About two weeks after what he calls the most surreal moment of his life, Kevin Workman remains in awe.

The Center for Mission, which supports the archdiocese’s missionary outreach, is helping to organize the monthly prayer pilgrimage at churches “where there is a larger presence of parishioners representative of one of the five regions of the World Mission rosary,” according to the event webpage.

My pastor, Father Peter Williams at St. Ambrose in Woodbury, shared in a homily recently a sentence from a book he was reading that stated there are no plotlines in life. Like breadcrumbs in the Grimms’ fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, we do not have a pre-ordained path we can follow and arrive at our destination, whatever that may be. We must live one day at a time. But where does that bring us if we have no sure plan for our lives?