A book we can all use …

… A Vademecum Against Modernity > Guido Mina di Sospiro. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The other day, receiving good news after a medical exam of great consequence, my wife and I felt the urge to go to a sanctuary to give thanks; in our case to the Holy Virgin. I found that in Philadelphia there is a Miraculous Medal Shrine, and there we went. We devoted the whole day to it. And that is an ancillary point: a pilgrimage need not necessarily be a heroic feat of endurance across deserts and over mountains. It can be whatever one can realistically accomplish. But, a hallowed place, one at which millions of people have prayed before, is a special place.

I have known this shrine since childhood, and visited there last year for the Fatima centenary.
I also just downloaded the book.