You're invited to POLAND! 🇵🇱

You are cordially invited to attend the second Catholic Feminist pilgrimage.

Hey, want to spend Saint John Paul the Great’s feast day in his hometown, exploring his childhood home and praying at the church where he was baptized?

Thought you might.

A New Feminism Pilgrimage will take place October 15-25, 2023 in Poland.

Let me paint you a little picture.

The week before we left on the inaugural Catholic Feminist pilgrimage to France, I was so anxious that I told anyone who would listen, “I am NEVER leading a pilgrimage again.”

Fast forward to the day after I got home, when I’m chipperly informing my best friend that “I can’t WAIT to do that again.”

Because that’s what happens when we shut our computers, book a plane ticket, and go. When we engage with a tangible, in-person community instead of Zoom screens. When we allow our eyes to feast on the beauty of ancient churches, treat ourselves to sparkling glasses of wine, and connect with other faithful feminists.

When it came time to pray about a location for the second round of our pilgrimage, I knew where I wanted to go: Poland, home of so many amazing Catholic saints and an unshakeable faith. When we traveled to France, I was experiencing everything with new eyes right along with the pilgrims. But going to Poland makes me feel a bit like I’m showing you a piece of my own heart and story.

You can check out our incredible itinerary and sign up here.

Among the many places we’ll be wandering: the Tatra mountains that JP2 loved so much, the historic concentration camp where Edith Stein was put to death, St. Faustina’s convent & tomb, the Pauline Monastery at Jasna Gora (they call it the “Polish Lourdes”!) to see the image of Our Lady of Częstochowa, and more.

To preserve the intimacy of the experience, this trip has limited registration + seats are already filling. The trip is still quite a ways off, but that gives you plenty of time to line up that PTO, ask your parents to watch the kids for a few days, and save your pennies. Sign up here.

Praying for your discernment. Please feel free to ask any questions in the comments section. The Lord is so very good to us. And not just because part of this, my flipping dream job, means I get to lead women to beautiful places. But just because He Is.

“Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.”

St. Faustina

In Him Through Her,

Claire Swinarski