14th June, 2009 - Posted by Neil Harrigan - 4 Comments
-Coppenhagen, Denmark
Neil Harrigan, who recently completed his PhD thesis on the Spirituality of Pilgrimage, shares some thoughts about Princess Mary, the Australian experience and learning through pilgrimage.
18th June, 2009 - Posted by Neil Harrigan - No Comments
Some of the pilgrims have taken the chance to see the sights with our guide for the next week, including visiting the Cathedral in Athens where we will share our first Eucharist together. Our spiritual journey begins, how often do we all feel we have to start our spiritual journey again and again. Enjoy the photos!
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19th June, 2009 - Posted by Neil Harrigan - No Comments
After an afternoon experiencing all the difficulties and failures Paul experienced in Corinth today, we commence our days tracking St Paul at sea. Yesterday Archbishop Coleridge taught us to view our evangelisation with its ups and downs in the way of the footsteps of Paul.
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Comment from Neil at the end of the day “We have just had one of our major exeperiences as we visited the monasteries of Meteora” (see “Messages”)
After the majesty of the monastic communities of Meteroea we are now traversing the central Macedonia, the home territory of Phillip and Alexander the Great. St. Paul knew this area well. While we are travelling by air-conditioned coach, Paul went on foot, and the landscape is far from flat. The apostle to the Gentiles was nothing if not fit. Soon we will celebrate Mass at Berea, where Paul also stopped and preached.
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Photos under the cut.
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I’m now in Manhattan which in some ways couldn’t be further from the world of St Paul through some of which we have journeyed on this pilgrimage. Distance - if not time, given that it’s only a day ago that we bade farewell to each other - lends a certain perspective. So I find myself asking, What did it all mean? Of course the question is impossible to answer; each pilgrim will have a different story to tell. A bit like World Youth Day, this was a complex experience that moved in many different directions and at many different levels. Perhaps in the end only God can take the full measure of it. But I’m certain that each pilgrims will never hear or read St Paul again in quite the same way. They said as much as the final dinner we had on our last night in Rome. What they meant is that, trudging around some of the places where Paul’s mission unfolded and hearing his words in situ, they met the man himself in a new way.
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Footsteps of Saint Paul