[DOWNLOAD] "Welcome Pilgrim" by Catherine Doherty ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Welcome Pilgrim
- Author : Catherine Doherty
- Release Date : January 07, 2014
- Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7241 KB
Description
Until her death in 1985, Catherine Doherty lived in a one-room cabin on a wooded island that juts out into the quiet Madawaska River, which flows by Madonna House in Combermere. Although poustinia cabins and a bi-ritual chapel for the community now stand on the island, when Catherine wrote this book she lived on the island alone. Often people came to her there, greeted by the sign “Welcome Pilgrim” as they crossed the bridge.
Following the tradition of her Russian people, she received anyone who knocked on her door as if they were Christ himself. They came to her in person, in dreams, and in the seasons of the year; they came in world events, and in letters. Each entered her heart as an honored guest. While sitting in her cabin, Catherine became a pilgrim herself, as she reached out to distant parts of the world by her love, concern, and prayer. As she put it:
“I have a very wise island. It teaches me, very simply, the tremendous truths of our faith. Practical people might deem these thoughts of mine the product of an overwrought imagination. Maybe so. But who will deny that, to a loving and listening heart, to a soul in love with God, everything speaks of the divine.
“I invite you to come to my island in your imagination and sit quietly here by my fireside. The curtains have been drawn back from my large window. Listen with your heart, as I do. We shall be silent, both of us. But I pray that each one of you will return whence you came, refreshed and more at peace, ready to meet the noises and confusion of daily life with a quiet heart.”