Sentences with phrase «as pilgrimage»

Kiki Smith's Mortal explores life as a pilgrimage.

The series began as a pilgrimage to a remote area of Cornwall, on the south - western tip of the UK, where the trans - Atlantic fibre - optic cables that carry the Internet emerge from the ocean; a quest to rediscover the optimism, inspiration and sense of community he had found in the Internet's early days.

Well - known as a pilgrimage, Gokarna is a major tourist destination set in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka.

Before 1540 when Europeans immigrated to the Grand Canyon, this site was used as a habitat for Native Americans and later as a pilgrimage site for the Pueblo peoples.

Don discussed what the day - to - day life of a travel writer is like, how to approach travel as a pilgrimage, traveling to sensitive places that need to be preserved, the cultural effects travelers have on the places they visit, how best to visit areas that are politically volatile, how travel writing enhances the experience of travel, and figuring out the meaning of life.

1) introduction lesson - «silent sentences» activity 2) Core notes for the A2 course, covering the period from Jan 1535 to Oct 1536 (as Pilgrimage of Grace is about to start) for students 3) Structured discussion lesson to consolidate understanding 4) source work - comparative evaluation in line with new spec

But as their pilgrimage to American begins, Jon's dream for fame, success and the spotlight, begins to clash with the rest of these eccentric musicians and especially Clara (often with hysterically funny results).

But there's enough in the comparison — «the soul of soulless circumstances,» if you like — that it's certainly possible to think about going to see Messi at the Nou Camp as a pilgrimage, as a journey to see something that might not be explicitly divine, but is certainly special and powerful and perhaps even life - changing.

In the spirit of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, experience these unique wines as a pilgrimage in sensory delight.

In the Guarani indigenous tradition, in Brazil and Paraguay, it was seen as the pilgrimage to «a land without evils.»

And Mohamed destroyed all the idols but kept Mecca as a pilgrimage for the only one God that worshipped Abraham.

In an open letter, Chavez explained his hope that the march would function as a pilgrimage, that it would not only raise awareness of injustice, but also remind strikers of their own sins:

While the outside world saw Chavez's protest as a political march, he and the farm workers also saw it as a pilgrimage.

The idea is simple: avoid getting worn down by a European or American winter and build your venture from «Silicon Bali,» as Ubud — mostly known as a pilgrimage place for wellness seekers since Elizabeth Gilbert wrote a part of Eat Pray Love there — has been dubbed.

Not exact matches

The annual pilgrimage of artists, nudists and partiers to Nevada's Black Rock desert is underway, as the week - long Burning Man festival begins.

The 2017 recipients of the Ellis Island Medals of Honor gathered Saturday for a brief and rainy pilgrimage to the island that served as the landing point for the ancestors of an estimated 40 % of Americans.

Many roads were backed up for miles as residents made the pilgrimage back to their homes.

As we anticipate this exciting next step in space exploration, it's worth noting that when this Martian pilgrimage occurs in the fall of 2020, the planets will quite literally align.

As for the somewhat chaotic condition in the Vatican in the latter years of the pontificate — not to mention the poor preparation for the 2012 pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, which seems to have had an impact far beyond the Caribbean — why did Pope Benedict not ind himself a more competent «prime minister» than Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose record as Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwisAs for the somewhat chaotic condition in the Vatican in the latter years of the pontificate — not to mention the poor preparation for the 2012 pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, which seems to have had an impact far beyond the Caribbean — why did Pope Benedict not ind himself a more competent «prime minister» than Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose record as Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwisas Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwisas personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwise?

Those who know themselves to be on pilgrimage to the Kingdom of God know that sex, as important as it is, can no more define us than can power or money, ethnicity, or politics.

Those without a formal religious affiliation might make the pilgrimage because the pilgrimage as symbolic of human life is an image that they recognize.

Pilgrimage began: first the Christian King from his toehold of Northern territory in Asturias, and, as Spanish Christians slowly reconquered their homeland they invoked Santiago Matamoros, who had appeared to aid them in the battle of Clavijo.

He irst tells the anecdote of the most notorious pilgrim, Fulk III, Count of Anjou, who accumulated as penances no less than four pilgrimages to the Holy Land (no spoilers from me, but Stark concludes that maybe that was «far too few» p. 104).

