Winter 2025: Keeping Time
The Winter 2025 issue of La Concha, a magazine published by American Pilgrims on the Camino with news, pilgrim stories, poetry, and more on the theme of “Keeping Time.”
Read MoreLetter from the Chair – Winter 2025
Winter 2025 letter from American Pilgrims on the Camino Board Chair Joe Curro, plus a summary of the October 2024 meeting of the American Pilgrims Board of Directors.
Read MoreFilm Review: The Way, My Way
Joe Curro reviews The Way, My Way, a film adaptation of Australian filmmaker Bill Bennett’s 2013 memoir of the same name. Curro writes that this enjoyable film will resonate with accomplished pilgrims and the merely Camino-curious alike.
Read MoreA Lesson in Compassion for Self & Others
A graffiti-scrawled message on a Camino waymarker challenges a woman to reconsider the rules for pilgrimage that seemed so clear and straightforward to her nearly a decade earlier and to find compassion for herself and others making their own way.
Read MoreA Pilgrim is Grateful
In this prose poem, Shoshana D. Kerewsky reminds us that a pilgrim is grateful even when they don’t feel like being so, and that gratitude is a practice.
Read MoreChapter Happenings – Winter 2025
A Winter 2025 compilation of American Pilgrims on the Camino chapter happenings.
Read MoreA Modern Means of Keeping an Ancient Practice
During Vespers in an ancient convent, a pilgrim on the Camino de San Juan de la Cruz is delighted to discover the townsfolk and friars in attendance using a smartphone app to follow the Evening Prayer. Ever since, on most days he accesses the app on his own phone to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, finding a modern means of keeping an ancient practice.
Read MoreA Pilgrim’s Obligation
Upon returning from her first Camino, a woman speaks with a priest who tells her pilgrims have only one obligation once they come home: they must talk about their pilgrimage, to share the experience. Fourteen years later and so many pilgrimages since, the self-described natural born storyteller is still talking about her Camino.
Read MoreBringing the Camino Home
A pilgrim offers advice for coping with the post-Camino disorientation and sadness some can experience upon returning home.
Read MoreA Pilgrim on the Way
In this poem song, Tom Friesen describes that particular feeling that is the Camino’s call.
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