One Million Steps To Freedom: The Camino To Santiago
March 2011 “Leave your country, your family and your father’s house and go to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1) I’m kneeling in the sanctuary of Thurles Cathedral and the above line of Scripture comes back to me – God calling Abram, sending him to an unknown place. In this sanctuary I was ordained 31 years ago. In this Cathedral I sat waiting for Confession in the warm half-light of Saturday nights as a student. God has used Thurles in the past to call, to draw me to Himself. And I feel He is doing it now, again on this March evening 2011. It’s as if my boat has already been launched from this familiar shore and is moving in the direction of a new horizon that is unknown to me. “Leave…and go…” – the call of Abram has always enthralled me, found deep resonance in that nomadic part of my spirit. The mystery of the unknown that seduces the wanderer. My mother often called me Siddhartha after the character in the novel by Herman Hesse. She saw in me the searcher, the wander