http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2009/08/17/i-am-a-convert-and-am-struggling-with-the-idea-of-praying-to-mary-can-you-help-part-iii Seek Him - Find Him - Follow Him Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2009/08/17/i-am-a-convert-and-am-struggling-with-the-idea-of-praying-to-mary-can-you-help-part-iii/comment-page-1#comment-356 Graziella María Raluy Zierold Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:31:27 +0000 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=1243#comment-356 Wow, thanks for this. I grew up Catholic, then I stopped considering myself as belonging to any religion when I was a young teenager, and then came back to the Church when I was about 16. I used to live really close to the Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica (I´m Mexican). Our Lady played an important role in my conversion. And yes, I´ve made personal pilgrimages there (if only for a few blocks!) and then I made the Student´s Cross Easter pilgrimage to Walsingham, in England, with a mixed group of Catholics AND Anglicans. That was amazing! There were students from different countries as well. Google Walsingham if you haven´t heard about it. Only after that 8-day pilgrimage I came to appreciate the pilgrims to Guadalupe! Wow, thanks for this. I grew up Catholic, then I stopped considering myself as belonging to any religion when I was a young teenager, and then came back to the Church when I was about 16. I used to live really close to the Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica (I´m Mexican). Our Lady played an important role in my conversion. And yes, I´ve made personal pilgrimages there (if only for a few blocks!) and then I made the Student´s Cross Easter pilgrimage to Walsingham, in England, with a mixed group of Catholics AND Anglicans. That was amazing! There were students from different countries as well. Google Walsingham if you haven´t heard about it. Only after that 8-day pilgrimage I came to appreciate the pilgrims to Guadalupe!

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