I couldn’t sleep last night, and so decided to watch my preview link to Santiago: The Camino Within again. It’s a film that has one of those one-day nationwide theater appearances today (Tuesday, March 28). I’ve never actually been accused of being a film critic, but I am a human who longs for peace this Lent, and Santiago is a beautiful instrument for that.
It’s about the famous pilgrimage walk in Spain to the remains of St. James. But it’s really about taking a time-out for that which is most important — the something more of faith.
Here’s the trailer:
I talked with the narrator of the film, Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin on Friday, along with three other bishops who prayed the pilgrimage just this summer together – Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Neb., and James Wall of Gallup, N.M. I have confidence the conversation will be edifying whether or not you go to theaters today or ever walk the Camino.
And more information is here.
If you need help this Lent — like I do — I you will be grateful. I am.