Holy Door opening

[Robert E. Spenger]

Rosina,

A slight correction please. The meeting planned for Santa Barbara next
March is a first. Recent meetings have been held in Williamsburg,, VA,
Columbia, MO, Santa Fe, NM, and San Francisco, CA, but I have never
heard of a previous meeting in Santa Barbara. I have also read reports
of meetings in Canadian cities as well.

I think that your suggestion is excellent, but I felt that the record
should be set straight as far as the Santa Barbara meeting is concerned.

regards,

Bob Spenger
rspengeraearthlink.net

Rosina Lila wrote:

> Hello you all,
>        The Correo de Galicia (one of Santiago's dailies) reports today
> that the Portuguese Way Association of Friends of Santiago has
> organized a 50 pilgrims walk that will end in Santiago on December 31,
> and will have the honor of participating directly in the Holy Door
> opening ceremonies.
>        Why don't we, Association of Friends of the Caiman in the USA,
> together with our Canadian brothers and sisters organize a similar
> effort?  For those of us who live in New York, or New England, or the
> Eastern seaboard, I suppose. It is easier, less expensive and far more
> comfortable to go to Europe than to go to California; yet it seems
> that the Association of Friends has met repeatedly in Santa Barbara.
> Couldn't we try to go to Santiago as a group?
>
>        Speaking of going, I myself will leave next Monday, the 22nd.
> to spend Christmas in Assisi.  Not only was Saint Francis the first to
> organize a Christmas celebration as we now observe the date, but over
> the last few years I've become rather obsessed with finding some
> convincing indicia that Saint Francis indeed made the pilgrimage to
> Santiago.  -The more I look into it, the more likely it seems.
>        Some good friends secured passage for me, and lodgings for four
> days over New Years in Santiago, right by the Cathedral, for the
> opening of the Holy Door and all.  Afterwards I will return to Italy
> to spend January roaming about the peninsula which is, blessedly free
> of crowds then.  It is also very cold..... I've never known low
> temperatures as punishing as those of Milan  in January.  But then,
> when else can you spend hours, literally, almost alone beholding
> Leonardo's Last Supper?
>        Of late almost every  Italian hotel has computer facilities (On
> some of them you can access, and address, e-mail through the
> television in the room); because of such convenience (and professional
> necessities) I'll be e-checking in frequently.
>        If there's anything in particular that I can look into for
> anyone of you, please let me know.
> .......Ah!.... the Santiago's newspapers  report that at least 3,000
> (three thousand!) celebratory Holy Year acts have been scheduled by
> the Xunta and the Archbishopric in the Casco alone, and that the
> opening (tearing down?) of the Holy Door will be accompanied by a
> mammoth fireworks production in the Quintana Plaza such as the one
> held in Obraidoro on July 25th.
>        Also, for the first time in decades and decades, the King and
> Queen will attend, as well as the Prince heir to the throne and his
> television anchorwoman fiancee.
> It looks like it's going to be a heck of a party............ But after
> being a regular in Seville during Holy Week, with the King, Queen,
> Prince and princesses often in attendance, and the largest, liveliest
> crowds of Seviilians imaginable,  the beginning of the New Holy
> Xacobean year in Santiago does not appear daunting.
> Warm regards from cold New York City,
> Rosina
>
>
>
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