Ron Tecson Post # 12 " A trip that changed her life" 4/21

I was reading Ann Matter's article in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality,entitled Lourdes: A Pilgrim After All. In March of 1997, following almost a year of treatment for cancer, Ann Matter went to Lourdes for the first time. A devout Catholic, Matter did not seriously thought that she would go to a healing shrine like Lourdes but her experience of illness and healing changed her status from non-believer to a believer, from a tourist to a Pilgrim. This article is actually composition of her reflections from her first trip to Lourdes, France. She candidly described everything from the moment she arrived in Lourdes until the last night before her departure. Pilgrimages definitely do change life. It's not a matter of if it will change your life but how much it will change your life. I think its the fact that when we are doing a pilgrimage, we are away from all the distractions that we have in our lives preventing us to meditate and find our purpose and direction in life.