YES!!!!! ...thank you soo much for this translation. I heard it yesterday at Mass and was very moved by it ( i understand enough spanish to get it, but now i can forward and share it with friends)
Happy to receive it...
And...not to hijack this thread....i arrived in santiago last friday after four weeks on the portuguese caminho....oh the marvels and the beauty and the rain and the vinho
Anyway .... Saturday i got suddenly and violently ill and was quite on my own...and only yesterday started eating again slowly....at a cafe not too far from the catedrale.... When i felt drawn back to the catedrale. So, gingerly I walked back to this wondrous place...using the hiking pole as a cane..and walked right into noon mass...and stayed all the way through...standing in the nave.
Everything now seemed so much more meaningful to me and something completed itself....Santiagos timing, not mine.
Friday i also attended the evening mass...but i was just there..not with it. The caminho already had been IT...full of blessings, i somehow did not look towards the mass in any specuial way...BUT
Perhaps i had to be utterly purged of whatever needed to leave my system before i could really witness the proper "end" of this pilgrimage...
And in that state to hear the special blessing...i really felt so simply still and peacedul and very grateful.
And after mass we were once again blessed the fragrant way....what a lovely surprise (to me, i had no clue it would swing) ....
And now reading the translation....
GREAT!
Am in porto now...making my way back to lisbon slowly..
Best wishes
Claudia