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[QUOTE="Rebekah Scott, post: 109634, member: 271"] I do not speak for the RC church (they might find that patently offensive!) but when I did a RC camino I set out with a clear purpose (repose of the soul of a dear friend who had died in an accident, without benefit of final rites) and to accompany said friend´s parents, who sought healing on the Way. We sought the blessing of our parish priest beforehand, asked the neighbors for their prayers of support as we walked. We started each day´s walk with an hour of silence. We each prayed the Rosary throughout the day, quietly. And when we came across a church, a cruciero, a wayside shrine, or even a cairn of stones, it was a sign to stop and recollect, to be present again in the moment, and recall why were were there and to offer a prayer for the specified purpose. In Galicia there are TONS of Christian spurs to spirituality, so I was constantly reminded and brought back to awareness by the very landscape around me. We didn´t eat meat on the journey. We went to Mass every evening. We didn´t party or get overly jolly with our fellow pilgs. Ours was a solemn business, and they respected that once word got round what we were doing. (Only one of them questioned our "authenticity," pointing out that Paco was driving a car with our bags in it. Paco offered to carry the man´s bag along in the car, as his own "pilgrimage service," the critic was the first to drop off his mochila the next day.) When we got to Santiago we made our confessions and visited the chapels and fulfilled all the requirements for the Holy Year indulgence. And when we went to the Pilgrim Office, I had my Compostela/plenary indulgence made out to my friend´s soul´s benefit. I gave the certificate to her parents. We and our pilgrim friends stood outside the pilgrim office and cried like little girls! I may or may not believe in the eternal benefits of indulgences and compostelas or pilgrimages. But those few days of intense Catholic practice were one of the most powerfully healing Christian disciplines I have ever undertaken. It was good for me, good for the parents, and maybe even helped a soul out of purgatory -- who can say? Maybe someday I will find out. [/QUOTE]
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