A Dream of Passing Fire
This poem by Katherine January resonates with a sense of continuity and common experience that connects pilgrims across the centuries.
Becoming a Camino Family
A 64-year-old woman on her first Camino in France forms a special bond with two 26-year-olds from Belgium and Germany. They stayed in the same places, shared meals, and looked out for each other. She didn’t know the expression then, but they’d become a Camino family.
A Sense of Awesome Wonder
The prayerful hymn “How Great Thou Art” carried and comforted a woman as she experienced an overwhelming sense of unity with God and humankind through the joy of nature’s tranquil beauty along the pilgrim’s path.
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.”
Letter 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.
Film 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.
A 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.
A 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.
Chapter Happenings – Winter 2025
A Winter 2025 compilation of American Pilgrims on the Camino chapter happenings.
A 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.