Pilgrimages

Moreover, there are also other methods of cyber-pilgrimage that are commonly use to partake on a pilgrimage on a daily basis. These include pilgrimages videos on YouTube, virtual tours, and online pilgrimage websites of 3D replicates of sacred sites. For example, a very well known YouTube channel for pilgrimage is the America Media. This channel contains many pilgrimage journeys made by father James Martin. Father James is a Jesuit priest, a writer, and editor for the Jesuit magazine America.

Pilgrims on Pilgrimages Have you ever wondered how life was being on a pilgrimage in the 15th century? Around 476 AD, there were long voyages taken on by religious folk called pilgrims. These people would go on journeys to holy places that would hold a type of value to these pilgrims. In the 1500s, people living in Europe thought that the world would come to an end. As that time came, the world did not cease to exist. The people went into utter chaos and started questioning the Christian Church

I. Introduction Pilgrimages are the peaceful gatherings of people at sacred places such as, Kumbh Mela in India or Hajj in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrimages at places like Tirupati temple, Amarnath, Vaishnodevi, Jagannath Puri, Pandharpur are a few more examples in India. Millions of people from all around the world, gather to perform their rituals at these places. During these pilgrimages, pilgrims getting lost in the crowd is quite common. Finding the lost person is a difficult task not only for

exactly is a pilgrimage? A pilgrimage is a journey that people take for many reasons. Most people go on a pilgrimage to form a stronger connection with God, they ask for healing and forgiveness and follow him in his footsteps while visiting sacred places. On this journey people benefit from their connection with God in ways that are too difficult to explain but in the end they find the purpose of it all and the answers that they had asked themselves in the beginning were answered. Pilgrimages bring many

Exploring Pilgrimage Pilgrimage is a journey to sacred places that are inspired by religious devotion. The place that is visited is usually where events have happened in the past that are relevant or important to what the pilgrim believes. Pilgrimage is an ancient custom which has changed over many years. It used to be a long and dangerous journey, but now many treat it like a holiday. A very early example of a pilgrim was Hsüan Tsang, a 7th century Chinese Buddhist;

Doing the pilgrimage made me question things that Catholics do, especially with respect to figuring out what is tradition versus what our faith calls us to do. The single that impacted me the most was seeing the thorns, nails and pieces of the cross in the Holy Church of Jerusalem. It made me think of the pain Jesus had to go through to pay for our sins, and the fact that Jesus chose to do this for us. All my life I have known about the cross and what it meant. But there is a difference between

Pilgrimage /Christian, Muslim A Study of the Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land And the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca SSC 231 Cultural Conflict and Human Solidarity University College Utrecht May 2001 Introduction A French folklorist and ethnographer, Arnold Van Gennep (1908-1960) gave us the first clues about how ancient and tribal societies conceptualized and symbolized the transitions men have to make between states a statuses . He demonstrated that all rites of passage are marked

WHAT IS A PILGRIMAGE? A pilgrimage is both an inward and outward journey, both spiritual and physical, people who set on these journeys seek to strengthen and renew their faith. God calls on a person inviting them to come on this journey in order to know God more fully and to follow in the footsteps of Christ by forming a strong relationship with god which offers a person true freedom, a Christian pilgrimage can be seen as life long journey. EXPRESSION OF PILGRIMAGES IN THE PRESENT Pilgrimages have changed

Pilgrimages have existed for as long as faith has - almost every sect of religion has its own routes and locations of spiritual significance. Christianity is no exception, and the rise in popularity and importance of pilgrimages during the Middle Ages can be attributed to events that occurred around the millennium. Many people fearing the year 1000 - the predicted end of days in Revelations - were relieved when the millennium passed uneventfully. Because of this, enthusiasm for religion grew dramatically

In Gordan McConville’s chapter “Pilgrimage and ‘Place’: an Old Testament View, he reinterprets the meaning of pilgrimage in relation to the Old Testament. His consensus is the Christian theology views the history of holy sites and its geography as a restriction in a journey toward God. “Christians do not make hag to Jerusalem. There is no one holy place; God does not ‘live’ in Jerusalem even in the story of the Old Testament was never final or definitive,” (McConville, 26). Having mass in our hostel