Pilgrimages
Yet the Lord pleads with you still: Ask where the good road is, the godly paths you used to walk in, in the days of long ago. Travel there, and you will find rest for your souls. (Jeremiah 6:16)
Beginning in 2023, St. Michael’s will offer an annual inter-generational pilgrimage. Our intention is to cycle through domestic and international destinations. Pilgrims will purposefully engage the arc of the pilgrim’s journey and the Christian connection to pilgrimage, prior to departure, during our travels, and after our return.
All are welcome to learn more about both opportunities at an interest meeting at one of the following times:
October 16 at 7 PM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86216219403
October 17 at 10 AM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87473866606
“Gospel and the Politics of Race” Pilgrimage: June 19-26, 2023
Participants will journey through the story of the control and confinement of African bodies on U.S. soil from enslavement, through Jim Crow, to mass incarceration and police brutality. We will also investigate the parallel development of the political construct of “whiteness.” The journey will begin in Montgomery, Alabama, continue to Money, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, and end in Ferguson, Missouri.
Freedom Road Pilgrimages will guide our group through the stories of the oppressed from the roots of their oppression; its social, theological, and cultural justifications; its historic and current-day impacts; its present-day social and political outcomes; the spiritual formation necessary to navigate this direct engagement within The Narrative Gap, as coined by Lisa Sharon Harper. One of the unique features of working with Freedom Road is bringing together people of color and those of European descent to bridge the Narrative Gap.
Spring, 2024: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Participants will journey to Israel and visit sites where Jesus lived, died, and was resurrected. Jerusalem, Jericho, Nazareth, the Mount of Olives, Capernaum, and other locations will fill our ten-day itinerary. The stories of Holy Scripture will come alive in a new way both with our travels, and our intentional engagement of the spiritual experience. Pilgrims will be led by a native of Jerusalem, Canon Iyad Qumri.
