letter from the "parish"

[Greg Collins]

Lisa

You may (definitely) be able to get around this be joining one of the
organisations such as the Confraternity of St James www.csj.org.uk who issue
their own 'pilgrim passports' which are substitutes for the credencial
issued at St Jean or Roncevalles.  I think they issue them mainly for those
who want to start from Le Puy or wherever in France BUT they are accepted in
Spain.  My research, I've not done 'el camino' yet, indicates that some
pilgrims don't get issued with the credencial in Spain if they fail to
convince the issuer of their 'spiritual' aims.  Seems a bit small minded to
me, and I'm a practising Catholic, spirituality is much bigger than religion
but 'religious folk often have a problem seeing this!

Hope this helps
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Forman" <FormanLSaAOL.COM>
To: <GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu>
Sent: 30 March 2001 18:51
Subject: Re: letter from the "parish"


> Kind souls,
> first of all, I am of Jewish heritage.  I do not go to church, belong to a
> parish or a synagogue for that matter.  I am planning this journey for a
> truly spiritual reason, which has nothing to do with organized religion.
> Will I be denied a credencial in St Jean or Roncevalles?  Are these
"rules"
> becoming more strict that they were in all the books i have read so far
about
> this pilgrimage?
> thank you
> lisa