American Pilgrimage Lent This book is much more

This book is much more than a manual on how to pray

saying:  "Up until now I have done my own will

or office to be reminded of the Mother of God and some of her various titles

Just as important

then of the Blessed Virgin

American Pilgrimage Lent This book is much moreHistories of the Catholic Church in the United States abound. Most suffer from an excess of either scholarly detachment or popular triumphalism. American Pilgrimage seeks instead to draw on the best of current scholarship to tell the story of the Church as it understands itself: the Body of Christ, divinely ordained yet marred by sin, charged with the mission of spreading the Gospel and building up the community of the faithful. In scope, American