Sentences with phrase «practice of pilgrimage»
Webb - Mitchell believes that pilgrimage is the richest paradigm for describing Christian growth: «The length and breadth of the Christian life is a pilgrimage and... it is through the actual practice of pilgrimage that we may best understand the experience of growth and change.»
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Concretely physical, the ancient practice of pilgrimage pushes beyond the usual crop of spiritual disciplines that are only for the introverted, contemplative or intuitive.
Sacred Travels: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage.
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And perhaps I may be permitted to note two recent books of my own: Roman Pilgrimage: The Stations Churches (Basic Books), co-authored with Elizabeth Lev and my son Stephen, and Practicing Catholic: Essays Historical, Literary, Sporting, and Elegiac (Crossroad).
The minor details in practices associated with the pilgrimage are only variations which developed in the different schools of law and are not significant.
He sees pilgrimage not as a single practice but as a collection of practices: community, hospitality, communion, friendship, worship, prayer and encountering strangers.
Five books on the practice of «pilgrimage» are reviewed.
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.
Which has became a practice for believers to slaughter lamb and other animals on Eid days such as Eid AlFiter after the fasting month and on Eid AlAdha which comes after the pilgrimage at Mecca at the House of GOD which was built by Abraham and Ismael...!
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.
Within these practices and accompanying ceremonial work and ritual action, a path is laid leading to physical and metaphysical health and simultaneously a pilgrimage is made towards a vital and radiant life and the tableaux of honey and sting.