Film Review: The Way, My Way

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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.

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A Lesson in Compassion for Self & Others

lesson in compassion Joan Effertz winter '25 la concha.

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.

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A Pilgrim is Grateful

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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.

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A Modern Means of Keeping an Ancient Practice

Casa de Espiritual John Beddingfield winter '25 la concha

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.

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A Pilgrim’s Obligation

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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.

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Bringing the Camino Home

Bringing the Camino Home FMastini winter '25 la concha.

A pilgrim offers advice for coping with the post-Camino disorientation and sadness some can experience upon returning home.

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Continuing Community

John Baldwin continuing community winter '25 la concha.

Being active with his local American Pilgrims chapter helps a man find a sense of continuing community that allows him to relive his Camino experiences anew while helping others foster their own.

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