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The author thinks he learned from the Camino, but did he?
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methodist.pilgrim.98 said:Yes, I found it useful.
What the author is struggling with is how do you return to "normality" when your soul is still on the Camino?
Perhaps we cannot bring the Camino to a close because even when the physical journey is done, the spiritual continues.
I have been working on this issue for 13 years now and am still left with more questions than answers.
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methodist.pilgrim.98 said:Yes, I found it useful.
As a minister of a Protestant Church I had to examine myself and ask, why do you want the plenary indulgence? I went to confession and started by telling the priest that I was a Protestant but I wasn't there lightly or without considerable thought. I fulfilled the penance he laid upon me. I fulfilled all the other conditions. I can't tell you why but having my indulgence is meaningful to me, even though I believe in justification by faith and that it is by God's grace alone that I will get to heaven.
I expect to work on these issues until the day I die.
falcon269 said:The author thinks he learned from the Camino, but did he?
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/char ... id=3525743
He who laughs last, laughs best. Two cyclists in full Spandex zipped past me, demanding the right-of-way, on the narrow path up to Alto de Perdon. I saw them at the top covered in mud. The hillside had given way under their assault, and they rolled several meters down the hill into the mud and brambles. I doubt that I shall ever be forgiven for the extreme pleasure I took in seeing them, probably because I refuse to ask for forgiveness!reminds me of a bout of anger at some saucy cyclists who nearly ran us down as they sped by us, laughing at us -- or so it seemed
falcon269 said:I understand anger and resentment as well as the next person; I just found it curious that it became the topic sentence in a reminiscence of the Camino. My top memory is the generosity of a stranger, not my anger.