Pentecost: A Pilgrimage to the Roots
Every journey, both inward and outward, are inherently revelatory in essence. Each journey makes us meet our finitude and transience vis-à-vis. For Christians, who consider Christ their sojourner, every journey then ought to be a pilgrimage. Rumi, the Islamic mystic has remarked, “The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.” Journey is not obligatory but a Divine mandate – the cost of discipleship. Vagabond, recluse, migrant, refugee etc. are some of the common adjectives used to qualify Christ who was indubitably an ardent wanderer. Thus journeying becomes the Spiritual destiny of his disciples. Pentecost is an invitation for one such pilgrimage which we as a faith community need to make – a pilgrimage to our roots. Pentecost is an event when the Church realized her source of existence, her breath, her being – the Spirit. J