pilgrimage

A Good Camino

by Jim Manney

I went to see the new movie The Way this week, and I can warmly recommend it.  It’s one of those movies that causes you to ask “How can they make an interesting movie out of that?”  Recent examples are Moneyball (statistical analysis changes the way front office executives put together baseball teams) and The [...]

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An Ignatian Pilgrimage

by Jim Manney

A group of lay people and Jesuits have set up a new pilgrimage route in Spain that should appeal to walkers and cyclists with an Ignatian bent.  It’s called the Camino Ignaciano (the Ignatian “way” or “road”). It’s the route St. Ignatius walked in 1522 after his conversion.  It begins at his family’s home in [...]

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World Youth Day

by Tim Muldoon

Please keep the pilgrims at World Youth Day (WYD) in your prayers. I am at the Jesuit-run Colegio Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo with hundreds of young people who went on the Magis Program in advance of WYD, and they are bursting with stories of how they have been transformed by experiences of pilgrimage, service, vigil, [...]

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The Life of Pilgrimage

by Tim Muldoon

I am in China with my family on a heritage tour, a pilgrimage of sorts.  Those familiar with my book Longing to Love know that my daughters are Chinese, so we have returned here in order to see their orphanages and learn more about this land and these people. This has been holy time.  I [...]

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Best Ignatian Songs: To Be a Pilgrim

by Jim Manney

In his autobiography, St. Ignatius Loyola wrote of himself in the third person as “the pilgrim.” As David Fleming, SJ, writes in What Is Ignatian Spirituality?, “Ignatius looked at his entire life as a pilgrimage. His journey seemed for a time to be a meandering one. For many years he pursued a goal indistinctly seen [...]

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