{"id":22206,"date":"2023-03-08T07:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22206"},"modified":"2023-03-08T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:46:00","slug":"spiritual-disciplines-of-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22206","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Disciplines of Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simon &amp; Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Lyrics)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h0n-mYqB9WQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Father Richard shares some \u201cdisciplines\u201d or practices that he believes are essential for making a pilgrimage a Spirit-filled journey instead of merely a trip: \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, what I\u2019d like to speak about are disciplines or what we call spiritual practices. If we want to prepare and open our spirits to receive everything we can and to perceive the fullness of the moment, I would like to at least suggest a few interior disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primarily, a pilgrimage is an individual matter between the person and God. It\u2019s not horizontal as much as vertical. The <strong>primary concern is that we make an interior journey and hopefully find a bigger God.<\/strong> Therefore, I want to encourage each of us to take time alone each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, let us practice the discipline of<strong> silence<\/strong>. Secondly, let us take some <strong>solitude. <\/strong>Thirdly, we practice the discipline of <strong>speech.<\/strong> Our patterns of many years are that whenever there is a moment of silence, we fill it up by talking. Let\u2019s<strong> see if God can teach us a way to say only what\u2019s necessary and what\u2019s important.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We live in front of the TV, or whatever it might be. Now on pilgrimage, we\u2019re away from that. [<em>DM Team: Today, our <strong>smart phones make this discipline more difficult and even more essential!<\/strong><\/em>] We don\u2019t need to just fill the silence up with more sounds. There are <strong>things that don\u2019t need to be talked about, things that are just time fillers. They\u2019re just there to fill up our nervousness.<\/strong> How can we deepen the quality of our communication while we\u2019re on this retreat and this pilgrimage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you keep a journal on pilgrimage, I encourage you to take some silent time and write about your experience. Don\u2019t just journal about where we went and what we visited. Write about what\u2019s happening inside of you. <strong>As regrets and mistakes come forward in our consciousness\u2014and they\u2019re inside all of us\u2014just keep handing them over to God:<\/strong> \u201cGod, I\u2019m being judgmental again. I\u2019m being angry again. I\u2019m being impatient again.\u201d Then when you go to your journal, try as best you can to write down your interior experiences: \u201cHow am I feeling? What\u2019s God saying to me in prayer? What am I hearing?\u201d These are all disciplines to deepen the quality of our listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I ask all of us to pray for the freedom to be released from cynicism and judgment. We\u2019re going to encounter people who do and say things differently. <strong>If we move into \u201csophistication,\u201d we will lose the childlike spirit that Jesus talks about.<\/strong> A pilgrim must be like a child who can <strong>approach everything with an attitude of wonder and awe and faith. Let\u2019s pray for wonder. Let\u2019s pray for awe. Let\u2019s pray for desire, or better \u201cthe desire to desire,\u201d and ask God to take away our cynicism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-500x365.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22208\" width=\"701\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-500x365.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-300x219.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-768x561.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-1536x1123.png 1536w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3.png 1776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5&nbsp;<strong>I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you<\/strong>. 6 On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. 7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Richard shares some \u201cdisciplines\u201d or practices that he believes are essential for making a pilgrimage a Spirit-filled journey instead of merely a trip: \u00a0\u00a0 Today, what I\u2019d like to speak about are disciplines or what we call spiritual practices. 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