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Want to know what are some of the most popular Christian pilgrimages? You’ve come to the right place! With the information below, you’ll be able to learn about some of the most popular places to go on pilgrimage as a Christian including how to to travel to these places, and what to see and do […]
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Just to give a little background–World Youth Day was my first hardcore pilgrimage experience. Ya know, visiting places as an act of religious devotion, and encountering God through sacred sites, seeing the universal Church, and rejoicing in it all. And World Youth Day very much comprises all those things! I’ve been to two World Youth
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Going on pilgrimages involve going to sacred sites as part of a religious devotion or goal. Sometimes these sacred sites are also where people can visit relics. Relics and pilgrimages go well hand in hand because major shrines and churches often house significant relics. Relics also connect us to the past or tangibly help us
One of the cool things about being Christian is that there’s a whole menu of religious devotions. Two such devotions, pilgrimages and retreats, are spiritually more involved and often entail something like “go here, and do this religious thing.” But pilgrimages are not exactly the same as a retreat or vice versa. Let’s take a
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Up until 2013, most of my spiritual experiences requiring travel involved going on retreats and visiting churches that are not my own parish. Since 2013, I’ve gone on a good mixture of pilgrimages. From the March for Life in Washington, DC, the World Youth Days in Rio and Krakow, and the many scattered locations throughout
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Before starting Pilgrim for Less, I sent out a survey to a handful of friends. One of the questions I asked was “Describe your ideal pilgrimage”. I received an interesting variety of responses, and I wanted to share with you some of those answers: “with my family anywhere, anytime as long as we are complete,
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Let me just go ahead and say it—there is never a best time to go on a pilgrimage. #SpoilerAlert. Drop mic. Walk away. Done. And. Done. I guess I could just end this post with that, but let’s explore this further. For me personally, I’m quite excellent at coming up with excuses with not going
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Mmm, pilgrimages. When I say the word “pilgrimage”, it likely brings up thoughts of long journeys visiting holy or sacred sites from the ancient world. Place yourself in those thoughts. Maybe you smell a little, but at least you’ve got your trekking pole and hiker’s backpack. Your feet are tired from walking 10 miles today,
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I have a big problem for 2018. Money and time are no longer in great abundance for me. No, it’s not like I was swimming in $100 bills while sipping long island iced teas like I don’t have work tomorrow. But up until this point, I had a little bit more money and a little
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