{"id":2941,"date":"2015-02-09T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2020-03-17T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:47:33","slug":"confraternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/confraternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Confraternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>n theory, each pilgrim who completes the Camino de Santiago is a member of the <em>Archconfraternity of Saint James the Apostle<\/em>. Originally founded in 1499, the aims of the Archcontraternity are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote honour of St. James the Apostle and encourage Christian pilgrimage to his Tomb.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that pilgrims are welcomed and looked after on their pilgrimage along the different ways leading to Santiago.<\/li>\n<li>Offer help so that pilgrimage might be a time of personal encounter and commitment, working with the Cathedral of Santiago to help with the care and attention given to pilgrims.<\/li>\n<li>Assist in the conservation of the religious-cultural heritage linked to Santiago and \u201cits ways\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/2015\/02\/09\/confraternity\/patch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2945\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"APOC patch\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch-134x150.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch-913x1024.jpg 913w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch-165x185.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch-891x999.jpg 891w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch-150x168.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/patch.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>Now, I say every pilgrim is a member &#8220;in theory&#8221; because the Archconfraternity has <a href=\"http:\/\/peregrinossantiago.es\/eng\/archconfraternity\/what-is-the-archconfraternity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officers and council<\/a> at the Cathedral of Santiago, and they&#8217;ve developed statutes and such that most pilgrims don&#8217;t know anything about, or would probably much care for if they did.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Archconfraternity is also an umbrella organization for various <a href=\"http:\/\/peregrinossantiago.es\/eng\/archconfraternity\/confraternities-around-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spanish and international<\/a> Contraternities of Saint James. Probably the most famous of these in the English-speaking world is the UK-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csj.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Confraternity of Saint James<\/a>. I&#8217;ve ordered books from them, and they proved extremely helpful to me.<\/p>\n<p>Enlisting on the rolls of any of these associated Confraternities enrolls you officially in the Archconfraternity. Again, in theory. Who knows how any of this works in practice?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a long way to burble on by way of introduction to say that Francine and I have (finally) officially enlisted in the American Confraternity &#8211; <a href=\"www.americanpilgrims.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APOC<\/a> (American Pilgrims on the Camino).<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, in a sense, it&#8217;s partially because we&#8217;re pilgrims, we&#8217;ve walked the Camino, and we&#8217;ve become evangelists for it.<\/p>\n<p>And really, we got our first <a title=\"Credencial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/2013\/03\/16\/credencial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credencials<\/a> from them, so it&#8217;s only fair that we should give back a little.<\/p>\n<p>Really, though, it was prompted by a question put to us this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We took the weekend off &#8211; at a beach cabin on Vashon Island. Last year, we spent our anniversary there, but this year it was booked, so we were there this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We attended Mass at the local parish, Saint John Vianney, with some friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/2015\/02\/09\/confraternity\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2949\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rembrandt: Peter's mother-in-law\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7-165x258.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7-638x999.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7-150x235.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rembrandt-peters-mother-in-law7.jpg 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>The Gospel reading from Mark contained this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"drop\">Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon\u2019s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up.<\/p>\n<p>Then the fever left her and she waited on them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The priest gave an intense homily, focused primarily on that part of that reading. Isn&#8217;t it funny how those who are helped &#8211; those who are healed &#8211; feel compelled to give back.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Peter&#8217;s mother-in-law was healed of the fever, and she immediately began to wait on Jesus and His apostles.<\/p>\n<p>Like recovering addicts, who often reach out to help those still suffering the worst of their addictions.<\/p>\n<p>Like converts, who in their zeal preach, sometimes with words but often with their lives of devotion.<\/p>\n<p>The priest asked us to remember a time and place where we were healed &#8211; and he challenged us to bring people to that same place.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately thought of my baptism, and my subsequent life of working for the Church, first as an employee for the Catholic schools, and now as a volunteer in liturgy and catechesis.<\/p>\n<p>And then, a fraction of a moment later, the Camino flooded into my mind, and I knew that at some point we would be hospitaleros.<\/p>\n<p>Francine has often spoken of this, which is for her a natural outgrowth of her Benedictine spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>I was less sure. Now I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it will only be for a week or a season, maybe it will be something more &#8211; who can know God&#8217;s plan?<\/p>\n<p>But one way or another, today we took the first step towards that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1829\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/2014\/04\/04\/one-year-ago-the-long-climb\/8729341964_267204832d_b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1829\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1829\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8729341964_267204832d_b.jpg\" alt=\"Approaching the Church of Our Lady of Eunate\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8729341964_267204832d_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8729341964_267204832d_b-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8729341964_267204832d_b-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Approaching the Church of Our Lady of Eunate<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In theory, each pilgrim who completes the Camino de Santiago is a member of the Archconfraternity of Saint James the Apostle. Originally founded in 1499, the aims of the Archcontraternity are: Promote honour of St. James the Apostle and encourage Christian pilgrimage to his Tomb. Ensure that pilgrims are welcomed and looked after on their pilgrimage along the different ways [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-pilgrims-on-the-camino","category-ruminations","category-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}