To be a Pilgrim
By Totus2us
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Pilgrims tell their tales of pilgrimage: along Il Camino to Santiago de Compostela, to the Holy Land, Paray-le-Monial, Medjugorje, St Davids, to the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania and Chapel on the Rock in the USA. JPII at World Youth Day 1989 / JMJ Compostela: "Pilgrimage has a very deep spiritual significance.. In the world today there is a revival of the practice of going on pilgrimage, especially among the youth. Today, you are among those more inclined to experience a pilgrimage as a "way" to interior renewal, to a deepening of faith, a strengthening of the sense of communion and solidarity and as a help in discovering your personal vocation." Blessed John Paul II was a pilgrim to 129 different countries on 104 apostolic voyages: "Each trip made by the Pope is 'an authentic pilgrimage to the living sanctuary of the People of God... the Pilgrim-Pope feels at home everywhere, even 'among strangers'." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II, the Pilgrim Pope, to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.
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San Giovanni Rotondo - Pilgrim: Joshua -on Solemnity of the Ascension- Totus2us | Joshua was a pilgrim to San Giovanni Rotondo in Italy, where Saint Padre Pio lived and is buried: "I think what I remember most about the pilgrimage to San Giovanni Rotondo was seeing St Pio's cell and visiting the place where his body lay. It gave me a reminder of how even the saints, who have our devotions and we ask them to pray for us and intercede for us and we know that they are in heaven, it was a reminder that they were also human and facing the same challenges just as us, subject to the same weaknesses and temptations and challenges. So it gave me hope that, even though in the day to day struggles we can fall, sometimes it's difficult, I know that ultimately, by God's grace, that we can make it, that we can be saved, because the saints were in the same place as we are in." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Walsingham - Pilgrim: Paul -on Feast of the English Martyrs- Totus2us | Paul was a pilgrim to Walsingham in Norfolk, England: "It was a time of discovering who Mary is for me in my life at this time because sometimes my relationship with Mary takes a back seat. I found through the 3 days I was there to really enjoy a love for Mary again, to discover the rosary in more depth, to understand her ideas for the world and what her example can be for me today and for the rest of humanity." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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JMJ Madrid - Pilgrim: Tommy -on World Youth Day 2012- Totus2us | Tommy, who's 25 and from the USA / Poland, went with his wife for their honeymoon on pilgrimage from Poland to Spain for World Youth Day Madrid, staying with friends along their pilgrim way (they had been at their 1st WYD together with Papa Benedetto back in 2005 in Cologne, Germany): "I think the beauty of pilgrimages is that normally we go on pilgrimage through life and we never have enough time to pray and discover new things, or even the silence to hear God and speak to God. Perhaps I didn't have the silence to reflect upon different things because of all the partying with the youth, and the celebrational aspects of World Youth Day and the fact that the Pope is coming and that we are all one union, but I think we met that silence when we got to visit a priest in the south of Spain in a little, little town, so all my spiritual needs were really satisfied." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 1 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lourdes - Pilgrim: Frankie -on Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes- Totus2us | Frankie (from England) was a pilgrim to Lourdes in France: "As you get nearer and nearer to the Grotto, you can feel the peace, you can feel the quietness and I really do think Our Lady literally leads you by the hand to bring you closer to her son's heart in Lourdes. And I think it's a great place of challenge, but also as well in the silence realising what's important, what's worth living for and fighting for. I've been very blessed as well to witness young people go to Confession out in Lourdes, young people go to confession who haven't been for a number of years, and I've really seen them be touched by God's spirit of love, the Holy Spirit has really touched them in the Sacrament of Confession and I've really seen lives changed. I think it's to do partly with the powerful intercession of Our Lady, who invites people to come closer to the face of love, which is the face of Christ Himself as they encounter Him, not only in the Eucharist and in the Sacraments but in the face and love of other pilgrims." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 11 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paray-le-Monial - Pilgrim: Rachel -on Feast of the Epiphany- Totus2us | Rachel (from Scotland) was a pilgrim to Paray-le-Monial in France: "Each time that I've been to Paray-le-Monial (I've been there 3 times now) it's been a really blessed and a very deep experience in my faith journey. And I would say that this image of Christ and the revelation of His Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary is the image of Christ that touches me the most and that speaks to me the most: Christ's open heart that he shared with this saint and shared through her to the world, and the burning love that He has through His Sacred Heart and this desire, this thirst, for us to return some of that love that He so yearns for from us. Every time that I've been there, I've just experienced a great peace and just resting there with him, and just really experiencing Christ's heart and being with Him and receiving that grace, and experiencing this intense love that Christ has for each of us and for Christ's Church." