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Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Saint Mary of Marija Bistrica, in Croatia. (Image: Kat von Wood/Unsplash.com)

“Any earthly pilgrimage is a mirror of our eternal pilgrimage to heaven,” says Fr Hugh Allan, the abbot of a Norbertine community in Chelmsford in England. “How we live here and now is what echoes for eternity and our earthly pilgrimage needs to be set with each day being set in the kingdom of God.”

By James Jeffrey, Catholic World Report, July 23, 2023

James Jeffrey is a freelance journalist, writer and Camino guide who splits his time between the US, the UK, the Iberian Peninsula and further afield Follow him on Twitter: @jrfjeffrey and at his website: www.jamesjeffreyjournalism.com. For more on the Camino go to www.santiagotrails.co.uk.

All bets are off when you venture forth on pilgrimage. You leave the mainframe, escaping the grid; you’ve gone rogue, delving to a deeper level of existence. As one pilgrim—a mother of seven and one of the UK’s few iconographers, so not exactly your turn-on-tune-in-and-drop-out kind of person—put it to me after we had been on the trail together for a few days, even the colors of the land take on the more vibrant and lurid sheen of some sort of LSD-infused adventure. …

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