Exploring Pilgrimage Throughout Christian history, pilgrimage has always featured highly.
However, pilgrimages are a lot safer now. Pilgrims used to walk miles
on their pilgrimage and risked many dangers. Nowadays, they are a lot
safer and pilgrims can now go by car, bus or plane.
Pilgrimage is a journey assigned by God, to a holy place or land. This
place or and land is where an event has happened that is relevant to
what the pilgrim believes.
Pilgrimages are made for many different reasons including as a way to
increase the pilgrim's faith, or to pray for something that is
important to them or their loved ones or just simply to find or
strengthen the pilgrim's relationship with God.
Pilgrimage experience has four strands to it, which are Revelation,
where truths are revealed to the pilgrim, Repentance, where the
pilgrim shows real sorrow. Cleansing both physically and spiritually
together healing physical, emotionally and the inner peace of
spiritual healing.
Pilgrims who travel to Medugorje on a pilgrimage go on the faith, that
if the pilgrim is physically or mentally afflicted they may come back
healed. They go to be spiritually strengthened and renewed. Many
believers have also been reportedly, to leave Medugorje converted.
Medugorje is a Christian place of worship or pilgrimage because of the
many apparitions of the Virgin Mary that have occurred there. On June
24 1981, The Virgin Mary appeared to a group of six teenagers just
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...f food and drink.
The commercialisation also creates many jobs. People who may not
otherwise be able to get jobs may be able to do so at the shops around
the pilgrimage Shrines.
I think that the commercialisation of pilgrimages helps and does not
reduce the value of the pilgrimage providing it remains proportionate
and away from the actual sacred shrine itself. There are too many
shops then it does risk reducing the value of the pilgrimage
experience. There has to be a balance achieved in order to keep the
spiritual value and focus of a pilgrimage whilst catering for the
needs of the modern pilgrim.
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