They are called pelegrinos, the people walking the Camino, the Way, to Santiago de Compostela – pelegrinos, the Spanish word for pilgrims. Why are they walking? The motivations are many. For many, the motivations are mixed, confused. To get the Compostela in Santiago (the certificate that you have participated in this pilgrimage), you have to
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I don’t wear one, but someone came and asked me what the knots of the cincture (cord around the waist over the alb) mean. I’m afraid that my response, “they mean that you don’t end up tripping up over the cord,” didn’t satisfy this person. Something completely made up, like: “one knot represents the divinity
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On September 11, the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, my sermon included how attitudes of so many, many people began changing towards Islam, towards Muslims – a fifth of the world’s population. Later, the same day, I heard about the Nelson Anglican Cathedral not allowing a religious-tolerance concert in its
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Many are celebrating Creation Season. This site is committed to the three year lectionary (RC) and its derivative, the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). Creation and redemption form the warp and weft of the Bible. Abandoning the agreed lectionary in order to focus on creation is an admission that you do not find enough about creation
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Remember the 67-70 AD war of Jews against Romans. The Romans won – the temple was destroyed; Jerusalem lay in ruins. Hadrian was born just after that, 76AD. He was the Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He rebuilt the Pantheon, and built “Hadrian’s Wall”, the northern limit of Britannia – areas of the island
In the evening, after several meetings, including with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in which he pleaded to “reactivate” direct negotiations with the Palestinians, Pope Francis went into Rome to change the lenses in his glasses. Jesus Was An Episcopalian – the whole series Father Matthew Presents “Confirmation Class,” Part 1/8 Last Week Tonight with John
Diocesan Synods are meeting in New Zealand. Many of them are reconsidering whether to assent to statutes fromGeneral Synod Te Hinota Whanui that they didn’t assent to last year. My plea is send them all back for further work. They all could do with significant improvements. One Statute (713) seems to be simply about whether
It makes great sense to me that monasticism spearheads inter-faith dialogue. Comparing different religions, different faiths, different approaches and understandings of living, can too easily degenerate merely to observable practices (I cross myself left to right, you cross yourself right to left…) Such real dialogue, I suggest, is better at the level of spirituality. And
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