Noire Pilgrim Post Index – Spain

🇪🇸 My Pilgrimage in Spain – Summer 2023

they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and I keep on remembering mine

Lucille Clifton

This page is a convenient and efficient reference for all of the blog posts related to my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela during the summer of 2023.

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How it began.

June

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Two years later…

During the summer of 2023, I chronicled my pilgrimage in Spain where I walked 1400 kilometers on the camino Mozárabe, the camino Via de la Plata, and camino Sanabrès – northward, west, and north again – to Santiago de Compostela and beyond.

Read my announcement here.

How it came to be.

May

  • 🇪🇸NP: The Walk of My Life……… 05/09/2023
  • NP: MMOG Backpack – Part 1………. 05/19/2023
  • NP: MMOG Backpack – Part 2………. 05/24/2023
  • NP: Inside My Backpack………. 05/29/2023

June

July

August

September

October

  • NP: After the Camino………. 10/02/2023
  • Praying With My Feet – Part 2………. 10/19/2023
  • Praying With My Feet – Part 3………. 10/20/2023

December


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Author: Shirley J ♥️

PILGRIM’S PRAYER

Although I may have traveled all the roads, crossed mountains and valleys from East to West, if I have not discovered the freedom to be myself,  I have arrived nowhere.

Although I may have shared all of my possessions with people of other languages and cultures; made friends with Pilgrims of a thousand paths or shared an albuergue with saints and princes, if I am not capable of forgiving my neighbor tomorrow, I have arrived nowhere.

Although I may have carried my pack from beginning to end and waited for every Pilgrim in need of encouragement, or given my bed to one who arrived later than I; or given my bottle of water in exchange for nothing; if upon returning to my home and work,  I am not able to create brotherhood or to make happiness, peace and unity, I have arrived nowhere.

Although I may have had food and water each day, and enjoyed a roof and shower every night; or may have had my injuries well attended; if I have not discovered in all that the love of God, I have arrived nowhere.

Although I may have seen all the monuments and contemplated the best sunsets; although I may have learned a greeting in every language or tasted the clean water from every fountain; if I have not discovered who is the author of so much beauty and so much peace, I have arrived nowhere.

If from today I do not continue walking on your path, searching and living according to what I have learned; and from today I do not see in every person, friend or foe, a companion on the Camino; if from today I cannot recognize God, the God of Jesus of Nazareth as the one God of my life, I have arrived nowhere.

– Fraydino