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    Scallop Shell

    Sonia, If you haven't already found a scallop shell in a restaurant or seafood shop, try http://www.seashellcity.com. I bought some scallop shells from them before departure and they were great to deal with. I think it's great that you're supplying a shell to a friend and future pilgrim as a...
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    Para Ivar

    Javier, those photos are great! Steve S
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    Something to chew on!

    I found the following meditation at http://www.explorefaith.org/signposts/ for May 13, and I thought it pertained beautifully to the Camino: For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. —Hebrews 13:14 It is an interesting phenomenon. What...
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    Camino Overpopularisation

    xm, Thanks for calling our attention to this article. There are some important points and reminders here for all of us. Steve S
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    Value of pilgrimages

    I will let this be my last post on the topic. For the record, Sil, I, too have read Nancy Frey. But again, to call oneself a pilgrim means to undertake a spiritual journey, whether one venerates the relics or not. Otherwise we do violence to language. To be sure, the word "peregrino"...
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    Value of pilgrimages

    Wow. I hesitate to go down this path (pun intended), but I feel compelled. Minkey, I couldn’t agree more that “If you walk away from the Camino thinking ‘gosh, that was tough’ then you're thinking the wrong things.” However, even to invoke the concept of a “self” involves certain...
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    Value of pilgrimages

    XM, I should have written "link," as I actually read the entire article a couple of days ago. I, too, am unclear on what Minkey means. To clarify my own post, I simply meant that the pilgrimage is meant to be religious in nature. While that is indeed speaking from my own perspective...
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    Value of pilgrimages

    XM, This is what it's all about. Thanks for posting the entire article. Steve S

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