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  1. J.Patrick

    Why do you want to walk the Camino?

    Two things: My accurate answer would be “all of the above.” It seems to me that “religious” is a subset of “spiritual.” It’s peculiar to see this as an either/or.
  2. J.Patrick

    I have already learned SO MUCH from this forum.

    A historical note: In the medieval world the pilgrimage started at home, at one’s front door, and didn’t finish till one had walked all the way back. So, why not, even while you are preparing and learning, consider yourself, in a spiritual sense, already a pilgrim in process. Expectation and...
  3. J.Patrick

    Special intentions

    Both caminos that I've walked included praying for the intentions of my parishioners...I had hundreds of requests for prayer, which I lifted up at every shrine, chapel or church along the way. I would stop, take off my pack and pray my way through 3 to 6 of them, depending on how long they were...
  4. J.Patrick

    A good place to leave for Norte

    I started just across the border in France in Hendaye, crossing the bridge of Santiago, named for its ancient link to the pilgrimage. I wouldn't miss those first weeks for anything! The food, the beauty, the coast, the cobbles, the Basques! But be ready for a lot of elevation gain and lost each day.
  5. J.Patrick

    CF surprises?

    After paring life down to the essentials on the Camino, and finding how deeply satisfied I was with so little, I was completely surprised by the gratitude I came home with for the joyous excess of my life. I've floated on that gratitude for 2 years now...reveling in the overwhelming excess of...
  6. J.Patrick

    Intro and question about mass...

    I loved my time in the cathedral. The sense of communion with all the other pilgrims was SO moving. I was there in late May, just a bit off season I guess, and there wasn't any touristy/as opposed to deeply spiritual activity, at least that I noticed. My plan this next early October, when I next...

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