The Journey: A Guide for the Modern Pilgrim - Softcover

Scaperlanda, Maria; Scaperlanda, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082941617X ISBN 13: 9780829416176

Publisher: Loyola Press, 2004

Synopsis

Michael and María Ruiz Scaperlanda summon travelers to the ancient practice of pilgrimage. Today, as in centuries past, a journey can become a spiritual experience rich with meaning and insight. The Journey shows modern pilgrims how their travels can become rewarding encounters with the sacred. 

This collaborative effort by Catholic journalist and her law-professor husband draws on the couple's extensive travels, including a European pilgrimage they bravely undertook with their four children in the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year 2000. In chapters written alternately by each, the Scaperlandas offer practical advice, personal reflection and stories from journeys taken individually and together.  Whether traveling through life or on a tour bus, they ask readers to consider the difference between being a tourist and a pilgrim.

Drawing deeply on their own experience of consecrated travel, the Scaperlandas guide readers into the heart of the pilgrim experience. Much of their advice answers questions like: What are the most promising pilgrimage destinations? How can families go on pilgrimage? How can vacations and tourism be transformed into a journey of pilgrimage? They also give special attention to practices and attitudes that can make all travel sacred.

Their depth of understanding enables readers to connect the inner and outer journeys—whether on trails halfway around the world or on the well-worn paths of home.

About this title

About the Author:

MarÌa Ruiz Scaperlanda is an award-winning Catholic journalist and author with degrees from the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma. Her books include The Seekerís Guide to Mary (Loyola Press, 2002) and Their Faith Has Touched Us: The Legacies of Three Young Oklahoma City Bombing Victims (Sheed & Ward, 1997).Michael Scaperlanda is the Gene and Elaine Edwards Family Chair in Law at the University of Oklahoma. His is co-editor of the three volume book, Immigration and the Constitution (Garland 2001) and is finishing Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law. Maria and Michael reside in Norman, Oklahoma, with their children.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collaborative effort by Catholic journalist Maria Scaperlanda and her law-professor husband, Michael, draws on the couple's extensive travels, including a European pilgrimage they bravely undertook with their four children in the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year 2000. In chapters written alternately by each, the Scaperlandas offer practical advice, personal reflection and stories from journeys taken individually and together. Whether traveling through life or on a tour bus, they ask readers to consider the difference between being a tourist and a pilgrim. One, they observe, is immersed in sights and activities while the other is always on the look-out for God. In their own meanderings, the Scaperlandas obviously favor the God-seeking approach. They propose that all travel, because it disturbs daily routines, presents an opportunity for heightened awareness of God. Michael illustrates this in particular in his chapter on "Making All Travel Sacred," in which he tells how to incorporate visits to monasteries or churches into business trips and how to make family vacations "blessed events." Despite the heavily Catholic flavor of this guide, anyone who loves to travel and wants to make it a spiritual experience will find this a helpful companion. Catholic families and others interested in planning pilgrimages to holy sites also will benefit from the Scaperlandas' vast experience, which is further expanded upon in their appendices of resources.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 082941617X
• ISBN 13: 9780829416176
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 257