We're on Christmas break, so here's great big round up!

Thy Ship will be on Christmas break through January 6. A whole new year of fresh posts will resume then, and our Friday newsletter will resume January 10. Subscribe so you don't miss any of our brand-new content. You can also subscribe to have news issues of our newsletter delivered to your inbox.

While we're out, please enjoy lots of good stuff from our previous posts. Can't wait to see y'all back here in 2025 with a fresh harvest of ways to make any place a pilgrimage.

Gifts and useful things

• The most important rule for gift giving (plus seven no-fail tips)

• 5 rules for giving experience gifts

• Gift guide for women

• Gift guide for men

• Gift guide for young adults

• Gift guide for teens

• Gift guide for middles and littles

• Gift guide for family and friends

• Last minute gifts

• Zero-cost gifts

• 12 gifts you can give for almost any occasion

• Why a beautiful toilet brush matters (the case for pretty tools)

• French-inspired finds to add a little joie de vivre

• Let's geaux shopping: woven handbags

• Favorite things roundup (September)

• Favorite things roundup (August)

• Books that made me a better spouse

• 10 gifts that honor Our Lady

• Everything's roses roundup

• 9 saints books that aren't schmaltzy

• French blues

• Best books about St Thérèse of Lisieux

Food and drink

• Cranberry chutney: our favorite recipe

• Budget friendly party food for football games, hoco, and other gatherings

• The most Catholic breakfast

• How to make coffee on a moving bus

• 13 delicious food souvenirs to bring home from New Orleans

• Tomatoes and love

• It smells like God

  
  

Make any place a pilgrimage

• Don't skip Advent: how to celebrate waiting

• A Catholic guide to Christmas movies

• Saints quotes for Advent and Christmas

• Why you should visit cemeteries when you travel

• Saints quotes about gratitude

• Still-grimage and pilgrimage with St Zélie Martin

• A Catholic guide to Disney

• A Catholic travel guide to outer space

• 9 tips for touring churches and holy sites with young people

• 8 non-church vacation places you can contemplate God, plus what to ask

• Saints quotes for traveling

• Still-grimage and pilgrimage with St Maximilian Kolbe

• A sacred layer: Look for Mary

  
  

New Orleans

• 7 free and almost-free holiday things to do in New Orleans at Christmas

• How to enjoy Réveillon in New Orleans

• A New Orleans pilgrimage in the footsteps of St Frances Cabrini

• 10 things I love about New Orleans in October

• 3 free, no-tour-required cemeteries in New Orleans

• 25 things I always want to eat and drink in New Orleans

• A $35 budget itinerary day in New Orleans

• 13 delicious food souvenirs to bring home from New Orleans

• My favorite coffee shops on Magazine Street

• 3 pilgrimage places for Our Lady in New Orleans

• My New Orleans: the Elmer house

• How not to melt and die in New Orleans in summer

Travel

• 6 packing tips for Paris in fall and winter

• How to pack a week of outfits into one backpack

• Another week in a backpack

• What to do in Ireland

• Ireland packing list

• 11 top travel favorites from Amazon

• The best shoes for travel

• 3 secret Catholic sites in Paris

• Is one black top all you need for a trip?

• Dauphin Island guide

• El Paso guide

Interesting bits

• The story of St Catherine Labouré and the Miraculous Medal

• 12 easy, quick, last-minute costumes

• 6 Catholic connections to the NFL

• 7 wonderful Paris Olympics stories

• Saints quotes for sports and athletes

• The creative love of the Holy Spirit

• Joy is a sweaty walk

Saints

Check out our Saint of the Week series, book recommendations, feast day celebration ideas, and more here.

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