{"id":372,"date":"2010-12-02T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=372"},"modified":"2010-12-02T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T03:04:54","slug":"the-road-goes-ever-ever-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-road-goes-ever-ever-on-372.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Road Goes Ever Ever On"},"content":{"rendered":"

People die on the Camino de Santiago from age, illness, and accidents. The hazard I had to face was Spanish drivers. Late in the day, as the pilgrim enters a town he often forgets that city streets have cars in them, and steps off without looking, and\u2026. But nothing happened. Nonetheless, it was a sobering to see the memorials to pilgrims who had died on the Camino.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As the pilgrim climbs the path in the Pyrenees that leads from France ot Spain, he sees a stone cross, on which is written Je suis le chemin<\/em> \u2013 I am the Way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The pastor of San Juan de Ortega, near Burgos, has this meditation for pilgrims:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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If you have to die tomorrow, on the Camino, tell yourself that your life is completely fulfilled because you will be in a state of absolute search. And if you return home, tell yourself that you are still on the way, and that you will always be on the way, because it is a way that knows no end. Know this and never forget it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Forever we will experience Jesus as the Way to the Father, the Camino leads to Jesus, and He is himself the Camino, as the pilgrim is reminded a hundred time by crosses and inscriptions and graffiti \u00a0<\/span>– Yo soy el Camino<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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People die on the Camino de Santiago from age, illness, and accidents. The hazard I had to face was Spanish drivers. Late in the day, as the pilgrim enters a town he often forgets that city streets have cars in them, and steps off without looking, and\u2026. But nothing happened. Nonetheless, it was a sobering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387],"tags":[1166],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino-de-santiago","tag-camino-de-santiago","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}