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TO BE A PILGRIM

The idea of pilgrimage has a certain romance, but it actually emerges from a robust and demanding source – the intentional, and often challenging, journeys made by people of faith to significant places. Pilgrim, beware! The habit of pilgrimage has been well known for as long as faithful people have looked for a deeper encounter with God, whether travelling to the Promised Land, to Jerusalem, to the places of medieval pilgrimage or to a nearby cathedral in the present day. There is a deep and liberating compulsion in huge numbers of people ‘to be a pilgrim’.