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.
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.
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.”
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.
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 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.
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.
A Winter 2025 compilation of American Pilgrims on the Camino chapter happenings.
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.
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.