[Gocamino] [saintjames] El Camino items

Tue Jan 25 07:17:48 PST 2011

One of my South African trained hospitaleras served at Santo Domingo in
August (and another in Najera) and she was confused by the Confradia members
insisting that the hospitaleros collect more donations from the pilgrims.
On the one hand we teach our hospitaleros that the donativo box has nothing
to do with them and that they must not tell pilgrims how much to put in the
box (even if they ask) and then you have the Confradia telling them to make
the pilgrims put more in the box!

On 25 January 2011 16:46, Rosina <Blaroli at aol.com> wrote:

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> Hi Sil,
> From what I know after the costs to complete and outfit the building by the
> horses fountain in Platerias and to finish the renovations to the "Casa del
> Dean" where the pilgrims' office is located, are calculated, a decision will
> be made about the charges in the albergues. There appears to be a strong
> sentiment that charging a pilgrim to stay in an albergue "goes against the
> spirit". The alternative word for albergue used in Spain is "refugio"
> (refuge) and charging some one for it is an oxymoron, both linguistically
> and in essence.
> The albergues run by the Cistersian nuns in Santo domingo de la Calzada and
> so many other towns in the Camino were overflowing throughout 2010 and they
> subsisted in "donativos" throughout. That seems to be the argument.
> Hugs!
> Rosina
>
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> From: Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com <sillydoll%40gmail.com>>
> To: saintjames <saintjames at yahoogroups.com <saintjames%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 1:12 am
> Subject: Re: [saintjames] El Camino items
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> Thanks Rosina - always sharing snippets of news with your fellow
> peregrinos.
> he Galcian albergues upped the charge from 3 euros to 6 euros a couple of
> ears ago. Are they thinking of going back to 3 euro or will they go back
>  o being donativo albergues?
>
> On 25 January 2011 02:52, Rosina <Blaroli at aol.com <Blaroli%40aol.com>>
> wrote:
> >
>
> Hello you all,
> Being that the Camino traffic is slow, and that I'm confined home by a
> ghastly flu, and by an outside temperature in New York City of about 5F (20
> BELOW zero centigrade?), I thought I'd pass on some Camino/Santiago news:
> Sivia Rozas developed and administered (brilliantly, as we all must agree)
> the Press and Commnications office of the Santiago Archdiocese since 2003.
> A
> Galician, she was born in Lugo in 1975; studied journalism in USC
> (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), graduated summa cum laude
> therefrom and then obtained a graduate degree in Theology from the
> (gorgeous) Pontifical university in Salamanca. After being offered every
> prestigious press post throughout Spain she has just informed that she will
> join the Hijas de Jesus religious order seeking to become a contemplative
> nun. On the 29th of this month she will begin her novitiate at the Berraspe
> convent/college in Madrid. Ms Rozas says that the closing of the Holy Door
> coincides with the change in her life: "One stage closes to begin another;
> one has to look for one's door and find the key to it in the heart". She
> adds "In life it is necessary to find out what one wants, what is happening
> in one's soul, how to focus one's existence in the short time of living,
> and
> how to find contentment in one's interior day by day existance". The
> religious order that she has chosen precludes communication with the
> outside. (Sigh!) I have read many of the articles that she wrote, and, for
> one, I sure wish that she had written a book before going into silence.
>
> During the 2010 Holy Year there was a small alms collection box at the
> Cathedral marked "for ether upkeep and maintenance of the church building";
> apparently the 10 million or so people who visited the Cathedral were not
> niggardly and the funds donated have been, and will continue to be, used in
> the creation and rehabilitation of many albergues and Camino-related
> edifices and facilities. A portion of those funds (about 1.5 million Euro)s
> will be used for the exhibitions and cultural celebrations that will
> accompany next April's observance of the 800th anniversary of the
> consecration of the Santiago Cathedral by Alfonso IX. The building by the
> horses' fountain in Platerias is being entirely rebuilt and will house the
> Pilgrims' Museum, Special Camino photographic and artistic exhibitions, and
> will handle the overflow of Pilgrims from the Pilgrims' office. Because of
> the momentous celebrations of the eight hundredth anniversary, the number
> of
> pilgrims and visitors to Santiago this year is not expected to diminish
> significantly. Also, the discontinuance of the 3 Euros charge at the
> non-private albergues is being contemplated.
>
> Pilgrims who are members of the Archconfraternity, or who have visited the
> ever-helpful Archconfraternity office in Quintana square, will surely
> remember its ever-helpful secretary, Susana. A psychologist by profession,
> and the Archconfraternity's "secretary" (administrator) by choice, she
> married last April and expects to become a mother next April.
> And so it goes.
> Also, the initial steps to form the first Santiago Confraternity in the
> United States are proceeding apace.
> Hugs!
> Rosina
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