Summer is the time for modern travel, and the time too for modern pilgrimage. Right now several of my parishioners have been at World Youth Day in Krakow, and another group have been in Lourdes. Both are excellent destinations; I have visited both, and want to do so again one day.
What is it about pilgrimage, and what should one take away from the experience of place? At this point one might like to think of the famous quote from TS Eliot’s Little Gidding, about coming to a place where prayer has been valid. What exactly this means, I have no idea - it strikes me that prayer is valid everywhere. People can pray in any place, and they do.
