Sentences with phrase «of pilgrimage»

The small town is home to the famous Sacre Monti, a UNESCO World Heritage site and place of pilgrimage for many.

Day 2 Morning boat on the Ganges to see the colourful bathing ghats, a place of pilgrimage for spiritual cleansing and funeral rights in the sacred river.

The ONLY reason for burying this carrion at sea is to prevent a situation in which his grave becomes a place of pilgrimage of those millions.

Though he seemed barely capable of affection for his family (his occasional devotions to Holly were not fully reciprocated), in late middle age he began an impassioned study of his genealogy, and the bare Pennsylvania church yards where his ancestors lay buried became sites of pilgrimage for him.

An early display in the original one - room gallery was declared «a first - rate exhibition of fine arts» by a reviewer from the New York Times, who credited the organization with helping to establish Woodstock as a «place of pilgrimage in the art world.»

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage By Haruki Murakami Vintage • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780804170123 Another million - seller comes to paperback with this edition of the latest book from international literary star Murakami.

Millions of Muslims hold four days of festivities after end of pilgrimage to Mecca Attorney General Sheikh Saud al - Mojeb said the status of the detainees would not influence the firm and fair application of justice, AFP news

I had stopped going to church when I was seventeen and had been on a kind of pilgrimage of my own making — a pseudo Eastern - hippy - thing — hardly an ironclad or defendable.

Her work was praised by the jury for its beautiful production, technical excellence and sensitive illustration of pilgrimage as a journey of discovery and sacrifice to a greater power.

This circuitous account of my pilgrimage is crucial to the rest of what I will be saying.

It marks the start of the pilgrimage route stretching 800 km to the Pyrenees and then a further 800 km across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela.

I love the idea of a pilgrimage site slowly developing its facilities for people to visit, to live there for a while and to leave their mark — little churches, walls of votive offerings, town squares, guest houses, fountains, murals, presumably coffee shops.

A powerpoint with youtube links introducing students to the concept of pilgrimage in comparison to a tourist.

Concretely physical, the ancient practice of pilgrimage pushes beyond the usual crop of spiritual disciplines that are only for the introverted, contemplative or intuitive.

Walking on Wall Street is sort of a pilgrimage for us financial fans.

Phil Cousineau Author, The Art of Pilgrimage and The Book of Roads

Pay homage to a movie star, rock musician, etc. in form of a pilgrimage visit.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

C. S. Lewis wrote in a 1939 sermon: «If we thought we were building up a heaven on earth, if we looked for something that would turn the present world from a place of pilgrimage into a permanent city satisfying the soul of man, we are disillusioned.»

By comparison to other medieval Western portrayals of Islam, Riccoldo's Book of Pilgrimage is a fresh, realistic, and perceptive portrait of Islam as it was practiced in the lands of its birth.

«On June 4th, a day of pilgrimage for Sikhs when thousands had gathered at the Golden Temple, army tanks moved into the Temple Complex, smashing into the sanctum and shooting everyone in sight.

These lessons include a range of tasks to help students understand and explore the relevance and history of pilgrimage in Christian traditions.

This lesson looks at the spiritual value of a pilgrimage made to Israel from a Christian perspective.

Concurrent exhibitions of Starling's work, currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and the Arts Club of Chicago, present us with similar byproducts of pilgrimages made by both the artist and his artworks.

The notion of pilgrimage is rooted symbolically in death, with the pilgrim removing herself from the physical world in order to journey spiritually to the next.

The work was praised by the jury for its beautiful production, technical excellence and sensitive illustration of pilgrimage as a journey of discovery and sacrifice to a greater power.

Gary, I was not speaking of YOUR personal journey; but from the perspective of my own transitional experience and the experiences of others who have informally shared the stories of their pilgrimages of faith with me — and they have been many.

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

Before we look at the Psalm, you might be interested to know that this Psalm is a Psalm of Pilgrimage.

And still more, faith — looking at death through the prism of the crucified and risen Jesus — trusts that this evil can be used for good, that the boundary of death will prove to be not the negation but the fulfillment of our pilgrimage.

The result is a careful, systematic exploration of pilgrimage and its possibilities.

Critics of pilgrimage rightly observe that one need not travel far to seek or find God.

But in God's Continent, Philip Jenkins observes that the «continuing popularity of pilgrimages... refutes simple claims that European Christianity is dead,» and he suggests that pilgrimage may reinvent and reinvigorate European Christianity.

Rather, they invite us into deeper and richer pursuits, the promise and potential of pilgrimage.

He does not confine the meaning of pilgrimage to an internal process, and he writes frequently about sojourns that he's taken or led for others.

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.

Often, Rupp notes, we do not see the converting power of the sustained and sacrificial undertaking of pilgrimage until well afterward: «Only then do we recognize how a new attitude, a stronger dedication, and a fuller passion stretched us into the fullness of life.»

The devotion to the saints, the shrines and places of pilgrimage do not often carry the message of good news to the poor in a socially liberative direction.

... I have found that the process of pilgrimage is more transformative than simply reaching a destination.

Each bodily movement of the pilgrimage has a corresponding movement of the heart.

Each step of the journey, each of the rites of the pilgrimage — such as circumambulation of the Ka «ba, the kissing of the Black Stone, the standing on Mount Arafat — is a symbol of great spiritual significance.

Probably no single crisis moved her to renounce war; more likely she arrived at this decision as a result of her pilgrimage of faith, having mellowed and matured in her Christian experience.

Moreover, atheism in his day was torn between the abolition of churches — a radicalism that would encourage free - flowing personal change and render impossible the safe teleology of pilgrimage — and the desire to erect a single, standard community of «Enlightened» unbelievers.

Many of the songs chosen for the album emphasize the theme of pilgrimage, and the vocal harmonies of songs like «Angel Band» remind us of our heavenly destination.