Pilgrimage has always been key to my understanding of faith and life.
While at University I walked to Walsingham as part ‘Student Cross’ – a primarily Roman Catholic cross-carrying Easter pilgrimage. It was for me much more than a walking holiday. It was the space I needed to rediscover my faith. This June I am going on another pilgrimage, to Santiago de Compostella in Spain, not to rediscover my faith in the same way as I did on the road to Walsingham, but certainly to discover more.
So after Mass on Sunday 3rd June I will go to the airport and travel to Spain and then walk around 300 miles to Santiago to pay homage to St James. (Oh and the Botafumeiro, the world’s biggest thurible kept in the cathedral which needs 6 people to swing it!) I will leave behind my email and my iPhone and take one smallish rucksack and carry all I need for the journey – no more. My hope and my prayer is to discover more of God, to delight in Creation and make more space for the spontaneity of the Spirit.
Please pray for me, my prayers will be with you.
While at University I walked to Walsingham as part ‘Student Cross’ – a primarily Roman Catholic cross-carrying Easter pilgrimage. It was for me much more than a walking holiday. It was the space I needed to rediscover my faith. This June I am going on another pilgrimage, to Santiago de Compostella in Spain, not to rediscover my faith in the same way as I did on the road to Walsingham, but certainly to discover more.
So after Mass on Sunday 3rd June I will go to the airport and travel to Spain and then walk around 300 miles to Santiago to pay homage to St James. (Oh and the Botafumeiro, the world’s biggest thurible kept in the cathedral which needs 6 people to swing it!) I will leave behind my email and my iPhone and take one smallish rucksack and carry all I need for the journey – no more. My hope and my prayer is to discover more of God, to delight in Creation and make more space for the spontaneity of the Spirit.
Please pray for me, my prayers will be with you.
