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Pilgrimage – Christine Valters Paintner

November 22, 2025

“A pilgrimage is a special kind of journey, one taken to a holy place with the hope for an encounter with the sacred and the intention of being changed by what happens there and along the way. We don’t go on pilgrimages to return the same person.”
 

—Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, The Love of Thousands: How Angels, Saints, and Ancestors Walk with Us Toward Holiness
 

What inner or outer pilgrimage have you taken? In what ways did the experience change you?  
 

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One Comment
  1. anniegoose's avatar

    I like to watch the programme on the Japanaese News Channel where people go to an island and walk from temple from temple. The journey takes several weeks. Some people have done that annual pilgrimage for over 20 years.

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