My Camino day 24 June 8 2016 Carrion to Calzadilla de la Cueza

Had a fantastic and spiritual afternoon and evening. I attended the vespers prayer hour, hosted by one of the nuns from the albergue, 8 of us attended, they were the Catholics , I was the heathen. We all shared our spiritual reasons for walking the Camino, very emotional for all of us. We all shared from our innermost spirit. The sharing was followed by prayers and song. Very special to have had a priest from Georgia in the group, he and the nun both said prayers for each of us, and we all prayed together. At 8pm I went to the town church to observe  evening  mass. Mass was all in Spanish , the father gave blessings , drank wine, gave more blessings, drank more wine, said a prayer, drank more wine , asked us to all greet each other, we all shook hands , and exchanged hugs and smiles, a very nice connection , the father drank more wine. The father then gave a short sermon, and had more wine. Communion was given to all the Catholics. More wine. The father then asked all the pilgrims to come to the altar to receive prayer from the father, he placed his hands on the head and made the sign of the cross on our foreheads. He asked for a show of hands what our home country was, he called every country on the planet, very impressive. The whole mass was amazing and spiritually special to me. Today we had a short 18 km walk that started at 6:30 am due to the heat forecast. By the time we arrived in Calzadilla the temp had risen to 88 degrees. The walk in the meseta, is much like walking in Nebraska, Kansas , Texas, Oklahoma. Toto we are still in Kansas. Just miles and miles of rolling plains with no shade along the way. Done walking by noon and having a beer, will be up early for a cool morning walk tomorrow. Here are a couple of photos.

The thought for the day; No event has any power over you but only who’ve you give to it.

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