Pilgrimages
All Saints Company weaves the diversity of religious tradition throughout the world and the centuries into a rich tapestry in its liturgies, looking especially to times and places when the church has been “popular” --meaning when it has shown a high degree of congregational participation, ownership, and folk tradition.
One of the ways of teaching that rich diversity is to lead pilgrimages to places where we can still explore and experience it:
In May Donald Schell and Daniel Simons will lead a group of pilgrims along the Pilgrims Camino to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. This pilgrimage route still carries over 100,000 pilgrims each year on what was in medieval times the most popular pilgrimage route in Christendom, after Jerusalem and Rome. Find out more about the trip…
Next January we will be traveling to Ethiopia to explore the rich tapestry of tradition, color, and popular participation in their Timkat ceremonies (Epiphany, the largest celebration of the year). Rick Fabian, founder of All Saints Company has been to Ethiopia numerous times, and says Ethiopia is the last place on earth where one can experience the texture of a unified Christian world, where faith permeates every corner of life . Find out more about the trip…
Next April we have been invited to Nanjing, China to present and demonstrate our liturgical style to seminarian students. This trip will also offer us the opportunity to work together with them to discover what symbols and folk practices and popular events they already possess and can incorporate into the liturgy to make it truly their own. The trip will include a tour of the province with Philip Wikeri, who is an expert on Chinese culture and Chinese Christianity. Find out more about the trip…
Space will be very limited on all these trips, so if you are interested we urge you to contact us immediately to check the status of the trip your interested in.
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