With over twenty-five years of experience in making and leading spiritual pilgrimages, Fr. Murray Bodo is the perfect guide to this ancient Christian tradition. Here, Fr. Murray leads us to traditional pilgrim sites such as Rome and Assisi, but also on journeys of memory—back to childhood, and to the churches and landscapes of our past. Ultimately, we find that spiritual pilgrimage not only enriches our lives, but transforms us into the people that we are called to become.
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"Pilgrimages are not about one place being more holy than another, for God is everywhere," writes Bodo, a Franciscan priest and author of Francis, the Journey and the Dream. "Making pilgrimages involves a response to something inside us that longs to move toward, that seeks the holy beyond." Pilgrimage is about change and renewal, hope and transformation, whether it involves a physical journey or not. In the opening chapters, Bodo highlights the historic characteristics of a medieval pilgrimage, which was marked by distinctive dress, a dangerous path and the likelihood that the pilgrim would never return. Although contemporary pilgrimages are typically shorter and less perilous, Bodo says they can be as fraught with significance as the medieval kind: "we sense intuitively that this holy journey is a rehearsal for death and resurrection." Bodo makes his musings concrete with reflections about his own pilgrimages—to his parents' graves once a year, to Assisi multiple times, to Rome and the tomb of John XXIII. The bulk of this short book consists of Bodo's meditations on his pilgrimages to Assisi, and the healing and comfort that such journeys have brought. His quiet, introspective guide encourages readers to undertake the spiritual journey of pilgrimage whether or not they leave their armchairs.
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Murray Bodo, a Franciscan priest, is the author of twenty-one books, including the international bestseller Francis, the Journey and the Dream. Fr. Murray is a professor and scholar in the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University, New York.
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startlingly precise reflections on life and pilgrimage,
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This is a remarkable book on pilgrimage offered by a Franciscan priest and pilgrimage leader. It takes story, ritual, and Spirit as the key features of the pilgrim's map, and combines these with the author's personal reflections on his own pilgrimages, both in his journey through life and in his visits to Rome and Assisi, Italy. The short chapters are not descriptions of places, but guided meditations on each stage of the inward and outward journey. The text is poetic, evocative, and full of crystallized observations about our travel towards God, viewing life itself as pilgrimage and pilgrimage as an enacted metaphor for our inward travel.
Bodo writes: "Pilgrimages are not about one place being more holy than another, for God is everywhere. Making pilgrimages involves a response to something inside us that longs to move *toward*, that seeks the holy *beyond.*" [9]
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Great book for peregrinos....,
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I bought this book on the recommendation of a fellow peregrino (those that walk the Camino de Santiago) and found it to be a lovely piece of work. It was easy to read and I could relate to it very well. For those seeking to do a pilgrimage or those just on the pilgrimage of life, I recommend this book.
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