[Gocamino] Fw: postings from Rosina

[Donald Schell]

Rosina,

I really like the spirit of your description of the varieties of  
liturgy in the Roman Catholic Church.  And I was moved at the  
description of the pilgrim mass at Roncesvalles.  My daughter Maria  
and I didn't make it there - after our late start from St. Jean, we  
got badly lost, and arrived in Roncesvalles quite exahausted just as  
people were leaving the church.

Three times on the Camino and several pilgrims' masses at various  
churches along the way later,  I hold those I have had the privilege  
of attending like a memory bouquet of wonderful flowers.  Each  
different and unique, sometimes very, very simple, sometimes touching  
or beautiful in surprising ways, and yet each the same.

Re-visiting Ship of Fools also reminded me that my congregation in  
San Francisco had a mystery worshipper from Ship of Fools describe a  
visit in 2000 -

  http://ship.saintsimeon.co.uk/Mystery/2000/197Mystery.html

and that in turn reminds me of a visit to New Skete Monastery in  
Cambridge, New York, an Orthodox monastic community with a renewed  
Eastern liturgy where they're reintroducing processions of the whole  
congregation (hints of a mini-pilgrimage?) that Christian worship had  
in the early centuries.

Thanks for tender, devout, and touching musings.

love,
donald