pilgrimage

• what is pilgrimage?

  journey to a religious place deepen faith and get closer to christ / mary / early martyrs
• examples of pilgrimages

  • holy land
  • jerusalem
  • rome
  • walsingham
  • lourdes
• why is holy land important?

  jesus lived and taught there
• why is jerusalem important?

  • where jesus died and resurrected
  • helps catholics empathise with jesus suffering
  • deepens faith in paschal mystery
• what do pilgrims visit in jerusalem?

  • cenacle - where upper room was
  • holy sepulchre - church in place where jesus was crucified
  • walk the via dolorosa - way of suffering
• why is rome important?

  helps catholics pray to apostles

  see mass with pope
• what do you visit in rome?

  • st peters basilica - where he is buried
  • walk through holy door - pardons sins
• why is lourdes important?

  people pray there hoping to be healed or be closer with mary
• what do you visit in lourdes?

  • shrine to mary with healing spring water
• what happened in lourdes?

  st bernadette saw visions of mary
• why is walsingham important?

  unites anglicans and catholics in prayer
• what happened at walsingham?

  vision of mary
• replica of marys nazareth house was built in walsingham

  destroyed but rebuilt in the 20th century
• church quote

  in prayer the pilgrim church is associated with that of the saints whose intercession she asks
• divergent views:

  • protestants will visit jerusalem or taize
  • martin luther: pilgrims should stop, no commandment to go and you dont need to as god is everywhere
• what is taize?

  place where you meet other christians