic Hayes.

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Standing on the shore of a mountain lake at sunrise, you may not think you’re necessarily on a pilgrimage, but then you’re drawn toward a prayerful moment. You gaze into the raspberry and amber skies, as the lapping waves try to sing you back to sleep. But you’re called to be present and aware of the awe.

Or maybe you hike toward an Alpine peak when you’re serenaded by birdsong; nature’s hallelujah. Again you’re very present in the moment; thankful and introspective, like a pilgrim. And then on the trail you literally see Christ on the cross. A traveler, a pilgrim, before you thought to install a wayside chapel—a small, wooden structure to draw you even further toward God.

These things are common in Europe, and in Wisconsin chapels created by European immigrants still pepper the countryside.

This brings us to the idea of wayside chapels, or roadside chapels. In Wisconsin, are literally down the road from the Champion apparition site.