“Welcome home to Jerusalem” is the phrase I did not get tired of hearing, nor did our guide get tired of saying, on our eight-day …
Stepping onto the Camino is like stepping into a mighty river bent for the ocean. Once on this path, one is carried along by a …
Whether from the confines of COVID-19, the ashes of grief or depression, or simply the occasional aridity of ordinariness, pilgrimage beckons. The open road calls. …
Some years ago, a dear friend introduced me to the New Year tradition of choosing words to live by for the year to come. In …
Most of us have been aware of a climate emergency for many years now and see that the urgency has only increased, to the point …
Lucy: In the summer of 2019, I had a three-month sabbatical from my ministry as incumbent at St Aidan, Toronto, and my husband David Howells, …
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out …
The normal point of departure for an article about pilgrimage would be the beginning. But it’s 2020, so let’s shake things up and start at …
It haunts me still. When I finished walking the 800 km Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in early June 2017, I was convinced I would never …
Wikipedia defines “pilgrimage” as “a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of …
It took 1,136,875 steps for me to walk the 800 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago through northern Spain last spring. And it meant climbing …
In the cold and dark of a Canadian winter, the thought of a four-day hike from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee, stopping along the …
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Why I went on a pilgrimage
I am not any great expert on pilgrimage. I don’t have any authoritative advice to give others on how to find the “best” pilgrimage. What …