Some excerpts from my pilgrimages over the last years. Finally, inspirational music to listen at home and prayers like the rosary.
Paris 2022, Sainte Chapelle: View of the storage location of the Crown of Thorns
Florence Cathedral - Santa Maria del Fiore - from the terrace of the café of the Uffizi Museum (2021)
St. Martin de Tours (F), Basilica in the morning hours (2023)
Tours, France: Repository of St. Martin of Tours (2023)
Tomb of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Bari (Italy) (2023)
Pastor Bernhard Gugerel (retired) from the Mainhausen parish in Italy with a view (finger pointing 🙂 ) to the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari (Ita) (2023)
Pilgrimage in Greece: Mount Athos (2020)
...I was there too 😉
Turin Cathedral with a view of the covered shroud (Jesus) in Turin. (2022)
Aachen Cathedral with a view of the Shrine of Mary, the Radiant Madonna and the Shrine of Charlemagne (2023)
Altar with a view of the Prague Infant Jesus in the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Prague (2023)
Apostolic Nuncio Curia Archbishop & Doyen of the Diplomatic Choir in Germany Nikola Eterović during Holy Mass. Mass for the pilgrimage in Maria Sternbach (2023)
Vatican City with a view of Pope Francis (top right window with flag) for the Angelus prayer (approx. 2019)
Dzimi Sokcevic in Paris in November 2025 in front of Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral
Entrance area of the cathedral with devotional candles and the statue of the Virgin Mary inside Notre Dame de Paris
Catholic/Christian Prayers:
Our Father:
- Our Father sung by the monks from the Cistercian monastery in Vienna (AT)
- Our Father sung by Pope Leo XIV in Latin
The Bible
- The Bible in the standard translation (online) from 1980, University of Innsbruck (AT) [in German]
Rosary:
1. Rosary in Latin by Pope Benedict XVI spoken:
Painful Mysteries of the Rosary in Latin
2. Rosary spoken in Latin by St. Pope John Paul II:
Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary in Latin
Instructions for praying the rosary:
Rosary instructions
-> I always enjoy listening to the Latin rosary in the morning shift on the way to work (in the car). 😉
Salve Regina:
Pope Leo XIV sings the Salve Regina
Gregorian chants from the monastery:
- Chorale for spiritual meditation
– Chorale for Eucharistic Adoration
– Litany of the Saints
Sermons:
– God exists!; Archbishop Rainer Cardinal Woelki
- With the Lord I am stronger than fear; Pastor Dr. Richard Kocher
- ; The Bible as God's living words to us; Pastor Winfried Abel
Modern church music for the background:
- Touch the Sky (Hillsong)
- Wonder (Hillsong)
- When I lost my heart to you (Hillsong)
Taizé (ecumenical movement):
- Nada te Turbe
- Veni Sancte Spiritus
- Let all who are thirsty come
Church music from Germany:
- Great God we praise you (Pope Benedict XVI in Munich 2006)
- Quietly and faithfully surrounded by good powers (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich)
- Most beautiful Lord Jesus
Church music from Croatia:
- Croatian Pigrims in front of Pope Francis singing traditional croatian church songs.
with the songs: „Krist na zalu“, „Rajska Djevo Kraljice Hrvata“ & „Ima jedna duga cesta“
- Pope Benedict XVI in Zagreb (2011) with the song: „Krist jednom stade na žalu“
- Zdravo Tijelo Isusovo