There are still some spaces on our Pilgrimage to Medjugorje this October.
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Showing posts with label pilgrimage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pilgrimage. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
24 Hours
24 hours until we depart for Medjugorje. Then it will be approximately another 24 hours until we arrive. Even by today's travel standards it can be considered a trek. Still, it is nothing like the pilgrimages of centuries ago. Those were life changing events that took years to complete.
My prayer today is that the pilgrims enter into the journey.
It is Pentecost and the timing is God sent
I pray the Holy Spirit continues to lead and guide our lovely group.
My prayer today is that the pilgrims enter into the journey.
It is Pentecost and the timing is God sent
I pray the Holy Spirit continues to lead and guide our lovely group.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Medjugorje Pilgrimage Holy Spirit Novena
COME HOLY SPIRIT
This post is for all the pilgrims readying themselves for our May 28 departure.
Please begin praying the Holy Spirit Novena that you received in your information packet.
God Bless
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| May 2011 waking up on the transatlantic |
Please begin praying the Holy Spirit Novena that you received in your information packet.
God Bless
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Hey Pilgrim!
The following link will take you a concise and very interesting update on Medugorje.
An upcoming pilgrimage is also being planned for late October into November and is starting to fill. If you feel called to go on pilgrimage please use the following email and mark 'inquire' in the subject line. This is just a preliminary request for more information.
Our last pilgrimage (this past May) was truly soul changing and life giving for many. Pray hard about the possibility of taking this time for your soul.
Check out the pilgrimage page as you discern.
An upcoming pilgrimage is also being planned for late October into November and is starting to fill. If you feel called to go on pilgrimage please use the following email and mark 'inquire' in the subject line. This is just a preliminary request for more information.
Our last pilgrimage (this past May) was truly soul changing and life giving for many. Pray hard about the possibility of taking this time for your soul.
Check out the pilgrimage page as you discern.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Pilgrims
In a couple of weeks we will be leaving for pilgrimage to Medugorje. My wife has been organizing and leading such pilgrimages for the past few years.
Now, if you would have told me ten years ago that not only would we be going to such a place but that we would return again and again--I would have laughed at you and promptly labeled you a wacko.
Years back when I was a Roman Catholic deacon--the assistant priest at the parish gave me a book entitled Medugorje, by Wayne Weible. I thought he was playing a joke on me. After all, I was the soon to be ordained "new-breed-of-open-minded-progressive-priest"--so I threw it away.
Many years later, my wife brought the book into our 'Episcopal home'
And the rest is a story soon to be published--(with an ironic twist of who is instrumental in bringing it to print)
Here are some pilgrimage correlations that I believe are applicable to the spiritual quest.
1. Ultimately God calls you and wants you.
2. satan hates it....satan doesn't want you, what he wants is to keep you from God--it's all about pride remember?
3. The Mother of God wants you to be with her Son.
4. Again, satan hates it....satan doesn't want you, what he wants is to keep you from God.
5. God's greatest work was you, the creation of your soul.
6. satan's work is not creative--in the end it is destructive and he will use any means to that end--ergo the many pings throughout the day just to keep your heart and mind from praying and working for God.
There is a direct correlation between the soul's desire for union with God and satan's nonstop pinging.
My wife could enumerate countless 'events' that accompany pilgrimage planning--Years back all the deposit money was lost in some overseas bank transaction, plane reservations have vanished, phone calls dropped, computers crashing--all surrounding pilgrimages. How about this one---an unseasonable snow fall on the morning we needed to make the first connection--then in the midst of the drive finding out that the back doors of the van were open with all the luggage exposed to snow, slush, and falling out---funny thing...no luggage was lost--weird? Pings.
My wife also has a prayer that she shares with those on pilgrimage reminding everyone that they are a pilgrim and not a tourist. It is a remarkable prayer that is applicable to the spiritual quest--i'll have to find it for you.
If we approach the spiritual journey as a pilgrim and not some entitled tourist then we begin to live with virtue and the greatest model of a spiritual pilgrim is the Mother of God.
Oh, and by the way--satan hates virtuous living.
Be a pilgrim.
Now, if you would have told me ten years ago that not only would we be going to such a place but that we would return again and again--I would have laughed at you and promptly labeled you a wacko.
Years back when I was a Roman Catholic deacon--the assistant priest at the parish gave me a book entitled Medugorje, by Wayne Weible. I thought he was playing a joke on me. After all, I was the soon to be ordained "new-breed-of-open-minded-progressive-priest"--so I threw it away.
Many years later, my wife brought the book into our 'Episcopal home'
And the rest is a story soon to be published--(with an ironic twist of who is instrumental in bringing it to print)
Here are some pilgrimage correlations that I believe are applicable to the spiritual quest.
1. Ultimately God calls you and wants you.
2. satan hates it....satan doesn't want you, what he wants is to keep you from God--it's all about pride remember?
3. The Mother of God wants you to be with her Son.
4. Again, satan hates it....satan doesn't want you, what he wants is to keep you from God.
5. God's greatest work was you, the creation of your soul.
6. satan's work is not creative--in the end it is destructive and he will use any means to that end--ergo the many pings throughout the day just to keep your heart and mind from praying and working for God.
There is a direct correlation between the soul's desire for union with God and satan's nonstop pinging.
My wife could enumerate countless 'events' that accompany pilgrimage planning--Years back all the deposit money was lost in some overseas bank transaction, plane reservations have vanished, phone calls dropped, computers crashing--all surrounding pilgrimages. How about this one---an unseasonable snow fall on the morning we needed to make the first connection--then in the midst of the drive finding out that the back doors of the van were open with all the luggage exposed to snow, slush, and falling out---funny thing...no luggage was lost--weird? Pings.
My wife also has a prayer that she shares with those on pilgrimage reminding everyone that they are a pilgrim and not a tourist. It is a remarkable prayer that is applicable to the spiritual quest--i'll have to find it for you.
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| Pieta--Michelangelo St. Peter's Basilica Vatican City |
Oh, and by the way--satan hates virtuous living.
Be a pilgrim.
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