Online Chapel
Getting Ready for a Pilgrimage
Pilgrimages are not something new.
All over the world,
In all times and ages
Pilgrims have been visiting places
and persdns, temples and shrines considered to be holy.
The Old Testament urged people
to go three times a year to the temple in Jerusalem.
The New Testament informs us in Luke’s gospel
that Jesus went there with Mary and Joseph.
Going on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
was more than some tourism.
To make it a real pilgrimage
certain conditions had to be fulfilled.
One was supposed to have
‘clean hands and to be pure of heart’.(Ps 24::4)
The pilgrim had to walk in God’s ways (Ps.81:13),
and the pilgrimage had ‘to go to the heart.’
One of the best examples
of what a pilgrimage
can mean is in a story about the couple
walking from Jerusalem home to Emmaus.
After their Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem Jerusalem.
They had hoped that Jesus
would have been the Messiah
who would change the whole of their world.
They were talking with each other
about their disappointment,
when Jesus overtook them on their way
and began to talk to them,
explaining that He had come, indeed, to change
the whole of the world.
They only recognised Him,
when once arrived at their home.
he broke their bread with them.
It was then that they said to each other,
“Were our hearts not burning?
while He was talking to us on the road?” (Lk24:32).
You are better prepared
to have an experience like that!
Being with Him, together with all those others
Might change your heart!
