This photo, taken in my cell at the monastery, sums up so well what this pilgrimage has meant for me. The cassock, reminding me that this has been a journey of prayer and spiritual growth. The stick, speaking of a physical journey (even if I was mostly travelling by scooter rather than on foot!). And the small bag for the handful of possessions you can actually bring with you, a sign of the simplicity with which you need to go.
If Chris Hemsworth is still reading this, I'd like to pitch for this to be the movie poster, although we'll have to work in Rocinante too, and the Hemster himself no doubt. I imagine what the studio execs will propose would be more like this poster I saw in the Don Camillo museum in Brescello:
But even though both I and Hemsworth can totally rock a cassock, we need to resist this kind of sensationalism. Right?
Ah Chris, behave yourself.
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