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 6 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Medjugorje - Pilgrim: Kate -on Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe- Totus2us | Kate (from London) was a pilgrim to Medjugorje in Bosnia Herzegovina: "This time I knew that the Lord was calling me to something else, to that inner journey, that pilgrimage, that journey of the soul, that journey within. So my journey within started about 6 months ago and, having thought that I was going to be travelling around the world, I've realised that that was not what the Lord wanted, that was not where he was taking me. So I've been looking for little signs and asking him where he'd like me to go and one of those places was to Medjugorje ... Each day at Mass I would pray and ask Our Lady to guide me; because I wasn't on a formal pilgrimage, I asked her each day to guide me as to where I should go and each day I would meet different people and it would become very clear where she wanted me to go. So on one day I climbed the mountain of apparitions and met Our Lady in a very profound way on that mountain; and another day she called me to climb the mountain of the Cross, Krizevac, and again I journeyed with Our Lady up that mountain, meeting different pilgrims on the way but also meeting the Lord. As I met the Lord he would guide me and help me to discern the way forward in my life. This is what my pilgrimage at the moment is about, it's about discerning where the Lord wants me to go with my life, it's about asking him again to guide me to my life's purpose, to how he wants me to serve him and being in Medjugorje helped me a great deal to begin to seek that path, to discern what he was asking from me. Our lives are one big pilgrimage. The Lord asks us to seek his will in our lives, and this is what this time is for me - trying to get back on track, trying to find out and seek what it is he is calling me to do with the rest of my life. And to do that I need some quiet and some stillness, time for prayer, time for prayer of the heart, time to really hear the Lord speaking within." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 8 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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St Davids in Wales, with Pilgrimage 2000 - Pilgrim: Ruth - Totus2us | Ruth (from Britain) was a pilgrim to St Davids during Pilgrimage 2000: "It left me with a sense of 'gosh, what a reflection of life in general' it was. I'd left St David's feeling very overwhelmed by life in general really and what was this time going to include and quite what had I got myself into? All along the way, I was cared for and looked after, and the reality of God was very evident in the simplicity of every day and in the goodness of every day and just being alive. So, for me, it was a wonderful, wonderful experience of being a pilgrim." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 31 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Holy Land - Pilgrim: Father Tom - Totus2us | Fr Tom Dubois (from England) was a pilgrim to the Holy Land: "As I was walking I was often on my own and being able to reflect in silence on the places where Jesus had walked, where he'd talked, the places that had really shaped him. As I was walking I was meditating on different passages from the Bible, of Jesus walking along and his closeness to nature. I was struck by the beauty of the nature surrounding me, I was really struck by the beauty of the birds, of the Sea of Galilee, of all the very rich agriculture around. I think it really gave me an insight into Jesus's world, but more than that into his heart. into that sense of His journey, of the many journeys which He undertook, those physical journeys but also those journeys of the heart. I think Jesus always invites us to journey further, to journey deeper." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 19 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chapel on the Rock, USA - Pilgrim: Erin - Totus2us | Erin (from the USA) was a pilgrim to the Chapel on the Rock in the Rockie, USA: "There was this storm brewing over the mountains. If you can imagine these mountains receding into the darkness and the white statue of Christ shining out among them. The view was absolutely breathtaking. It was as if one were beholding the coming of Christ. And then lightning started to flash over the peaks, really bold flashes of lightning, and we just stood there from a distance and watched the beauty of the storm. This tremendous reality of God, present, acting, powerful, and there was one flash of lightning that came just over a mountain near to the statue of Christ and almost seemed to point down at him. And the only way that I can describe this moment, the experience of seeing that, was like hearing the words directly from Him: "Be still and know that I am God."" Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 15 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hill of Crosses, Lithuania: Pilgrim, Jill - Totus2us | Jill (from Georgia, USA) was a pilgrim to the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania: "It started out as a place with only a few crosses put there by Christians in Lithuania and then Russians came in and knocked all the crosses down. Then people replaced them and the Russians came back, and the people replaced them and finally the Russians gave up. To go there now and see every square inch covered with crosses, on an area about the size of a football field, is an objective testimony to love of God and the strength that God gives people under incredible circumstances." Music by Olen Ceari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pamplona to Santiago de Compostela on Il Camino in Spain - Pilgrim: Jonathan - Totus2us | Jonathan was a pilgrim on the Camino from Le Puy (in France) to Santiago de Compostela (in Spain), where St James the Apostle is buried. "Coming to the end of a long pilgrimage is a very rewarding sensation but it's not accompanied in a sense by lots of fireworks or excitements, it just has a general contentment that you have walked this great distance, and done lots of praying on the way and been to lots of Masses on the way and had lots of lovely conversations with all sorts of people on the way, but there was no particular sense of rejoicing because it had come to an end, which in itself was rather sad. So we spent 3 quiet days in Compostela; the weather was lovely and we got to know Santiago a bit and then we left in a bus early one morning and that was the end of it all." Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 1 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Le Puy-en-Velay to Pamplona, on the Camino way to Santiago de Compostela - Pilgrim: Jonathan -on Feast of St James- Totus2us | Jonathan was a pilgrim on the Camino from Le Puy in France, to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where St James the Apostle is buried. Total distance about 1000 miles. Music by Olen Cesari. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus2us. | 25 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Episodes |
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