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 2008 Donald Schell and Daniel Simons led 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.
In January 2009 we took a group of 20 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 .
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