{"id":775,"date":"2012-09-20T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=775"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:39:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:39:33","slug":"you-never-know-who-you-might-meet-on-the-camino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/you-never-know-who-you-might-meet-on-the-camino\/","title":{"rendered":"You Never Know Who You Might Meet on the Camino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">F<\/span>rom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/bishops-recall-way-of-st-james-as-chance-to-trust-in-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic News Agency<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"drop\">Members of the Catholic clergy from around the United States hiked 100 miles of an ancient pilgrimage this summer, relying on God to give them strength to endure suffering along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M., Fr. Gerry Baker of  Owensboro, Ky. and Fr. Don Kline of Phoenix accompanied auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley of Denver along the medieval \u201cEl Camino de Santiago\u201d in Spain from Aug. 21 to Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Capture.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Capture.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Catholic Clergy Camino\" width=\"374\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Capture.png 374w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Capture-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bishop Conley said he was inspired to make the trek when he walked with a group of young people along the Camino last summer, but was unable to hike most of it because of a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink of all the saints that have made that pilgrimage,\u201d he told CNA Sept. 7. \u201cAll these saints down through the centuries walked the same path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Cebreiro, Spain, the site of a Eucharistic miracle which caused a statue of the Virgin Mary to bow her head, was the \u201cperfect place\u201d for the men to begin their journey, Bishop Wall said.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning each day just after six in the morning with prayer, hiking until about 2 p.m. and then celebrating the pilgrim&#8217;s Mass in the evening, the men completed as many as 24 miles in a day to reach their final destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatience\u201d and \u201chumility\u201d were among the chief lessons Fr. Baker took away from the journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a challenge for a group of middle-aged men,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/bishops-recall-way-of-st-james-as-chance-to-trust-in-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story with video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m just over six months from my start date!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Catholic News Agency: Members of the Catholic clergy from around the United States hiked 100 miles of an ancient pilgrimage this summer, relying on God to give them strength to endure suffering along the way. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M., Fr. Gerry Baker of Owensboro, Ky. and Fr. Don [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ruminations","category-thom","tag-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}