Spring Field-Trip Series
Wiesbaden Unitarian Universalists is pleased to announce our Spring Field Trip Series, an Outing once-a-month to various sites in our area of interest to people of many faith traditions. Each month, usually on a Saturday, we will explore a different site, experiencing their cultural and natural beauties, placing their history in context, and enjoying each others' company.
The inspiration for this Series may be found in Phil Cousineau's The Art of Pilgrimage. Phil was a guest speaker at the EUU Fall Retreat of 2001, just after 9/11, and it was his belief that our travels and the curiosity that prompts them can be transformed.
"I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage."
--Phil Cousineau, from THE ART OF PILGRIMAGE
And so…our Spring 2014 schedule!
Saturday March 29, 2014 Worms, Germany
Romanesque Cathedral, Site of the Nibelungenlied, the Trial of Martin Luther, oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe
Saturday April 26, 2014 Mainz, Germany
Gutenberg Museum, Invention of the Printing Press, Mainz Cathedral
Saturday May 10, 2014 Bingen/Rüdesheim/Disibodenberg Germany
Hildegard of Bingen's first convent, Museum, and the Benedictine Abbey
Saturday June 14, 2014 Höhenhof, Holzbach Germany
Largest outdoor Labyrinth in Europe
Click on any event above to see more information.
The inspiration for this Series may be found in Phil Cousineau's The Art of Pilgrimage. Phil was a guest speaker at the EUU Fall Retreat of 2001, just after 9/11, and it was his belief that our travels and the curiosity that prompts them can be transformed.
"I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage."
--Phil Cousineau, from THE ART OF PILGRIMAGE
And so…our Spring 2014 schedule!
Saturday March 29, 2014 Worms, Germany
Romanesque Cathedral, Site of the Nibelungenlied, the Trial of Martin Luther, oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe
Saturday April 26, 2014 Mainz, Germany
Gutenberg Museum, Invention of the Printing Press, Mainz Cathedral
Saturday May 10, 2014 Bingen/Rüdesheim/Disibodenberg Germany
Hildegard of Bingen's first convent, Museum, and the Benedictine Abbey
Saturday June 14, 2014 Höhenhof, Holzbach Germany
Largest outdoor Labyrinth in Europe
Click on any event above to see more information.
