Sunday SGS part. He left for Lourdes, one of the many pilgrimages every year to leave our country that little town in the Pyrenees, where many years ago (it was 1858) to a young girl appeared to be the Madonna.
It 'the fifteenth time I come to Lourdes on pilgrimage, like the previous birth as ambulance man, I put at the service the sick, the needy, those who need help. Like all the other times I find that I mainly have to be helped.
again this year, partly by train, despite Trenitalia. Because few people know it and nobody has ever really said, but to go to Lourdes every year odyssey. In Italy the trains (it is clear that regularly pay their bills) are after all, even after the goods, or as a precedent on the tracks, and as care of the carriages, and as consideration by the Railway. This year later, after the discovery of ticks, Trenitalia had seen fit to cut 30% of all trains destined for pilgrimage (For industrial action, possibly for free, I'm sure they found them anyway), thank goodness it has cut less. But that's another story ...
Going to Lourdes is not an act of piety, not an experience or for pious women devoted acolytes. There are "normal" people (assuming that the term has any meaning normal) young people, adults and seniors who are healthy or sick. All with an extraordinary zest for life. It 's a pilgrim people, human and spiritual. A people who use the heart and mind to face the reality of everyday life and that "sacrifice" a week of their holidays to go there, at the foot of the Virgin, to ask for even harder to live your life with all the unforeseen incidents that it entails.
For one week you will find no new post, but there are some here. If you're curious and you want to live, albeit only a few photos and written a bit with us make us a tour of the pilgrimage.
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