After a few days in Rome, I sometimes found it a challenge to be prayerful--traffic, people, Baroque churches, Roman/male statuary….Rome became a little too Roman Catholic for me. God seemed to be so immersed in the dogma of the church that my God was hard to find. I experienced a final example of this yesterday when I paid 5 Euro to take an audio guide tour of St. Peter’s. The commentary was more about church dogma than about the pieces of art that I was seeing. I gave up listening.
I understand that if it weren’t for the church throughout history, how would we know about Christ? But my God is a God who is still speaking, and so it is right that I am on my way to Assisi, where St. Francis literally spoke with a God, and where I can speak with God, too.
I arrived this morning and have been out and about. How beautiful is this? Very grateful. I feel like I'm walking the way of the pilgrim.
I understand that if it weren’t for the church throughout history, how would we know about Christ? But my God is a God who is still speaking, and so it is right that I am on my way to Assisi, where St. Francis literally spoke with a God, and where I can speak with God, too.
I arrived this morning and have been out and about. How beautiful is this? Very grateful. I feel like I'm walking the way of the pilgrim.
RSS Feed