Well-Traveled Pilgrims

More well-traveled Group Leaders choose to organize their trips Select International Tours than with any other pilgrimage company. Here are a few of their stories.

Gus Lloyd

For the past 20 years, Gus has been a popular speaker at conferences, retreats, and parish missions. He speaks on apologetics, evangelization, men’s issues, marriage issues, and being a Catholic in the world today. Along with his daily radio show, which can be heard weekday mornings on Sirius XM 129.

Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio

A tour with Dr. Marcellino is a unique mix of theology and grace. “In my tours, I want to go to places where I can help people encounter God in a life-changing way,” says Dr. Marcellino. There are moments of deep commentary (which are made available on CD after each trip) balanced with a pace relaxed enough to allow for prayer and introspection. Dr. Marcelino’s pilgrims can often be found praying for each other and even receiving healing while waiting in line to view the sites.

Christopher West

“The first thing I tell the pilgrims is that the pilgrimages have changed,” he continued. “Two-hundred years ago, pilgrims weren’t flying on planes or riding in air-conditioned buses. The sacrifices are different, but the suffering is still real.”

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers

“I really want to encourage people; people say, I’d love to go, but I can’t afford it.’ Pilgrimage, for a lot of people, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Start saving, put some money aside every month, if you get some tax-return use that and GO! It really is one of those things that will have a deep and lasting impact on your life. Don’t put any obstacles between you and having a deeper, more intimate personal relationship with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

Stephen J Binz

Stephen is an award-winning author, biblical scholar, and popular speaker. He began to love travel while backpacking through Europe in college, and he was hooked while living several years in Jerusalem and Rome as a graduate student at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Hebrew University. He has been leading study trips and pilgrimages for the past two decades, traveling to the Holy Land, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Poland, France, Spain, Portugal, and California.

Brooke Taylor

“If there’s a quickening in your spirit…if there is a call, then we have to give our ‘yes’ and go. It’s going to be a challenge, and you might not see how it’s possible, but when we commit to something and give ourselves to it, it is amazing to see what God can do. It’s not just one trip you take for ten days; it’s for a lifetime.”

Hector Molina

“A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land is an encounter with both salvation history and geography, which brings the gospels to life. I cannot begin to tell you how much I have learned over the last several years on these pilgrimages, which have deepened my knowledge of the scriptures and have made me a better preacher, teacher, and herald of the Gospel,”

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Fr. Leo Patalinghug

Fr. Leo E. Patalinghug IVDei is a priest member of the community of consecrated life, Voluntas Dei, the will of God. He’s the host for the international TV and Travel Show, “Savoring our Faith” on EWTN. Along with his evangelization ministry, he also hosts a radio show and podcast. He’s a best selling author, an internationally acclaimed speaker and presenter for audiences of diverse backgrounds, and is the founder and creator of the international food and faith movement, “Plating Grace: Elevating Culture and Family Life One Meal at a Time.”

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