On the road.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: "Pilgrimage pilgrimage Journey to a shrine or other sacred place undertaken to gain divine aid, as an act of thanksgiving or penance, or to demonstrate devotion. Medieval Christian pilgrims stayed at hospices set up specifically for pilgrims, and on their return trip they wore on their is really an intensification in·ten·si·fy v. in·ten·si·fied, in·ten·si·fy·ing, in·ten·si·fies v.tr. 1. To make intense or more intense: of life itself. We choose to go on pilgrimage as a way of embracing the journey of every soul's journey into God. Pilgrimage, then, is an image of what the journey of life is about. That, I believe, is the reason it endures--not because of relics relics, part of the body of a saint or a thing closely connected with the saint in life. In traditional Christian belief they have had great importance, and miracles have often been associated with them. and shrines, but because we sense intuitively that this holy journey is a rehearsal for death and resurrection resurrection (rĕz'ərĕk`shən) [Lat.,=rising again], arising again from death to life. The emergence of Jesus from the tomb to live on earth again for 40 days as told in the Gospels has been from the beginning the central fact of . We go on pilgrimage to see our life in miniature, to walk physically and geographically the journey of the soul to God" (Murray Bodo, O.F.M., in The Place We Call Home: Spiritual Pilgrimage as a Path to God, Paraclete Press) |
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