<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hello,<BR>
I'd like to ask:<BR>
How are the reading pilgrims for the pilgrims' Mass selected? Do they volunteer? Must they be Catholic? <BR>
I am a regular reader at Mass in my (Episcopalian) church and I've read with much interest the plans to have non-Spanish-speaking pilgrims read at Mass in Santiago.<BR>
I know that occasionally Anglican priests have participated in the officiating of the pilgrims' Mass in Santiago, which, in my view, is commendably ecumenical on the part of the Archdiocese; and now I am delighted about the proposed active inclusion of all pilgrims regardless of language.<BR>
After placing my life, literally, exhileratedly and, I think, other-than-humanly, bicycling up and down <I>twice</I> from Roncesvalles to Santiago, I'd love to think that at the finish I might just do at the Santiago Cathedral what I do in my own neighborhood church around the corner.<BR>
But, as so many have written here, isn't that what the Camino signifies? The spiritual and emotional circle of life with no beginnings and no ends? A significance beyond the obvious? <BR>
That is what the Camino has been to me, and what will again be, I am sure, next August.<BR>
Ultreya<BR>
Liz</FONT></HTML>