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'Roads to Santiago - a Spiritual Guide for Pilgrims' - Redemptorist Press Price £6.95 by John Rafferty. A book of pilgrim reflections and could be used before or while on your pilgrimage. I can only find links to the old (2007) version but the new version (2016) is very well worth having (We have seen a preview copy). Maybe others can let you know when it will be available.
Also you could consider downloading 'Forty Days - A Devotional Companion for the Camino to Santiago' which is basically Bible selcetions for the few days before departure, through the time on the Camino and for arrival in Santiago itself.
Buen Camino
Thank you,In fact the new international edition of the Spiritual Companion is available here for £5.95 or from the English language associations across the world. Ivar will also have some copies in a week or so
http://www.rpbooks.co.uk/products/1709/camino-to-santiago-a-spiritual-companion
couldn't have said it better myself....I feel the same way.A very good question. At this point, all I know for certain is that I must do this. I could name several reasons right now, but I am trusting that the purpose for the call will become known when I am ready. That is my prayer and hope.
this certainly spoke to me ~ in a big way. Thank you for sharing it.if the nature of pilgrimage is deep introspection - which is why a pilgrim needs to go alone - then I would recommend (and cheap 2ndhand on Ebay)
(of) The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis ... a 15th C book on how to be rather than what to do. It can be dipped into, just a paragraph read and meditated upon ... it is a marvellous book
par ex: from Chapter 1
".... it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.
This is the greatest wisdom: “to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world.” It is vanity, therefore, to seek and trust in riches that perish. It is vanity also to court honor and to be puffed up with pride. It is vanity to follow the lusts of the body and to desire things for which severe punishment later must come. It is vanity to wish for long life and to care little about a well-spent life. It is vanity to be concerned with the present only and not to make provision for things to come. It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides."
I think that for most of us preparing for a pilgrimage involves a lot of practical getting ready, getting one's home life and finances in order and preparing one's gear for a long walk. These external preparations are motivated by the call, however we experience it. So all practical preparations are the visible signs of our response to an inner call. I see this as obedience, particularly as the experiences and rewards of the pilgrimage are then entirely unknown. As a believer going on pilgrimage to a religious site in response to a call, your essential preparation is going, which involves getting ready to go. If you have read the Bible you will know that all the great religious journeys of the Old and New Testaments are in response to a call which remains mysterious in the initial response. You are doing something profoundly spiritual in saying, "Yes" and getting ready to go.
I think that for most of us preparing for a pilgrimage involves a lot of practical getting ready, getting one's home life and finances in order and preparing one's gear for a long walk. These external preparations are motivated by the call, however we experience it. So all practical preparations are the visible signs of our response to an inner call. I see this as obedience, particularly as the experiences and rewards of the pilgrimage are then entirely unknown.
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