Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

When Lori Tozel’s husband, Doug, said he wanted to go to the Holy Land just the two of them – she agreed or at least until a higher voice interceded.

“Then unexpectedly, one day while spending time with the Lord in prayer in Adoration, I heard out of the blue, ‘You need to take more than two people to the Holy Land,’” Tozel said. “I quickly pushed that thought out of my head while wondering how the heck did it get there. Several weeks later, but this time I was in mass and as my mind began to wander, I heard the same twelve words, ‘You need to take more than twelve people to the Holy Land.’”

The group, including St. Charles Parish residents, who went on Lori Tozel’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

And she did.

When Tozel told her husband “a bigger man than him’” wanted them to take a group there, he replied, “It’s all on you, I am only along for the ride.”

Tozel felt comfortable bringing about 25 people on the trip, but the number quickly climbed closer to 38 and some of them came from St. Charles Parish like Don Montgomery and others as far as Nevada. They included a Cajun priest, Father Byron Miller, who had been transplanted in St. Louis, Mo.

“It was the perfect trip because God planned the entire Holy event,” Tozel said. “He chose the perfect priest, the prefect group, the perfect travel agency and guide for the journey that took our insights and emotions way beyond the sites of the Holy Land.”

 

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