Emily from United States

[Emily Sloan]

Hello,

My name is Emily. I am starting my Camino in two days from St. Jean.

I am from Chicago originally, lived in Denver and just left Raleigh, where I did a year of work through Jesuit Volunteer Corps. The Camino is a leap a faith for me as I am traveling solo and am looking for the space to contemplate after an intense experience through JVC.

Thank you for welcoming me and I hope the best for each journey.

Blessings,
Emily

 

[Wokabaut_Meri]

Buen Camino Emily.

The Camino will certainly afford you contemplative space. You will see from this forum that there quite a few pilgrims setting out so you will have company as well.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Hello,

My name is Emily. I am starting my Camino in two days from St. Jean.

I am from Chicago originally, lived in Denver and just left Raleigh, where I did a year of work through Jesuit Volunteer Corps. The Camino is a leap a faith for me as I am traveling solo and am looking for the space to contemplate after an intense experience through JVC.

Thank you for welcoming me and I hope the best for each journey.

Blessings,
Emily

Hi Emily , it's a nice time of the year to set off for a walk.
Wish you a wonderful time and a Buen Camino, Peter.

 

[AlwynWellington]

@Emily Sloan, hi.

As well as contemplation you may wish to keep a diary with two sections for each entry. One section for the temporal, the events and experiences of the day. One section along the lines of the Jesuit spiritual exercises or, more simply your spiritual experiences to date.

I wish you well.

Kia kaha (be brave/ be strong)

 

[Deacon Jason]

Emily,

I hope and pray that your pilgrimage will lead you deeper into contemplation and allow you to 'unpack' your volunteer experience.

Grace+Peace

-Jason

P.S. The the unknown joys and hardships ahead of you on the Camino make me think of the most profound and difficult instruction in St. Ignatius' spiritual exercises:

"The human person is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by doing so, to save his or her soul.
All other things on the face of the earth are created for human beings in order to help them pursue the end for which they are created. It follows from this that one must use other created things, in so far as they help towards one's end, and free oneself from them, in so far as they are obstacles to one's end. To do this, we need to make ourselves indifferent to all created things, provided the matter is subject to our free choice and there is no other prohibition.

Thus, as far as we are concerned, we should not want health more than illness, wealth more than poverty, fame more than disgrace, a long life more than a short one, and similarly for all the rest, but we should desire and choose only what helps us more towards the end for which we are created."

St. Ignatius of Loyala, First Principle and Foundation

 

[Alan Pearce]

Buen camino, Em.

Alan

Be brave. Life is joyous

 

[wayfarer]

Welcome Emily, have a safe and wonderful Camino.
Buen Camino.

 

[Introibo]

Buen Camino Emily

Pax et bonum

 

[Emily Sloan]

Thank you everyone for your kind words! I made it to st Jean and will be starting early tomorrow.

Many blessings,
Emily

 

[Emily Sloan]

Emily,

I hope and pray that your pilgrimage will lead you deeper into contemplation and allow you to 'unpack' your volunteer experience.

Grace+Peace

-Jason

P.S. The the unknown joys and hardships ahead of you on the Camino make me think of the most profound and difficult instruction in St. Ignatius' spiritual exercises:

"The human person is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by doing so, to save his or her soul.
All other things on the face of the earth are created for human beings in order to help them pursue the end for which they are created. It follows from this that one must use other created things, in so far as they help towards one's end, and free oneself from them, in so far as they are obstacles to one's end. To do this, we need to make ourselves indifferent to all created things, provided the matter is subject to our free choice and there is no other prohibition.

Thus, as far as we are concerned, we should not want health more than illness, wealth more than poverty, fame more than disgrace, a long life more than a short one, and similarly for all the rest, but we should desire and choose only what helps us more towards the end for which we are created."

St. Ignatius of Loyala, First Principle and Foundation

Thank you Jason,

This was really meaningful for me. I went to a Jesuit university and obviously did Jvc. I have a strong affinity and find much inspiration from st ignatius.