- Time of past OR future Camino
- Porto 2015.
Northern 2017
Francigena Oct 2023
I read with dismay of a peregrino's encounters with some "religious" sorts.
On my camino's, as a Catholic priest, it delights me to encounter the many reasons people have for the journey. How lovely that those of us from different and no spiritual backgrounds can share in the camino together, be it for grief, self-discovery, adventure, love of God, retirement, for the joy of it, for hope, to encounter deeper community, to find love, for the beauty, the silence, the conversations, the thinking, the emptiness, the fullness...and on and on. To walk along and hear someone else's very different story is one of the camino pleasures, isn't it?
This priest doesn't feel any more entitled to the camino than anyone else. Welcome world! The camino waits.
On my camino's, as a Catholic priest, it delights me to encounter the many reasons people have for the journey. How lovely that those of us from different and no spiritual backgrounds can share in the camino together, be it for grief, self-discovery, adventure, love of God, retirement, for the joy of it, for hope, to encounter deeper community, to find love, for the beauty, the silence, the conversations, the thinking, the emptiness, the fullness...and on and on. To walk along and hear someone else's very different story is one of the camino pleasures, isn't it?
This priest doesn't feel any more entitled to the camino than anyone else. Welcome world! The camino waits.