My Spiritual Journey

Although I may have travelled all the roads, crossed mountains and valleys from East to West, if I have not discovered the freedom to be myself, I have arrived nowhere.

We started the day greeted by playful dogs of the manor who entertained us with their antics.

We are beginning to feel the end of the journey coming soon.

One whole side of my Credencial del Peregrino is filled with 26 stamps and I already have three stamps on the other side!

We left the manor house at 7:30 and began our Camino where we left off in Melide.

Each day we had three meals.

One of my Camino companions, Jennifer, gave me four of her LMNT electrolyte powder packets to help me stay hydrated.

Yesterday evening the village of Portomarin where we are spending two nights began celebrating a Fiesta dedicated to Jesus Christ.

Today we finally reached the 100 km marker!

We started our walk at 8:00 instead of 9:00, hoping to beat the heat of the day, but we were outpaced by the sun.

We received a stamp for our Camino passport at our hotel, then loaded our baggage into the van and headed to our starting point for the day at Rabanal del Camino, at the 243.8 km marker.

First thing in the morning we toured the San Isidro museum connected to the hotel.

On our first full day in León after breakfast my friends Mary and Bob Wiese and I walked around Roman walls of the plaza next to the Hotel Real Colegiata San Isidro where we are staying for three nights, then we attended Mass in the Basilica de San Isidro.

Last fall I received permission from our Leadership Team to make a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago part of my Jubilee Retreat from August 29 – September 14 this year.

O Maria, Mother of the Church, you welcomed the Word with contemplative silence and bore Him into the world with courageous love.

Peoples’ needs are changing in response to a quickly evolving context.

At the session on Family and Childhood: Between Poverty and Sexual Violence a panel of presenters from Mexico spoke about the vulnerability that comes with living in poverty that makes children easier prey for perpetrators of physical and emotional violen…

At the UN session on The Role of Youth in Digital Transformation: Towards Inclusive Growth and Social Justice, members of the permanent mission of the Republic of Korea to the UN and the Blue Tree Foundation gave examples of youth in Korea and other parts…

How do we bridge the growing gap between generations and communities?”

Women and children are the most impacted by homelessness but there is currently inadequate documentation of women’s land rights and ownership of land worldwide.

With the acceptance of a ‘growth at all costs’ mindset, the fulfillment of basic human needs has been made contingent on individuals’ contributions to a profoundly unfair economy.

Challenges to the free flow of information internationally are not presented by the state, but by quasi state platforms.

United Nations Representatives gave updates on their country’ progress on meeting the social development goals by mainstreaming social considerations across development frameworks.

At the Opening Session of the 62nd Commission on Social Development (CSocD62) at the UN Headquarters in New York an international panel gave an overview of how we are doing to meet the UN’s social development goals.

Through an atmospheric river and 42 mph winds I arrived safely on JetBlue in New York City for the 62nd Session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD62) where we are discussing the importance of social justice, social policy reform, and digital…