amado
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Every pilgrim who reaches Santiago de Compostela and gets the Compostelano usually asks: What next?
We are usually told that the end of the Camino Pilgrimage is a beginning of another journey.
I am starting this thread so that those who have made the Camino can share what happened to them after their pilgrimage - how did the Camino experience affect them profoundly, what changes took place, what kind of journey did they undertake.
Let me begin with myself.
Eight months after the Camino, I am leaving the Academe and taking on another work. For 16 years, I have been a professor of theology for those studying for ministry, working mostly in the classroom. After the Camino I decided to take another work that has something to do with forming Basic Ecclesial Communities (or Catholic grassroots community) that live according the spirit of the early Christian community. I want to journey with ordinary Christians in forming genuine communities of faith.
I do want to do the Camino again but Spain is so far from the Philippines. I can do it again perhaps on the next Xacobeo in 2021.
So the next best thing is to do Solo Running/Walking Pilgrimage for Life and Peace across the Philippines, covering 2000+ km in 58 days. I will still put the scallops on my mochilla and journey across my country, preaching about the Gospel of Life and Peace in various parishes. I will start 3 days from now (April 1, 2011). This is my continuing Camino. Near the end of the Pilgrimage is an old pilgrim shrine - Our Lady of Piat. I will call this route the Camino dela Vida y Paz.
What about you?
We are usually told that the end of the Camino Pilgrimage is a beginning of another journey.
I am starting this thread so that those who have made the Camino can share what happened to them after their pilgrimage - how did the Camino experience affect them profoundly, what changes took place, what kind of journey did they undertake.
Let me begin with myself.
Eight months after the Camino, I am leaving the Academe and taking on another work. For 16 years, I have been a professor of theology for those studying for ministry, working mostly in the classroom. After the Camino I decided to take another work that has something to do with forming Basic Ecclesial Communities (or Catholic grassroots community) that live according the spirit of the early Christian community. I want to journey with ordinary Christians in forming genuine communities of faith.
I do want to do the Camino again but Spain is so far from the Philippines. I can do it again perhaps on the next Xacobeo in 2021.
So the next best thing is to do Solo Running/Walking Pilgrimage for Life and Peace across the Philippines, covering 2000+ km in 58 days. I will still put the scallops on my mochilla and journey across my country, preaching about the Gospel of Life and Peace in various parishes. I will start 3 days from now (April 1, 2011). This is my continuing Camino. Near the end of the Pilgrimage is an old pilgrim shrine - Our Lady of Piat. I will call this route the Camino dela Vida y Paz.
What about you?