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)
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:
– Großer Gott wir loben Dich (Papst Benedikt XVI. in München 2006)
– Von guten Mächten still und treu umgeben (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich)
– Schönster Herr Jesu
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“
– Papst Benedikt XVI in Zagreb (2011) mit dem Lied: „Krist jednom stade na žalu“
– Zdravo Tijelo Isusovo
