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PILGRIMAGE IN ALABAMASpiritual Pilgrimage is part of the DNA in all people of faith. Pilgrimage walking is a form of praying. Share your pilgrimage prayers and photo's on this website. Coming in July will be additional photograph's of Holy Wells from Wales. 10月28日 PILGRIMAGE PRAYERSPILGRIMAGE PRAYERS
A Pilgrim's Prayer
For the love of God, creator
For the love of God, redeemer Jesus
For the love of God, spirit
I begin the pilgrim's way today.
(Source: Bill King, 2004)
Holy Wells
Since Abraham and Sarah, water has marked holy places,
and to this day, people of faith draw sacred water to their faces.
We pause to quench our thirst with water from the ground,
a blessing or a healing in the name of our God abounds.
Holy Wells now restored as places of prayer and silent reflection,
so may these thin places fulfill our spiritual expectations.
(Source: Bill King, 2007)
Navaho Pilgrimage Prayer from New Mexico
We must remember the worlds our ancestors traveled.
Always wear the songs they gave us.
Remember we are made of prayers.
Now we leave wrapped in a blanket of love and wisdom.
(Source unknown, 2005)
The Mountain Top Pilgrim
God walks more deeply on mountain tops, it is said.
Gold talks more clearly on mountain tops, I have read.
Crough Patrick, Tabor, Sinai, Athos, Morriah, Monte Cassino
are but a few where the foot print of God remains for us to see.
Pilgrims walk now with those who have come before today.
Pilgrims come to talk in prayer with those whose feet have led the way.
Hermon, Nebo, Wu-tai, Saint-Michel, Arafat, Sewanee, Monserrat:
we walk these mountain tops to pause for a moment in the silence of the holy.
(Source: Bill King, March, 2006)
Pilgrimage Prayer from Alabama
Circle me, O God, with your divine presence as
I step into holy places in my home state.
Help me to see your presence at home
Help me to see your presence
Help me to see you
Help me to see
Help me to
Help me
Circle me, O God. Amen
(Source: Bill King, 2004)
THE PILGRIM PRAYER (on the way to Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Guardian of my soul,
guide me on my way this day.
Keep me safe from harm.
Deepen my relationship with you,
your Earth, and all your family.
Strengthen your love within me
that I may be a presence of your peace
in our world. Amen
(source: Tom Pfeffer and Joyce Rupp, Walk in a Relaxed Manner, 2005)
A PILGRIM'S PRAYER IN IRELAND
The pilgrim's way is curved and narrow,
yet always marked as the way of the saints.
In the spirit of Bridget and Brendon, Kevin and Keiran,
Colman and Columba and always Patrick,
we travel the old pathways in prayer and joyfulness.
Amen
(Source: Bill King, 2006)
CROSSING THE THE IRISH SEA TO WALES
I crossed the Irish Sea to a land of strange words
and long names.
I crossed the Irish Sea to holy sites of saints long past,
like Seiriol, David, Winefride and Asaph.
I crossed the Irish Sea to pray with the saints of today
and for saints far away,
lighting candles, walking pathways to Holy Wells and
hearing the ring of old church bells.
(Source: Bill King, 2007)
12月29日 ALABAMA SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE DATES IN 2007ALABAMA PILGRIMAGE DATES IN 2007
PILGRIMAGE IN ALABAMAPLACES OF SECRET PRAYER IN ALABAMA Just as Alabama has become known for its famous Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, so might Alabama come to be known and appreciated for its own spiritual trail of Places of Secret Prayer. The concept of " Places of Secret Prayer" comes from Tom Davies' book, Landscapes of Glory: And English Pilgrimage. He writes that there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of Places of Secret Prayer just waiting to be discovered by people of faith. So, in 2004, I invited 30 religious leaders in Alabama to share their most meaningful spiritual places in the state of Alabama. From their list came twelve (12) sites of pilgrimage in Alabama. I visited each of the twelve sites during the summer of 2004 and wrote about each in a book recently published by Samford Univ. with support from a Lilly Endowment grant. Excerpts can be found on the web page: www.samford.edu/groups/rcpe/pilgrimage Copies of the book can be purchased through www.episcobooks.com This blog is designed for those interested in spiritual pilgrimage, either in the United States or elsewhere in the world. Spiritual pilgrimage is part of the DNA of every person of faith. Thomas Merton once wrote, "Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time..." Father Brad Milunksi of the Franciscan Pilgrimage Project says that pilgrimage is "an antidote to the heresy of being alone." Pilgrimage has been lableled as "praying with our feet". Spiritual travel or wandering is the essence of pilgrimage. So, this blog is one of the few places dedicated to sharing spiritual pilgrimage experiences with others. This blog also offers some new pilgrimage prayers I have written as well as some prayers from other sources. Your pilgrimage prayers are also invited for what is hoped to develop into a PILGRIM'S PRAYER BOOK. Pictures from historic places such as Jerusalem, Assisi, Rome and Canterbury, selected Native American sites as well as twelve sites of spiritual pilgrimage in Alabama are already located on this site. Pictures of pilgrims walking to sacred sites are welcomed to add to those seen below. Bill King |
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