[Gocamino] [saintjames] Re:Two Sellos per Etapa for a Compostela

[Mary V. Wallis]

HI Rosina - am curious to know what (or who) your first paragraph (below) 
refers to. I haven't received anything negative. There is lots of discussion 
about the decisions on sellos but I'm not picking up anything repeatedly 
provocative.

Mary


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Subject: Re: [Gocamino] [saintjames] Re:Two Sellos per Etapa for a 
Compostela


>
>
> It is simple and easy to avoid?receiving negative and would-be provocative 
> e-messages?from those who seem to be compelled to send them repeatedly. 
> Just lock the e-address of such senders out of? your computer.? I have 
> done so and no longer receive them. I think we can all distinguish between 
> honest and civil dissenting comments, which are welcome and refreshing, 
> and those pointedly anti-something and subliminally meant to attack. If 
> such messages?do not provoke the reactions hoped for the incentive to send 
> them may cease.
>
> Meanwhile..... the fares to be charged by the Vatican-run Mistral airline 
> will reportedly be below cost, since the enterprise will be 
> church-subsidized.? You can get more information about it by going to the 
> Vatican's official Web-site :? www.vatican.va?? which is in Italian, 
> English, German, Portuguese, Spanish and French.? They have something 
> called an "internet office" for communications where one can send requests 
> for information.
>
> It?does not seem likely that the?150 million religious pilgrims in 
> 2006?mentioned by Cardinal Riani were oinly Catholics. That would mean 
> that more than one in every ten of us makes a religious pilgrimage. But 
> when one thinks of the 10 or 15 million that make the pilgrimage to Our 
> Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City each year, and the millions who travel to 
> Saint Peter in Rome, it might be possible.? Curiously, the millions of 
> pilgrims who do go to the little Brasilian town in the mountains to visit 
> Nuestra Senhora Aparecida ?were not mentioned by the Cardinal.? I was 
> there once (it is kind of hard to get to), on a regular mid-week day,?and 
> was bowled over by the size of the Basilica ?and the crowds and crowds 
> without end.
>
> The other airline that will begin to land in Lavacolla this month, 
> Pyrenair, is based in Huesca and specializes in what we would call 
> "charter" flights which, they have said, will concentrate in carrying 
> religious groups to Santiago, and other religious places of interest, at 
> the lowest cost possible.
>
> Hugs!
>
> Rosina
>
>
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