Fredriksen reasons that Jesus, as a believing Jew, made the festival pilgrimage to Jerusalem regularly.

The pilgrimage, called the Hajj, happens in the same global neighborhood as countries that have been roiled by protests, revolutions and war over the last 11 months.

Footnotes suggest a scenario behind the text: an illness, an inability to make pilgrimage to the Jerusalem temple, the taunt of naysayers who treat bad health as a sign of divine disfavor, the persistent hope that the soul now cast down will once again be raised up.

Muslims have always looked to the Qur» an as their guide and have prayed and fasted and made pilgrimages as the Prophet did.

Therefore the Prophet (may God bless him) has said, «Islam is put upon five principles: belief In the single God and in Muhammad as His Messenger, performance of prayers, payment of religious tax, keeping of the month of Ramadan, and pilgrimage to the Holy Mosque by whoever finds the way clear to do it.»

Diaspora and pilgrimages were not just part of the corporate memory of his people; they belonged to his own personal history, as Matthew's narratives of Jesus» exile in Egypt show (Matt.

Pilgrimage remains one of the vital pillars of Islam, wisely instituted by the Qur» an and Sunnah as a form of worship which brings Muslims closer to God and to each other.

Many people go to Mt. Athos as a form of pilgrimage.

They keep the five pillars of Islam but emphasize deep philosophical contemplation in prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage as did the Mu «tazilites with whom they agree in considering God far above having any limiting attributes.

We believe in something not of submission to Allah and your Five Pillars of Islam with Mecca's pilgrimage as being holy foolish and unecessary cause not all poor people or people able to go to Mecca either.

, Newman saw these assorted proto - revelations as themselves signs, not just of the presence of God's logoi spermatikoi in all of human society but also as pathmarkers for the Church's evangelizing pilgrimage through salvation history, a journey he describes in one of the most magnificent passages in his Essay on Development:

If it were not for the pilgrimage, the Hijaz would have lost its religious power as well.

Christian scripture depicts the end of the human pilgrimage as a heavenly city, the New Jerusalem; and the relationship between this world and the next was articulated paradigmatically for Christians in the fifth century in St. Augustine's classic The City of God.

Justin Welby has described his 12 day trip, which draws to a close on Friday, as a «pastoral pilgrimage».

The Maharishi holds a degree in physics from the University of Allahabad, but as a young man he abandoned scientific study of the material world to begin his pilgrimage toward spiritual understanding.

Some scholars argue that involvement in pilgrimage increases as churchgoing diminishes.

As with the Passover, these other holy days were holidays on which the people made a pilgrimage to Yahweh's sanctuary (v. 16).

In his journal Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 he wrote: «The Latins take a great deal of pains to expose this ceremony, as a most shameful imposture, and a scandal to the Christian religion; perhaps out of envy, that others should be the masters of so gainful business; but the Greek and Armenians pin their faith upon it, and make their pilgrimages chiefly upon this motive.»

He sees pilgrimage not as a single practice but as a collection of practices: community, hospitality, communion, friendship, worship, prayer and encountering strangers.

R. Murray describes them as «homeless followers of the homeless Jesus on... ceaseless pilgrimage through the world.»

As my own pilgrimage of discovery continues to unfold, I find my life filled with surprises.

As Hull says, «Ultimate reality was not to be sought in a set of timeless facts which maybe mastered at any moment, but in companionship with the Spirit of truth who leads one on a pilgrimage of discovery.»

But now the original sense of pilgrimage as a concretely physical spiritual practice is being recovered by broad sections of the Christian community and by people beyond the church's walls as well.

Ezedine Guellouz's account of his pilgrimage to the Prophet's tomb is simpler, but just as moving.

Indeed, most people find that talking about their pilgrimages and their beliefs as Christians is itself a means of grace that enhances: and strengthens the faith they already have.

As a result, «ideas of purity and impurity» which were so pervasive in the lives of Hindus have become much weaker, and in the life - style of the middle class they are «becoming confined to rites of passage, pilgrimages and a few festivals».

«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).