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

Thy Ship will be on Mardi Gras break through March 10. Fresh posts for Lent, spring, travel, and making every place and day a pilgrimage will resume then. Our Friday newsletter will resume March 14. Subscribe so you don't miss any of our brand-new content. You can also subscribe to have new issues of our newsletter delivered directly 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 after Mardi Gras! Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Useful and wonderful things

• Purple, green, and gold round up

• Favorite things round up (February)

• 14 Catholic Valentine's gifts

• 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

• Satsuma cake

• Authentic New Orleans king cake recipe

• 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

• A pilgrimage to America's first and oldest Black Catholic parish

• 20 questions to make a museum into a pilgrimage

• Saints quotes for love letters

• Saints quotes for a fresh start

• 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

• My favorite romantic places in New Orleans

• 27 random local tips for New Orleans visitors

• My favorite New Orleans parade

• 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

• Boudreaux's guide to Mardi Gras

• What to bring to a Mardi Gras parade

• How to pack for cold weather trips

• 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

• Black faith matters

• Repeat-read books for cozy weather

• Our house tour

• 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. Recent saints include Angela Merici. Jacinta Marto, Josephine Bakhita, Frances de Sales, Scholastica, Marianne Cope, and Agnes.

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