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Christian pilgrimage Christian pilgrimage is the procedure (or process) by
means of which a pilgrim acquires the whole, or a part of, the identity of
Christ. In other words, Christian pilgrimage is designed to make the pilgrim
Christ-like, so that she can act as Christ. The 1st phase of Christian Pilgrimage purges
non-Christian action (or behaviour), in other words, sin. The 2nd phase of Christian Pilgrimage serves
to acquire wholly (or upgrade to completeness) the Christian identity
(actually the identity of Christ), or parts of it. The 3rd phase of Christian Pilgrimage applies
the whole (or part) of the Christian identity. The true Christian act, namely
the act that touches an ‘other’, and which not only makes that other real but
also transmits Christian identity, thereby changing the ‘other’ with that
identity, is called the act of atonement. Touching the ‘other’ as Christ would, thereby
transmitting His identity (i.e. His whole functions schedule), is the true
Eucharist. The Christian pilgrimage is over when the Christian
pilgrim ‘touches’ as Christ, thereby making the ‘touched’ really as Christ. |