{"id":5650,"date":"2014-10-13T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2014-10-13T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:30:12","slug":"jpic-ed-bulletin-no-16-october-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/13\/jpic-ed-bulletin-no-16-october-november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"JPIC-ED Bulletin No 16 – October – November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bulletin<\/a>Pilgrimage Spirituality. A Journey into Liminarity<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
The feast of Eid-ul-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), the feast par excellence for the Muslims (Eid-al-Kab\u00eer), in remembrance of the Sacrifice of Abraham, was celebrated on the 4th<\/sup> October 2014. Thousands of Muslims from all over the world made a pilgrimage (al-hajj) to fulfil one of the five pillars of Islam. What a blessed coincidence that it fell on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, a saint for the promotion of interreligious dialogue!<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Today, many believers living in multi-faith contexts are searching for a spirituality that can help them to \u2018come closer\u2019 to their fellow human pilgrims and in a special way to believers of other faiths with whom they share so much in common. Pilgrimage spirituality which is taught and practiced in different religions could be a major contribution to such a spirituality promoting inter-faith peaceful and constructive co-existence.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Speaking about pilgrimage, the anthropologist V. William TURNER says: \u201cA pilgrimage liberates a person from the obligatory everyday constraints of status and role, also from our personal stories, our personal triumphs and defeats, and we are enabled to become ourselves again in a new model of human brotherhood. It is a journey into LIMINARITY, where we will acquire new insights about life, about mission, about God, others and ourselves.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Is this \u2018journey into liminarity\u2019 not the journey that Abraham, our father in faith, obediently took in response to <\/em>God\u2019s command as narrated in the Bible: \u201cLeave your country, your family and your father\u2019s house for the land I will show you.\u201d (Gen 12: 1)? Isn\u2019t it the same journey we have to take in order to build a \u2018new model of human brotherhood\u2019 in our globalised indifference and violence?<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Nnyombi Richard, M.Afr<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n
Content of the Bulletin: Click on this link<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
News from the Society and Elsewhere<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
World Day of Peace 2015<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
The UN of Religions (4th<\/sup> Sept. 2014)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
African Interfaith Initiative on Post-2015 Development \/ United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
First text – PDF file<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/address>\n
Second text – PDF file<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/address>\n
Synod on the family (5th<\/sup> \u2013 19th<\/sup> October 2014)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
Visit of Pope Francis to Turkey (28th<\/sup> \u2013 30th<\/sup> November 2014)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n
Lire le Bulletin en Fran\u00e7ais en cliquant sur :\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Spiritualit\u00e9 du P\u00e8lerinage. Un Chemin vers <\/strong>la<\/strong> \u00ab\u00a0Liminarity\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/address>\n
\"Faith<\/a><\/address>\n
\"Statement\"<\/a><\/address>\n
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