You will return to the everyday. You will return to your community. How will you be changed? How will you change your community? How will the pilgrim’s experience remain with you tomorrow? The next day? Weeks, months, and years later? How will you support the next group of pilgrims or become the face of hospitality in your community?

Lift up your prayers and intentions to God and to the saints for their intercession. Take joy in having reached a holy place through your dedicated efforts and through the sufferings incurred on the road.

The road to Emmaus is MCP’s model for pilgrimage because we hope that each pilgrim gets to walk with Christ and become aware of His word setting their hearts on fire.

It is one thing to be prepared for a pilgrimage. It is another to become that pilgrim. The transition into the liminal space is made with a single step out of the house and into the wider world.

Modern Catholic Pilgrim (MCP) likes to use a definition of pilgrimage from the German theologian Iso Baumer’s definition: “an individual, or, more often, a group, sets forth on a journey to a chosen place in order to ask God and the Saints – at that particular place – for aid in a variety of concerns. Afterwards, one returns to one’s everyday world.”